The Modern State and Foreign Engagement (1914-1945)

Anna Howard Shaw: The Fundamental Principle of a Republic

June 21, 1915

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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916

1916

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Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany

1917

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Arthur Zimmermann Telegram

1917

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William Tyler Page: The American’s Creed

1917

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Emma Goldman: Address to the Jury

July 9, 1917

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Sen. Robert La Follette: Free Speech in Wartime

October 6, 1917

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The Balfour Declaration

November 2, 1917

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Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

1918

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The Espionage Act

May 16, 1918

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Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.: Speech Against the League of Nations

August 12, 1919

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Calvin Coolidge’s Inaugural Address

March 04, 1925

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Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

July 05, 1926

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Boulder Canyon Project Act

1928

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Calvin Coolidge’s Farewell Address

February 22, 1929

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Herbert Hoover’s Inaugural Address

March 4, 1929

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National Industrial Recovery Act

1933

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Tennessee Valley Authority Act

1933

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Herbert Hoover’s Farewell Address

February 13, 1933

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1st Inaugural Address

March 4, 1933

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National Labor Relations Act

1935

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Social Security Act

1935

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Franklin Roosevelt: “We Have Only Just Begun to Fight”

October 31, 1936

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Letter from FDR to President of National Federation of Federal Employees

August 16, 1937 · On the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service

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Winston Churchill: “We Shall Fight on the Beaches”

June 4, 1940

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FDR Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry

1941

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Lend-Lease Act

1941

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The Atlantic Charter

1941

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Franklin Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms

1941

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Franklin Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech

December 8, 1941

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FDR Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese

1942

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General Eisenhower’s Order of the Day

1944

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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)

1944

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FDR’s New Bill of Rights (Excerpt from his 1944 State of the Union)

January 11, 1944

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Call to Prayer

June 6, 1944

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Korematsu v. United States

December 18, 1944

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Surrender of Germany

1945

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Surrender of Japan

1945

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Franklin Roosevelt’s Fourth Inaugural Address

January 20, 1945

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Charter of the United Nations

June 26, 1945

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Potsdam Declaration

July 26, 1945

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Harry S. Truman: Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

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International Organizations Immunities Act

December 9, 1945

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United Nations Participation Act

December 20, 1945

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