World War II

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

The Avalon Project: World War II Documents

  Documents For The Study Of American History - check out the sections on "Between the Wars" as well as the WWII section.

  HyperWar: Diplomatic and Political Documents of WWII 

  The British Bluebook

  French Yellow Book Table of Contents and Preface 

  Government Publications from WWII 

  Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt

  The Speeches of Winston Churchill 

  Quotes - Winston Churchill  

  Conferences of WWII

   The Avalon Project: Conferences During World War II

    The Avalon Project: A Decade of American Foreign Policy 1941-1949 

Military Resources: World War II 

  Paperless Archives World War II 

  Rutgers Oral History Archives of WW-II 

   The United States Navy in WWII: Primary Source Documents

  Washington Conferences (1921 - 1922) 

The Geneva Protocol of 1925 

  Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy: 1933-39 (extracts) 

Roerich Pact: Protection of Artistic & Scientific Institutions & Historical Monuments, 1935

German-Japanese Agreement and Supplementary Protocol, Signed at Berlin, Nov. 1936

THE NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1937

U.S. Historical Documents Archive -- The Neutrality Act of 1937

Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt: Quarantine the Aggressor, 1937

The Avalon Project: The Munich Agreement - Documents

The Avalon Project : Munich Pact 9/29/38

Neville Chamberlain, Peace in Our Time

  Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, August 2, 1939

Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the U.S.S.R. August 23, 1939 

The Avalon Project: Germany's Invasion of Poland

   The Avalon Project: Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941 

The Avalon Project: Franco-German Armistice : June 25, 1940 

   The Avalon Project: Summary of the Three-Power Pact Between Germany, Italy, and Japan, Sept. 1940

  Speeches by FDR: The Arsenal of Democracy, 1940 

The Avalon Project: Tripartite Pact and Associated Documents

    The Avalon Project: The British Bluebook

    FDR, The "Four Freedoms" Address to Congress, Jan. 6, 1941

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms

The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941

FDR's "A date which will live in infamy" speech before Congress, Dec. 8

   Report of the Secretary of the Navy to the President on Pearl Harbor 

The Avalon Project: Declarations of a State of War with Japan, Germany, & Italy

  The Avalon Project: The Washington Conference 1941-1942 

WRA Exhibit -- Text of Executive Order No. 9066 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, February 19, 1942 - authorizing Japanese Internment Camps.  More info on Internment Camps in America can be found HERE.

   Master Lend-Lease Agreement, February 23, 1942

    The Quebec Conference between FDR and Churchill(Aug. 17-24, 1943)

CASABLANCA CONFERENCE, Feb. 12, 1943

  CASABLANCA CONFERENCE COMMUNIQUÉ

CAIRO CONFERENCE, November 1943  

  FDR: The 'Fala' Speech, 1944 

  PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945 

ASSUMPTION OF POWER BY DOENITZ, MAY 1, 1945

The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945

German Surrender Documents of WWII 

   PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Japanese Surrender Documents

The Japanese Surrender Document 

Emperor Hirohito's Receipt of the Surrender 

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report(European War)

United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report(Pacific War)

  The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources

   Featured Document: The Marshall Plan 

  Marshall Plan Folders 

  Records and Research Relating to Holocaust-Era Assets - more primary documents on the Holocaust available on my  Hitler and Holocaust pages.

The International Military Tribunal(Nuremberg)

  NARA: War Crimes

  "Name Files" released in response to the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act 

  TIME Magazine: World War II Archive Collection 

  Historic Government Publications from World War II

  From the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of Congress) 

SOUNDS, FILMS, IMAGES & PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE WAR

Cinemocracy - propaganda for the war effort: Free Movies Download & Streaming

  Virtual Radio - World War II Multimedia Database - part of Welcome to the World War II Multimedia Database

  World War II Photo / Contact Gallery 

  Historic Government Publications from World War II

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum: Photos of World War II 

  Generally Speaking-S/Sgt Bill Heller - Photos 

  Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page 

  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page 

  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page - Hitler 

  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page - Germany in WWII 

  A Day in Radio - September 21, 1939 

  Radio Broadcasts 1939-1943

   Picturing the Century : A World in Flames 

  Images - WWII Nurses in Movietone Newsreels

  Picturing the Century : Post War America 

  World War II Timeline pictures 

  WWII artwork of Ed Pranger 

  World War I & II Pictures, Posters 

  TIME Magazine: World War II Archive Collection 

  Images - WWII Nurses in Movietone Newsreels

  Films from the Home Front

    Military-WWII-Nazi-Soviet-Propaganda Videos-International Historic Films

  World War II Videos - Allies, German Footage, Propaganda Film.