White House in World War II
The atlas holds 14 people and 18 moments here, from 1939 to 1945. The most recorded lives are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Niels Bohr and Saint-John Perse.
Notable people
Alan Turing
in 1942
1 moment here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Dwight D. Eisenhower
from 1941 to 1945
2 moments here
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in 1945
1 moment here
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…
Fulgencio Batista
in 1942
1 moment here
Cuban army officer and politician who became a central power in Cuba after the 1933 Sergeants’ Revolt, served as president from 1940 to 1944,…
Harry S. Truman
in 1945
1 moment here
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…
Jean-Paul Sartre
in 1945
1 moment here
French philosopher, writer, and political activist associated with existentialism. His documented movements include education and teaching across…
John F. Kennedy
in 1941
1 moment here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
John Maynard Keynes
in 1944
1 moment here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Niels Bohr
from 1939 to 1943
2 moments here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Richard Nixon
in 1942
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Saint-John Perse
from 1940 to 1941
2 moments here
Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Soong Mei-ling
in 1943
2 moments here
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1939
1 moment here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Thomas Mann
in 1945
1 moment here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Moments
- 1939 Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics Niels Bohr
- 1939 Move to Washington Syngman Rhee
- 1940 Beginning of Washington exile Saint-John Perse
- 1941 Residence in Georgetown Saint-John Perse
- 1941 Joined Naval Intelligence in Washington John F. Kennedy
- 1941 War Plans Division service Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1942 Move to Northern Virginia Richard Nixon
- 1942 Washington naval-cryptanalysis visit Alan Turing
- 1942 Wartime visit to Washington Fulgencio Batista
- 1943 Address to Congress Soong Mei-ling
- 1943 White House press conference Soong Mei-ling
- 1943 Manhattan Project consultation Niels Bohr
- 1944 Washington Lend-Lease negotiations John Maynard Keynes
- 1945 Visit to General Marshall at the Pentagon Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1945 Addresses Congress after Yalta Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1945 Sworn in as president Harry S. Truman
- 1945 Germany and the Germans lecture Thomas Mann
- 1945 Return to Washington as Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower