1941 to 1945. Weve designed this exhibit as a recreation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, a world war ii Aircraft Carrier in the u. S. Navy. As you advance into the exhibit you will start out on the ship an get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. One of the things we like to do is introduce our visitors to the main players. We have a line up of four of them here. We have the japanese emperor, a man who in many ways was responsible for the war in the pacific. We have the president of the i need, franklin roosevelt. Our british ally Winston Churchhill and a man who has become the forgotten character of world war ii, the leader of the nationalist chinese. We fought a war in the pacific, chung fought a war on the asian mainland. Very bloody and protracted war. As we advance through the bridge of t of the uss enterprise, we will go into our next gallery for what life was like for the crewmen on the ships. This is what your quarters would look like. This was stripped to the bone
Enjoy American History tv tonight and every weekend. Next, we visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit at American University in washington, d. C. This american Artifacts Program was recorded in 2015. Hi, im peter kuznick. Im professor of history at American University and director of the Nuclear Studies institute. And i began our institute back in 1995. And the institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the inola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution and it got cancelled. This was an attempt to do an honest and balanced decision about the decision to drop the bomb. This was in the 1995, so this was the 50th anniversary. And in the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose mother and grandmother survived the atomic bombing in hiroshima, she and i decided we were going to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. So, with goerg to teach two courses on campus plus bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. So,