CONTENTS
  

  American History PicturePack

Collection I:
World War II and the
Beginning of the
Cold War, 1941-1960
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
  

PicturePack I01: The U.S. Enters World War II ● Map, the United States in 1941 ● "To Hell with Hitler" badges at 1941 inauguration ● Roosevelt opening first selective service lottery ● Japanese Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura ● The wreckage of the Naval Air Station in Hawaii ● A ship burning during attack on Pearl Harbor ● Japanese bomber attacking "battleship row." ● Workman reads about the Pearl Harbor attack ● Donald M. Nelson (1888-1959) chairman of WPB ● Building a medium tank ● Boeing Aircraft Company plant in Seattle ● Housing for workers at aircraft plant in Hartford ● Woman brazing an automobile casting in Buffalo ● Nursery for workers at bomber plant in Maryland ● Lockheed aircraft plant employed 23,500 workers ● James Byrnes of Office of Economic Stabilization ● The line at a rationing board ● Rationed tires ● Victory gardeners at work in Forest Hills, NY ● A poster asking for farm workers ● Students pose with jeeps their war bonds paid for ● Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) ● Red Cross worker pours a drink for a soldier ● Motion picture industry role in war effort ● Bob Hope and Frances Langford entertain troops ● Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ● The original atomic pile ● Hanford Atomic Plant in Richland, Washington ● J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) ● The Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico ● July 16, 1945, first atomic bomb detonated  
 

PicturePack I02: Civil Rights During World War II ● Walter White (1893-1955) ● African-American worker manufactures casings ● Former waitress works on building of Liberty ship ● Alleged zoot suit rioters ● Czech coal miners in a Hazleton, PA, mine ● Sign in a Japanese-American grocery ● Americans of Japanese ancestry being relocated ● Noon mess line at camp for Japanese-Americans ● Japanese-American soldiers fire at German snipers ● Willie and Joe ● A formation of WACS in Italy, 1945 ● African-American recruits in training ● Benjamin O. Davis, Jr (b. 1912) ● Navajo Indians serving "coding" in radio unit  
 

PicturePack I03: World War II 1942-43 ● The Doolittle raid, April 1942 ● American army, Philippines surrenders to Japanese ● Yorktown receives a direct hit ● American Guadalcanal land offensive, Aug. 1942 ● Curtiss C-46 returns from "over the Hump." ● Chinese resistance was hampered by civil war ● Lt. General Joseph Stillwell (1883-1946) ● Column of Axis prisoners in African desert, 1942 ● Generals Patton and Eisenhower, Tunisia, 1943 ● Shells explode near a U.S. cruiser ● FDR and Churchill met in Casablanca, 1943 ● A depth charge said to have sunk German submarine ● An infantry soldier receives blood plasma ● U.S. troops disembark at Salerno ● Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) ● African-American troops of the 92nd Division ● Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at Teheran ● B-24 Bomber production at Ford plant, Feb. 1943 ● Prayer service in England before air strike ● B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber mission over Europe ● B-24 Bomber formation after raid on Ploesti ● A B-17 damaged by a German rocket, July 1943 ● A stacked-down echelon of P-51 Mustang fighters ● The ruins of Darmstadt, Germany ● A U.S. soldier in Cologne, 1945 ● LCI with troops awaits assault signal on D-Day  
 

PicturePack I04: D-Day to Nuremberg ● Panorama of D-Day invasion across English Channel ● American troops go ashore at beachhead in France ● Allies moved inland after heavy fighting ● American infantrymen & armor pass dead German ● The Dumbarton Oaks conference concerning the U.N ● FDR speaks in final phase of reelection campaign ● Harry S. Truman inaugurated as vice president ● U.S. infantrymen in Belgium ● Principals of the Yalta Conference ● U.S. troops cross the Rhine ● American army trucks cross Rhine close to Berlin ● FDR's funeral cortege ● Harry S. Truman is sworn in as 31st President ● American and Russian troops at Torgau, Germany ● American GI looks at Adolph Hitler's burning home ● General officials sign the surrender documents ● Parisians celebrate Victory in Europe day ● Germany surrendered unconditionally, May 7, 1945 ● U.S. soldiers and prisoners in Buchenwald ● For many at Buchenwald liberation came too late ● Concentration camp ovens with human remains ● January 1, 1946 session of Nuremberg trials   
 

PicturePack I05: WWII in the Pacific, 1943-45 ● Soldiers study war map Pacific-Asiatic theaters ● Casualties and destruction after battle of Tarawa ● U.S. plane covers troops in the Marshall Islands ● Army reinforcements disembarking on Saipan ● Marines in a burning Saipan village ● Marine wounded in the recapture of Guam ● MacArthur on Leyte ● The carrier Princeton burning ● Fifth Division Marines under fire on Iwo Jima ● Aerial view of the landing operations on Okinawa ● Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966) ● Crew of Bunker Hill fights fires from attack ● Bomb damage in Tokyo, 1945 ● The "Big Three" meeting at Potsdam ● Enola Gay after dropping first atomic bomb ● Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bomb blast ● The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki ● Formal Japanese surrender ceremonies ● MacArthur and Hirohito ● Japanese military leaders tried for war crimes   
  

PicturePack I06: The Post-WWII World ● The UN Charter Conference in San Francisco ● Troops on their way home ● Queen Mary arrives with troops from Europe ● John L. Lewis (1880-1969) ● Winston Churchill making "Iron Curtain" speech ● Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) ● Rocket scientist/inventor Robert H. Goddard ● The first U.S successful firing V-2 rocket ● Greek soldiers in action against guerrillas, 1947 ● George C. Marshall (1880-1959) ● French family inspects tractor furnished by U.S ● David Ben-Gurion proclaims Israel’s independence ● OAS headquarters in Washington ● Berliners watch a Berlin Airlift C-54 in flight ● Crew unloads tons of flour during Berlin airlift ● Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971) ● Strom Thurmond (b. 1902) ● Truman also faced a liberal challenger in 1948 ● Truman wins in 1948, despite contrary headline ● Map: electoral vote, 1948 election ● The Truman family ● Desegregated unit fighting in Korea in 1950 ● Senator Herman E. Talmadge (b. 1913) ● Truman signing the NATO treaty ● U.S. military aid ● Nationalist Chinese soldiers retreat ● Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung, 1893-1976) ● Ho Chi Minh with Georges Bidault ● Emperor Bao Dai and Premier Huu Tran Van ● Secretary of State Acheson with Senator Connolly   
  

PicturePack I07: The Korean War & U.S. Cold War Fears ● President Truman presiding over 1948 NSC meeting ● Map of southernmost advance, North Korean forces ● U.N. Security Council meets on Korea, June 1950 ● Soldiers advance under cover fire from aviators ● The Inchon invasion, September 1950 ● General MacArthur and General Omar Bradley ● Chinese "volunteers" capture U.S. tanks ● A Navy AD-3 bomber drops bomb on Korean bridge ● United Nations forces cross the 38th parallel ● The P’anmunjom peace negotiations, November 1951 ● A M.A.S.H. unit ● Royal Australian Air Force members on alert ● American and one North Korean guard at P’anmunjom ● Alger Hiss (b. 1904) ● J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) ● Truman awards Admiral Sidney Souers (1892-1973) ● Ethel and Julius Rosenberg ● Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1909-1957) ● Troops observe an A-bomb explosion ● First test of a hydrogen bomb, fall 1952 ● Eisenhower and Nixon ● Eisenhower playing golf at Newport, Rhode Island ● Oveta Culp Hobby (b. 1905) ● An Eisenhower/McCarthy cartoon  
 

PicturePack I08: The Eisenhower Years ● Eisenhower & Governor Earl Warren, July 13, 1953 ● The Supreme Court Building in Washington ● Thurgood Marshall argued the Brown case ● Demonstrations forced local districts to comply ● University students burn desegregation literature ● Eisenhower creates Interstate Highway System 1954 ● Intersection, U.S. Route 29 & Maryland Route 175 ● The Lockheed Constellation ● Prototype of first four engine jetliner July 1954 ● Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) ● Signing of the Alaska Statehood Act, July 7, 1958 ● Hawaiian Constitutional Convention in Honolulu ● Eisenhower with Secretary of State John Dulles ● Iranian paints anti-American graffiti on wall ● M-8 armored cars near Teheran ● Nikita Khruschev & Nicolai Bulganin ● British tanks depart from Egypt after Suez crisis ● Mao Zedung meets with Ho Chi Minh, Beijing, 1959 ● Fidel Castro   
 

PicturePack I09: Life in the Years After WWII ● 75% of Harvard freshman in 1946 were veterans ● New classroom building at the University of Miami ● Photo of the University of Oklahoma outer campus ● A very early computer ● Univac I ● New freeway construction ● Buyers wait to inspect ($7,900) 2-bedroom home ● Home bomb shelter, Garden City, Long Island, 1955 ● Woman operates mortise machine ● Workers in a typewriter plant ● A mother and son in their kitchen ● Young men attending 1950s family living class ● Dr. Benjamin Spock ● A polio victim ● Dr. Jonas Salk (b. 1914) ● Alfred E. Kinsey (1894-1956) ● NBC’s Radio City studios in Hollywood, California ● Gregory Peck doing a radio play ● First NBC studio in Rockefeller Plaza New York ● Families watch television together in 1950’s ● Father Knows Best ● Bob Hope (b. 1903) ● The puppet "Howdy Doody" and cast of characters ● Television’s popularity helped close theaters ● Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) ● James Dean (1931-1955) ● Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) ● Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (1919-1972) ● "Fats" Domino (b. 1928) ● Elvis Presley (1935-1977) ● Dick Clark (b. 1929)