On Wednesday, April 1, 1942, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt issued “Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry” that they “will be evacuated from the above designated …
In the days and weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor, pressure mounted from politicians on the West Coast. They demanded that “something be done” …
On June 22, 1941, Socialist gang leader Hitler attacked Socialist gang leader Stalin and the usual gang war broke out. Before that date, remember, the …
On Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941, the Japanese launched a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor that decimated the US Pacific Fleet and forced the United …
Modern History Project Editor’s Preface The famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, Jr. made this speech on September 11, 1941 to the America First Committee of Des Moines, …
Until his death in July 1996, Adolf von Thadden was a prominent and respected figure in German “right wing” or “nationalist” (conservative) circles. note 1 In …
Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed sacrificing 6 cruisers and 2 carriers at Manila to get into war. Navy Chief Stark objected: “I have previously opposed this …
Three years after this speech, on January 11 of 1944, FDR gave his State of the Union address, where he expanded on what he saw …
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term. …
The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret …
