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NEWSREEL: Be On Alert 11.27.1941
As talks broke down, Admiral H. E. Kimmel and Major General W. C. Short received a warning from Washington about the potential for a Japanese attack, prompting them to heighten vigilance on November 27. Hawaii was considered an easy assignment, and the prospect of war seemed remote. Major Short was more concerned about the risk…
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NEWSREEL: Day of Infamy Speech
This item is President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s annotated draft of a proposed message to Congress requesting a Declaration of War against Japan. The speech was dictated by Roosevelt on December 7, 1941 in the hours following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The handwritten notations are Roosevelt’s modifications and corrections to the typewritten first draft.…
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NEWSREEL: 12.11.1941
Source: “US Declares War on Germany.” Shamokin News-Dispatch, 31 Dec. 1941, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/shamokin-news-dispatch/134909747/
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Christmas Eve Message to the Nation
Fellow workers for freedom: There are many men and women in America- sincere and faithful men and women””who are asking themselves this Christmas: How can we light our trees? How can we give our gifts? How can we meet and worship with love and with uplifted spirit and heart in a world at war, a…
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NEWSREEL: 01.06. 1942
President Roosevelt has called for production of 60,000 planes, 45,000 tanks and 20,000 antiaircraft guns. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces to Congress that he is authorizing the largest armaments production in the history of the United States. Committed to war in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had to reassess its military preparedness, especially in light of…
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Roosevelt is Selected As Time’s ‘Man of the Year’
Source: “Roosevelt Is Selected As Time”™s ”˜Man of the Year.”™” The Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 1942, p. 43. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer/134975772/
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FDR Orders All Aliens Regiser Again Over US
President Roosevelt orders all aliens within the U.S. to register with the government. The focus falls on Japanese Americans who will be moved into internment camps, as it is feared they will aid the enemy. Source: “Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942).” National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, 24…
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The Government’s Subcommittee on Nursing
Source: Haupt, Alma C. “The Government”™s Subcommittee on Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, Mar. 1942, pp. 257”“263. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415771?origin=JSTOR-pdf
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U.S. At War: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
In a few minutes the referee would take the center of the ring to announce the fight. The champion was not too apprehensive. He had got himself into fairly good condition and the challenger had only half his weight and half his reach. The champion stood in his corner, still talking to his seconds, and…