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26. The War Refugee Board
led by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to ... two members of his staff met with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to establish a ... for refugees in United StatesIn a press conference, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... establish the War Refugee Board. Roosevelt tasked this organization, nominally headed by the
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27. The United States: Isolation-Intervention
the director of the National Recovery Act, one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s early New Deal ... cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain that the British military was in serious trouble ... In July 1940, the Democratic Party nominated President Franklin Roosevelt for an unprecedented third ... could not carry any arms intended for war zones. At Roosevelt’s request
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28. Charles E. Coughlin
the United States. Coughlin and Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Franklin D. Roosevelt. Coughlin believed that only Roosevelt could pull the United States out of the ... Power—to persuade his followers to vote for Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential elections. Roosevelt was ... . Once president, Roosevelt appeared to ignore Coughlin's contribution to his successful bid for the
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29. The Movement to Boycott the Berlin Olympics of 1936
Roosevelt President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not become involved in the boycott issue, despite ... only member in the 100-year history of the IOC to be ejected. Franklin D ... propaganda purposes. Roosevelt continued a 40-year tradition in which the American Olympic Committee operated
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30. Pearl Harbor
? On December 7, 1941, a date that President Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed would “live in infamy,” the ... United States and elsewhere. On October 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned that the “very ... “epidemic of world lawlessness.” Roosevelt feared that Japanese expansionism would not end in China, but ... fighting failed. Roosevelt considered a joint Anglo-American naval blockade of Japan, particularly in
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31. Lend-Lease
announcement to the US Congress, in September 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Minister Winston S. Churchill to "give us the tools and we shall finish the job," President Franklin D ... Roosevelt proposed a bill to allow the United States to "manufacture, sell, lend, transfer, lease, or
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32. The United States and the Holocaust, 1942–45
Franklin D. Roosevelt told Americans: “We ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the ... United States entered the war. In January 1944, President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board, which ... . In February 1942, two months after the attack at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an
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33. Japanese American Relocation
Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned a secret study of the “Japanese situation” on the West Coast, to see ... if people of Japanese descent would pose a threat in the event of war with Japan. Roosevelt ... .” Executive Order 9066 On February 19, 1942, President Franklin ... Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized military commanders to designate zones “from which
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34. Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Former President Theodore Roosevelt recommended Perkins for the position of executive secretary of the ... Her appointment was not without controversy. When Roosevelt announced that Perkins was his choice ... Austria (called the Anschluss) in March 1938, she helped convince President Roosevelt to combine
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35. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
journal. In 1928, his long-time friend and then governor of New York, Franklin ... D. Roosevelt, appointed Morgenthau as ... chairman of his agricultural advisory committee. In 1933, following Roosevelt's election to the ... Depression and disagreed with certain aspects of Roosevelt's “New Deal,” he was extremely loyal to Roosevelt
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36. Stephen S. Wise
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's “New Deal.” Unlike most Reform rabbis and congregants at the time ... established in Geneva in 1936 to fight Nazism. A friend and supporter of President Roosevelt, Wise attempted ... to use his influence to urge Roosevelt to actively oppose the Hitler regime. He also tried to win ... Roosevelt's support for unrestricted Jewish emigration to Palestine and the admission of more Jewish
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37. The "Shahnameh" in World War II Anti-Nazi Propaganda
heroes—Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom, Franklin Roosevelt, president of the ... escorted by a group of three Allies–Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. Learn more about the Shanameh
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38. War Refugee Board: Background and Establishment
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board (WRB), tasked with the “immediate ... in Congress, in the mainstream Jewish community leadership, and in the Roosevelt administration ... “Rescue Resolution,” challenged Roosevelt to establish a commission to devise and enact plans to rescue ... created. Internal Pressures within the Roosevelt Administration As public pressure
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39. Past Presentations, Roundtables, and Other Events
Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. [audio file="{filedir_2}CAHS ... President Roosevelt and the Early News of the Holocaust (2014) Richard Breitman, distinguished
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40. Jacqueline Mendels Birn
Franklin after Franklin Roosevelt. Their situation became more precarious after the Allies landed in
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41. American Foreign and War Correspondents
Franklin D. Roosevelt. After four months in prison, Hottelet was released in exchange for a German ... close advisor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who hired her to travel the country and write about
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42. The "Night of Broken Glass"
At a press conference on November 15, 1938, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces the Nazis ... President Roosevelt condemns Kristallnacht ... violence, President Roosevelt recalls the US ambassador to Germany.
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43. The Evian Conference
ethnically undesirable. These quotas remained in place even after President Franklin D. Roosevelt, responding ... Roosevelt chose not to send a high-level official, such as the secretary of state, to Evian; instead, Myron ... C. Taylor, a businessman and close friend of Roosevelt's, represented the US at the conference
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44. Breckinridge Long
presidential candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt (whom he knew from the Wilson administration) and served as ... September 1939, President Roosevelt asked Long to return to the State Department. He became an Assistant ... be security threats. He convinced President Roosevelt to limit the number of names the advisory ... Roosevelt to appoint a commission to create and implement plans to rescue European Jews. Long monitored
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45. FDR campaigns for NY governor; Morgenthau family home movies
.S. Secretary of Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was largely responsible for the creation of ... Franklin D. Roosevelt swimming in the pool at the Morgenthau residence. Henry III holds up fish ... groom, Dick, lived. 00:16:01 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt sit in a boat. Workers and ... in their boat, and stop to make speeches. Franklin D. Roosevelt sits in a chair in a garden outside
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46. Risks of Motherhood during World War II
started to gain weight. My parents named him Franklin because Franklin Roosevelt was their only hope of
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47. Upton Sinclair
relinquish his socialist views and support the presidency of Franklin D ... Roosevelt; but his prominence as a socialist writer in the 1930s induced the Nazis to include his works in
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48. Wagner-Rogers Bill
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to support a child ... Eleanor Roosevelt ... For the first time in her six years as first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt allowed reporters to directly ... should.” She also referred to the bill as a “wise way to do a humanitarian act.” Despite Mrs. Roosevelt
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49. Voyage of the St. Louis
passengers on the St. Louis cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... asking for refuge. Roosevelt never responded. The State Department and the White House had decided not to ... percent of Americans opposed relaxing restrictions on immigration. President Roosevelt could have issued ... the gains of isolationist Republicans in the Congressional elections of 1938, and Roosevelt
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50. Immigration to the United States 1933–41
Though Franklin D. Roosevelt liberalized the instruction, many Americans ... Germany had the second highest allocation of visas: 25,957 (27,370, after Roosevelt merged the German and