Items tagged "World War II": 14

Marching through Georgia? Maybe not, by the looks of President Franklin D. Roosevelt! At one point during World War II, FDR considered sending American troops through Russia’s neighbor Georgia as a way to approach the Nazi Army. However, his plans were foiled because of an already strong Nazi presence there. Instead of sticking it out, FDR…

Anybody have an umbrella? Pre-World War II Europe was a Nazi storm. Hitler was flexing his muscles and seeing how far he could push his control into adjacent countries. Only one country in Europe was even pretending to stand up to him, and that was Great Britain. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, depicted here, saw the cloud of the Nazi storm…

You’ve got issues? Trust me mine are worse! Spain, Palestine, China, and Russia’s all think their issues deserve priority. Prior to World War II, these nations appealed to the League of Nations to solve their problems.Palestine was not happy because its ruling power shifted from the Turks to Britain during World War I, Spain was not…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt sure looks happy. Here he is providing American battleships to England as part of the Lend-Lease Bill of 1941. This bill allowed the United States to lease ships to the British under the understanding that this would protect the United States from being drawn into World War II. Roosevelt would have wanted to avoid…