World War II
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Overview Essay
Politicians and Diplomats
- Daniels, Josephus
- Dewey, Thomas Edmund
- Hopkins, Harry Lloyd
- Hull, Cordell
- Ickes, Harold
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Stettinius, Edward Reilly, Jr.
- Stimson, Henry L.
- Truman, Harry S.
- Tully, Grace George
- Vandenberg, Arthur
- Wallace, Henry Agard
- Willkie, Wendell Lewis
- Rankin, Jeannette Pickering
Events, Battles, and Initiatives
- Atlantic Charter
- Bretton Woods Conference
- D-Day
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bombing of
- Iwo Jima
- Leyte Gulf
- Pearl Harbor
- Manhattan Project
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert
- Potsdam Conference
- Yalta Conference
Military Leaders
- Donovan, William Joseph
- Doolittle, James Harold
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- King, Ernest J.
- Leahy, William D.
- MacArthur, Douglas
- Marshall, George C.
- Murphy, Audie
- Nimitz, Chester
- Patton, George S, Jr.
- Stilwell, Joseph
The Home Front
- Incarceration of Japanese Americans
- Medicine: From the 1870s to 1945
- Science: From 1914 to 1945
- Serviceman's Readjustment Act
