The Double V

In this video segment from Soldiers Without Swords, learn about the "Double V" campaign launched by the black press during World War II to empower African-Americans at home and abroad on the war front.

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FDR: The Lend-Lease Act

American Experience: This video examines the Lend-Lease Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to German attacks on Great Britain in the early years of World War II, before the U.S. had entered the war.

The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

Through flashback, L.D.Cox tells how he survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II in this segment from History Detectives.

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Truman and the Atomic Bomb — World War II

American Experience: Watch this video to learn what led President Harry Truman to decide to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end World War II.

World War II Remembered - A Letter to David

In this video from WVIZ Cleveland, learn about World War II first hand as a veteran and grandfather writes a letter to his grandson about what it was like.