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circa 1940: American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) at his desk. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American banks re-open after recent financial crisis (1933)

Photograph showing a small boat rescuing a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Picture: US Navy via AP

Roosevelt tells of Japanese ‘treachery’ after Pearl Harbor (1941)

President Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan in December 1941

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British Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965) with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) 32nd President of the United States, seated in a car on their way to the White House in Washington to discuss the Allied Victory in North Africa. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: President Roosevelt granted wider powers in ‘national emer...

The Ulster-Scot who became a key influence over US Cold War policy

Tyler Gatewood Kent, an American who was a pupil of Campbell College Belfast in the 1920s, and who later became a spy during the Second World War. This is Kent after his arrest in London, which was on May 20 1940, 80 years ago today

The Northern Ireland link of a spy who enraged President Roosevelt and delayed M...

The ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin, near Hitler's bunker, as the Allies and Russians closed in on final victory over Germany

A mental and physical wreck by the end of the war, Hitler had long lost contact ...