FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech: crafting a call to arms
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Issues concerning the draft of Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech, which he delivered to Congress on Dec 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, HI, are examined. Topics include his dictation of the speech to his secretary, the manner in which he replaced the words "a date which will live in world history" to "a date which will live in infamy," and how the final speech was lost and then found in 1984 among Senate archives.
Publication Name: Prologue
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0033-1031
Year: 2001
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Getting the message out: The poster boys of World War II
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The Office of War Information (OWI) during World War II produced and distributed thousands of posters to persuade the American people to support the war effort, to conserve the nation's vital resources, to buy saving bonds, and to not reveal possible national secrets. To get these messages out, however, the federal government did not turn its own employees or to its military but mobilized the Boy Scouts of America.
Publication Name: Prologue
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0033-1031
Year: 2005
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Semper fidelis, code talkers
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Issues concerning the use of the Navajo language as a secret code in World War II are examined. Topics include the use of the code in the Pacific theater of war between 1942 and 1945, the recruitment of Navajos, and the adaptation of the Navajo language to communicate military terms such as "dive bomber" and "fighter plane."
Publication Name: Prologue
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0033-1031
Year: 2001
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