Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
• U.S. Policy During WWII
• The War Refugee Board

1937

• Roosevelt Greeting Expesses Support for Jewish Homeland (2/6/37)

1938

• Roosevelt Comments on the Jewish Refugees (11/5/38)
• Roosevelt Mentions Jewish Refugees in Press Conference (11/18/38)
• Roosevelt to Senator Tydings on the Palestine Situation (10/19/38)
• Roosevelt Statement on Refugees in Palestine (11/23/38)

1939

• Roosevelt on Political Refugees (10/17/39)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini (4/14/39)

1941

• Churchill, Roosevelt Announce “The Atlantic Charter” (8/14/41)
  • Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on “The Atlantic Charter” (8/21/41)
• Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from Roosevelt and Churchill (8/15/41)
• Joint Statement by Roosevelt and Churchill On War (6/27/41)
• Letter from Roosevelt to Stalin (10/8/41)
• Letter from Roosevelt to Stalin (10/30/41)
• Message of President Roosevelt to King Peter II of Yugoslavia (4/8/41)
• President Roosevelt’s Annual Address to Congress - The “Four Freedoms” (1/6/41)
• President Roosevelt’s on Policy Toward the French Republic (5/15/41)
• Roosevelt Asks Congress to Recognize State of War with Germany and Italy (12/11/41)
• Roosevelt Freezes Japanese and Chinese Assets in the United States (7/25/41)
• Roosevelt Protests Execution of Hostages by the Nazis (10/25/41)
• Roosevelt’s Address to Congress Calling for a Declaration of War Against Japan (12/8/41)
• Roosevelt’s Address to Congress Recognizing War with Germany (12/11/41)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast on Challenges of War (5/27/41)
• Roosevelt’s Independence Day Broadcast on Isolationism (7/4/41)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress Urging the Arming of Ships Engaged in Foreign Commerce (10/9/41)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on U.S. Occupation of Iceland (7/7/41)
• Roosevelt’s “Navy Day Address” on the Attack on the Destroyer Kearney (10/27/41)
  • The Reich Government’s Reply to Roosevelt’s Navy Day Speech (11/1/41)
• Stalin Replies to Roosevelt Letter of October 30, 1941 (11/4/41)

1942

• Exchange of Letters Between Churchill and Roosevelt on American Contributions for British Relief (1942)
• Memo to President Roosevelt from Leaders of the American Jewish Community (12/8/42)
• Message from Roosevelt to Mikhail Kalinin, President, Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (11/6/42)
• Roosevelt Announces Opening of Second Front in French North and West Africa (11/7/42)
• Roosevelt Calls for Community Mobilization (10/5/42)
• Roosevelt Discusses Second Front with Molotov (6/13/42)
• Roosevelt Tells Congress U.S. at War With Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania (6/2/42)
• Roosevelt on Termination of Diplomatic Relations with the Vichy Government (11/9/42)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast to International Student Assembly (9/3/42)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast to the Nation on Rubber (6/12/42)
• Roosevelt’s Broadcast to the Nation on War Effort (10/12/42)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Franco (11/8/42)
• Roosevelt’s Message to the French People (11/7/42)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Marshal Henri Petain (11/8/42)
  • Petain’s Reply to Roosevelt’s Note of November 8, 1942
• Roosevelt’s Statement on Japan’s Use of Poison Gas (6/5/42)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on North African Policy (11/17/42)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on Punishment of War Crimes (8/21/42)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on War Crimes (10/7/42)
• Roosevelt’s Wartime State of the Union Address (1/6/42)

1943

• Roosevelt on the Casablanca Conference (2/12/43)
• The Teheran Conference (12/1/43)

1944

• Franklin Roosevelt’s Press Conference on D-Day (6/6/44)
• Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews (1/13/44)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Refugees (6/12/44)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on Holocaust Victims and Justice (3/24/44)

1945

• Letter From President Roosevelt to the King of Saudi Arabia Regarding Palestine (4/5/45)
• The Potsdam Declaration (8/2/45)
• Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on the State of the Nation (1/6/45)
• Roosevelt’s Report to Congress on the Crimea Conference (3/1/45)
• White House Announces Death of President Roosevelt (4/12/45)
• Yalta (Crimea) Conference (2/1945)