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Material Type: | Document |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Gilbert Ryan; Leonard C Schlup |
ISBN: | 9780765621078 076562107X 9780765604408 076560440X |
OCLC Number: | 704679891 |
Accession No: | (DE-599)HEB420558403 (OCoLC)704679891 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-546) and index |
Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 600 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction; The Dictionary; Chronology of Memorable Events, 1940-1949; Appendices:; Wendell L. Willkie: Acceptance Speech; Joseph Stalin, Broadcast to the Peoples of the Soviet Union; Japanese Foreign Minister Togo Shigenori's Address to the Imperial Diet; President Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Message to Congress; Adolf Hitler's Declaration of War Against the United States; Benito Mussolini's War Statement; Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War; Wendell Willkie, from One World; The Yalta Agreement; President Harry Truman's Announcement of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima; Justice Robert H. Jackson's Opening Speech for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials; Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech; President Harry Truman on the Truman Doctrine; George C. Marshall on the Marshall Plan; President Harry Truman's Inaugural Address; Eleanor Roosevelt on Human Rights; Judge Learned Hand on the Spirit of Liberty; American Historical Association Presidential Addresses; About the Contributors; Selective General Bibliography. |
Series Title: | Gale virtual reference library |
Responsibility: | editors James G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup |
Abstract:
Offering readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades, this is a historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points readers to three sources that treat the subject in depth.
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