Contents:

The Naming of World War II, September 11, 1945 --

Hitler's Decree on Command of the Wehrmacht, February 4, 1938 --

The Munich Agreement, September 29, 1938 --

The Western Guarantee of Polish Independence, March 31, 1939 --

The Italo-German Alliance, May 22, 1939 --

The German-Soviet Treaty of Non-Aggression, August 23, 1939 --

The German Ultimatum to Poland, August 30-31, 1939 --

The British Declaration of War on Germany, September 3, 1939 --

The German-Soviet Boundary Agreement, September 28, 1939 --

League of Nations' Expulsion of the U.S.S.R., September 14, 1939 --

Hitler's Directive for the Occupation of Denmark and Norway, March 1, 1940 --

A British Offer of Anglo-French Union, June 16, 1940 --

The Franco-German Armistice, June 25, 1940 --

Establishment of the Vichy Dictatorship, July 10, 1940 --

Authority of Nazi Ambassador to Vichy France, August 3, 1940 --

Hitler on Punishment of Offenders in Occupied Territory, December 7, 1941 --

Roosevelt on the United States Landings in North Africa, November 8, 1942 --

"Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat," May 13, 1940 --

Hitler's Explanation of the Soviet Invasion, June 21, 1941 --

The "Destroyer-Bases Deal," September 2, 1940 --

Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech, January 6, 1941 --

The "Lend-Lease Act." March 11, 1941-August 21, 1945 --

The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941 --

The German-Italian-Japanese Pact, September 27, 1940 --

The Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 --

Roosevelt's War Message on Japan, December 8, 1941 --

United States Declaration of War on Germany, December 11, 1941 --

The Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943 --

The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers, October 19-30, 1943 --

The First Cairo Conference, November 22-26, 1943 --

The Tehran Conference, December 1, 1943 --

The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945 --

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

The Fascist Grand Council's Ouster of Mussolini, July 24, 1943 --

The Italian Armistice, September 3, 1943 --

The Private and Political Testaments of Hitler, April 29, 1945 --

Assumption of Power by Doenitz, may 1, 1945 --

The German Surrender, May 7-8/9, 1945 --

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, April 6, 1945 --

The Surrender of Japan, September 2, 1945 --

Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, June 22, 1944 --

Directive to Eisenhower on German Military Government, April, 1945, and October 17, 1945 --

The Italian Peace Treaty, February 10, 1947 --

The Japanese Peace Treaty, September 8, 1951 --

End of War with Germany, October 19, 1951 --

The Austrian Peace Treaty, May 15, 1955 --

The Trial and Punishment of "War Criminals," August 9, 1945.