AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

With a navy cape thrown over his shoulders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown as he drove in an open car from the Charleston, S.C., on March 3...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt catches up on his main returning from his cruise of the Navy's Caribbean war games. He was greeted with a volume...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt waves goodbye in the launch which shoved off from Key West, Florida on Feb. 18, 1939 for the cruiser Houston from whi...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in this thoughtful mood on Feb. 18, 1939 at Florida City, Fla., on his way to Key West where he sailed for the...

With serious expression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt examines a chart of south Florida waters with Daniel J. Callahan, Naval aide, at Key West, Fl...

With serious expression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt examines a chart of south Florida waters with Daniel J. Callahan, Naval aide, at Key West, F...

Mrs. Elisa Batista, left, wife of Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista, and Mrs. Addie Worth Daniels, wife of Josephus Daniels at dinner in honor of Bat...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John Garner shown them together at the dinner given by the Garners in Washington, on Feb. 7, 1939...

Vice President John Garner and wife Mariette were hosts to president and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at a dinner in Washington on Feb. 7, 1939. Shown,...

Military movement occurs with increasing frequency in Carpatho-Ukraine these days because of border conflicts and the preparedness program being carri...

A young Ukrainian soldier on sentinel duty along the Carpatho-Ukraine border is shown, Jan. 27, 1939. (AP Photo)

Two Hungarian casualties lay in the snow-covered street at Munkiacs, Hungary, during a lull in fighting, Jan. 6, 1939. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen as he addressed both houses of Congress in Washington on Jan. 4, 1939, the keynote of his speech being defens...

It was a serious-faced William B. Bankhead, Speaker of the House (left) and an intent-looking Vice President John Garner who heard President Frankli...

Even the peasants living along the borders of Carpatho-Ukraine must undergo questioning as they cross the frontier to see friends in the neighboring v...

Photo shows Chinese victim at Nanking burned about the face, in China, on Dec. 29, 1938. Allegedly a victim of kerosene or oil having been poured on h...

Photo shows Chinese civilian reportedly chopped upon by a Japanese soldier with his sword in China, on Dec. 29, 1938. The latter failed to sever this...

Konrad Henlein, wearing swastika, Sudetenland district leader, is shown with Frau Henlein, just behind, as they voted in Reichenberg, Germany, Dec. 4,...

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is shown when 101,000 persons gathered there to watch the Southern California football team defeat the Notre Dame el...

Photo shows Nazi Propaganda Posters in 1939. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Nazi Propaganda Posters in 1939. (AP Photo)

An apartment building on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, show the effects of Nazi bombs dropped from planes during an air raid on the city, 1939. (A...

Starving Polish civilians cut meat to eat from the carcass of dead horse, 1939. (AP Photo)

Two months after the accord of Munich, German army units continued the peacetime maneuvers as shown in this picture of a crack tank regiment in action...

From behind an impenetrable smoke screen this heavy German tanks milled into sudden attack during maneuvers of the crack divisions of tank regiments i...

Alleged to be Hungarian terrorists, these men have been taken by the Czech authorities in the past few weeks, many of them accused of allegedly creati...

Which is what Earl Carroll, beauty Judge and dance director, shown on Oct. 31, 1938 to select beauties for his Hollywood Theatre-Restaurant soon to op...

Sudeten refugees disembark at the London wharf, Oct. 31, 1938. Men with well-paying jobs could only take 25 shillings out of Czechoslovakia and most...

Munger of Stanford reaches in vain as a Southern California player spoils pass through by Stanford???s Cavelli in game played on Oct. 26, 1938 at Pale...

Within sight of the sea of Galilee, Israel sorrowful Jews bury their people on Oct. 18, 1938 slain in an attack by rebel Arabs in Tiberias, Palestine...

Italian Premier Benito Mussolini's love of children caused him to pause and pat the cheeks of several youthful girl admirers at the Munich Railway sta...

Germans prepare to take over this heart of the Sudeten German district in Czechoslovakia, shown Oct. 10, 1938. (AP Photo)

Sudeten refugees arrive in Prague, Oct. 9, 1938, typical of the continuous stream of people fleeing from the occupied zones. (AP Photo)

Field Marshall Herman Goering passed the review of German Air Force detachments at Freudenthal, Northern Moravia, fourth zone occupied by German army,...

Seeking to escape from the possibility of war, refugees evacuate Prague, the Czech capital, on a daily basis, as seen Oct. 3, 1938, outside the Wilson...

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler is shown during his visit to Eger, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 3, 1938, when he visited the third zone of the occupied Sudeten...

Adolf Hitler is shown during his visit to Eger, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 3, 1938 in the third zone of the occupied Sudeten German territories, where he wa...

This Sudeten German resident of Asch was all ready for attack by Czech troops with rifle and grenades in his crude trench, but acceptance by Czechoslo...

Under increased pressure after the four-power disposition of the German claim on Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia surrendered Teschen to Poland,Oct. 2, 193...

The removal of the Czech frontier emblem from its post at Grottau, in the No. 2 zone, Oct. 2, 1938. (AP Photo)

Sudeten-Germany was occupied by German troops on Oct. 2, 1938. The soldiers had a rousing welcome when they marched and drove through the border town...

An estimated 12,000 to 15,000

First territory to be occupied by German troops from Passau and Linz announced to saluting Sudeten Germans at Klein-Philipsreut, Oct. 1, 1938 that the

Some of the marchers in the

With church bells ringing and hundreds of thousands lining the streets, Hitler was given a triumphant welcome similar to the one he experienced after...

With church bells ringing and hundreds of thousands lining the road, Hitler was given a triumphant entry similar to the one he experienced after the A...

German troops march southward through Rudelstadt, German Silesia, toward the Czech frontier, Oct. 1, 1938 to take over parts of Sudetenland as arrange...

Jerusalem natives in native clothes in October 1938. (AP Photo)

A member of the Sudeten German free corps wearing Czech steel helmet, present a message to an SS machine gunner, Oct. 1938. (AP Photo)

Barricades erected along the German Czech frontier during the height of the tension, preceding the Munich parley, are shown being removed, Sept. 30, 1...