1941

Although Adolf Hitler desired to invade both England and the Soviet Union he was forced to make a decision between the two in the late spring early summer of 1941. Adolf Hitler expressed strong desire in his book Mein Kampf, that he had an underlying objective to invade the Soviet Union. His justifications were to overcome the threat from Jewish-Bolshevik Communism and to gain expanded territory for the German people. Additionally, Hitler believed the German people were a superior race and…

Discuss the factors that led to the United States dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki On December 8, 1941 the Americans declared war on the Japanese, one day after the Pearl Harbor bombing in Hawaii. The Japanese had their own war going without a real competitor since they were conquering the southern and northern Asia but didn’t have a strong army to fight the Chinese and the Korean. Most of south-east Asia was easily taken. The Japanese were allied with the Nazis which were…

300 aircrafts. This resulted in the United States entering World War II. On December 7th, 1941, a devastating tragedy happened on the Hawaiian harbor called Pearl Harbor. Japan’s preparation for the attack, the horrifying number of people killed or injured, and the United States entering World War II has gone down in history, and is still talked about today. Before The Attacks On December 7th, 1941, a swarm of Japanese aircrafts zoomed over the naval base called Pearl Harbor. This…

On December 7th 1941, Pearl Harbor was deliberately attacked by the Empire of Japan. This day would become, “a day that will live in infamy” according to Franklin Roosevelt. The attack on Pearl Harbor left about 2,500 sailors dead and a thousand more wounded. It was evident, that the attack was planned months before the set day, and became apparent that the United States was mislead by the Empire of Japan in believing an attack would not be coming. It is said that the attack happened because the…

The Soviet Union’s stance on the Second World War was confirmed on august 23, 1939, just days before Hitler began his attack on Poland September 1, 1939. Stalin’s protégé and soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov shocked the world when he negotiated a non-aggression pact with German foreign minister Joachim Ribbentrop. Originally an attempt was made to join the allied powers but this never did go through. The soviet non-aggression pact was created by direct order of Stalin turning the…

In January 1933, some 522,000 Jews by religious definition lived in Germany. Over half of these individuals, approximately 304,000 Jews, emigrated during the first six years of the Nazi dictatorship, leaving only approximately 214,000 Jews in Germany proper (1937 borders) on the eve of World War II. In the years between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi regime had brought radical and daunting social, economic, and communal change to the German Jewish community. Six years of Nazi-sponsored legislation had…

America’s involvement in World War II exposed the decline of the Imperial Japanese Army’s aggression and morale between 1941-1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president of the United States in 1941 gave his Infamy Speech on December 8, 1941. The speech was his response to the American people regarding the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Just hours after his Infamy Speech, the United States declared war on Japan. This attack struck America in the heart and made Americans…

Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer. He was best known for his national radio and television acts between 1937 and 1971, and as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. Skelton, who has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, also appeared in vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist. Skelton began developing his comedic and…

14th 1941 that the beloved President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues the Presidential Proclamation No. 2537 requiring aliens from countries including Italy, Germany, and Japan to register with the United States DOJ (department of justice). These Liberal Japanese resented American anti-Japanese policies, particularly in California, where exclusionary laws were passed to prevent Japanese Americans from competing with U.S. citizens in the agricultural industry. In spite of these tensions, a 1941…

failed in May of 1941 after the Germans failed to provide meaningful support. The main reason for this failure of assistance was that in May of 1941 the Nazi army was in the midst of planning their fatal offensive against the Soviet Union in Europe. So the British did not face a strong opposition in their bid to take back Iraq from the rebels. Following the quelled threat from inside Iraq, the British moved quickly to invade Syria and Lebanon in June of 1941. By the end of July 1941, the French…