World War II Primary Sources | Intensification

• Winston Churchill
• Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Adolf Hitler
• Herbert A. Werner
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

World War II (1939-45) grew out of a quest for power and territory in both Europe and Asia. On the European front, the war was sparked by the land-grabbing maneuvers of German dictator Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (or Nazi Party for short). (A dictator is a leader of a government in which absolute—and...