Members of the experimental staff at North American Aviation, Inc. observing wind tunnel tests on a model of a B-25 plane in 1942 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember (MUSIC) World War...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, US President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin in Yalta, Crimea, on February 4, 1945 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Emb...
An American soldier at home on leave, learning about point rationing of food from his friend who runs the general store in Bowman, South Carolina, 1943. STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve...
Ruins left by the explosion of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. (MUSIC) American military planners had to make an importan...
Some of the first assault troops to hit the Normandy, France beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. (MUSIC) On June fifth, nineteen forty-four, a huge A...
08 June 2011 German soldiers in Stalingrad, September 1942 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) In December nineteen forty-one, the United States was at war. It declared war a...
02 June 2011 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, center, walking through a desert village in Egypt STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December of n...
19 May 2011 The USS California after being struck by a torpedo and a bomb during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) H...
11 May 2011 President Franklin Roosevelt during a Fireside Chat broadcast in Washington, DC STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) Germany's attack on Poland and the start of Wo...
04 May 2011 President Franklin Roosevelt STEVE EMBER: Welcome to The Making of a NationAmerican history in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Growing tensions in Europe and Asia created a serious conflict for Americans during the nineteen-thirties. Most Am...
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