WORLD WAR II AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IN THE NEW AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

• Authors: Parafianowicz H.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

To this day, historical works, more and more often revisionist in character, are written on the subject of the diplomatic, political and military aspects of WW II and American involvement in it. Many books have been devoted to US participation in the strategies of the Allies and, most of all, Roosevelt's war diplomacy. Dozens of substantial works have been published on the war with Japan and Germany, with much greater attention given to operations in the Pacific. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was, and still remains, a frequently discussed issue. It has been taken up by Roosevelt's critics, who see the act as a conscious provocation by the government and president for the purpose of American involvement in the war, as well as by apologists, who focus on the patriotism and heroism of American soldiers. For over 60 years historians have been searching for the full explanation and the truth about Pearl Harbor. For years, history textbooks made no mention of the relocation of Japanese Americans during the war. This was also an unpopular and, as a result, rarely discussed subject in historical works. Since the 1980s, the problem of relocation camps (also more often referred to as extermination and concentration camps) found a permanent place in American historiography. The Holocaust and the responsibility of politicians and nations for the mass extermination of Jews during WW II have been long present in American books. Every now and again discussions arise concerning the attitudes of Americans, American Jews, the administration and the president himself towards the Holocaust. The constructions of the atomic bomb and any plans connected with its possible use have been broadly discussed in historiography. It is possible to observe that this subject, as well as doubts concerning it, do not arise solely on the occasion of solemn anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Keywords

EN

NEW AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY; ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D. & WW II

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Dzieje Najnowsze
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 37-51
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Parafianowicz H.

• H. Parafianowicz, Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku, ul. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie 14, 15-097 Bialystok, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01142632