Essay
World War II
World War II was the central event of the twentieth century. It involved all six major continents, all three of the great...
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Essay
Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial figures to emerge from the Cold War. He participated as a soldier, scholar, and statesman in many of the most significant policy debates of the period. He acted as an intellectual,...
Essay
Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Posters on the American Home Front
World War II posters helped to mobilize a nation. Inexpensive, accessible, and ever-present, the poster was an ideal agent for making victory the personal mission of every citizen. Government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an array of poster images, linking the...
Essay
Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), one of the most admired women in American history, acted as first lady from 1933 until 1945, longer than any other presidential...
Glossary Term – Person
Franklin D. Roosevelt
![Declaration of War against the United States and Britain [in Japanese], December](http://gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/aggregate-208x148/content-images/01415p1-2.jpg "Declaration of War against the United States and Britain [in Japanese], December 8, 1941. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)")
Primary Source
World War II: Commemorating Pearl Harbor, 1941
Teaching Resource
Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Overview
Since Japanese people began migrating to America in the mid-nineteenth century, there has been resentment and tension between Americans and Asian immigrants. In California at the turn of the century laws were passed making it difficult for Japanese to own land in America, become naturalized, or to even migrate to America. By the 1920s California had banned almost all immigration from Japan, and laws made interracial marriage illegal. After World War I and the failed attempts of America to create and join the League of...