Naive Yanks and underhand Brits
Dr Duncan Anderson looks at the difficulties involved in getting the Americans and British to wage war together
Roosevelt addresses Congress
President Roosevelt addresses congress on 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...
Unconditional surrender
Prof Richard Overy discusses the hopes and fears that motivated German resistance in 1945, and the effect of the Allied deman...
Naive Yanks and underhand Brits
Dr Duncan Anderson looks at the difficulties involved in getting the Americans and British to wage war together...
Monty and the Americans
Dr Duncan Anderson discusses the importance of personalities in fighting alongside allies, and describes an early encounter b...
Churchill and Roosevelt Christmas Speech
The President turns on the Christmas lights in Washington on Christmas Eve 1941. In his speech he urges the American public t...
Hitler declares war on the USA
Prof Richard Overy looks at why Hitler declared war on America, and whether he helped President Roosevelt get into the war so...
Britain through American eyes
Dr Duncan Anderson points to a realpolitick truth behind the cosy appearance of the Anglo-American alliance...
America at war
The US responds to the attack at Pearl Harbor and prepares for World War...
Roosevelt visits troops
Shortly after the country has entered World War II, the US President inspects a detachment of American infantry in 1942...
Strong words from Roosevelt
Roosevelt addresses the issue of Nazi sympathisers and collaborators in 1941...
Roosevelt answers critics
In a televised speech in 1942, Roosevelt answers people's fears and anxieties about the strategy of the war...
Germany first
Dr Simon Trew describes how Britain and America were able to agree to prioritise the war in Europe over the Far East, and to ...
Casablanca Conference
For ten days all the leading figures from the Allies gathered in Casablanca for the North Africa Conference. It was here that...
America's First Lady in Britain
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt, gets a red carpet reception when she arrives in England...
American aircraft carrier
The unveiling of the U.S.S. Hornet, one of America's most ambitous naval projects during World War II...
