1941

in Germany before and during World War II. Zyklon B would be used for pest extermination and pest extermination in ships, machinery, and different types of buildings. This chemical was used for these ordinary tasks until the summer of 1941. After the end of August 1941, Zyklon B started to be used at Auschwitz. Also, Zyklon B was used in Auschwitz to take the lives of many prisoners. This means that a chemical that was used on pests would be used on prisoners at Auschwitz. This was very cruel.…

spending on World War II caused accelerated recovery from the Great Depression. And it also helped in reducing unemployment because they needed labor to produce war materiel and for the army. It lead the U.S. unemployment rate down below 10 percent after 1941. U.S. GDP also increased over 600 billion dollar from 1938 to 1945: 800 billion to 1474 billion. It was perfect way of escaping from the economic…

STAFF SERGEANT VICTOR V. CERVANTEZ MORENCI Army Air Corps Entered Service in December 1941 Gunner on B-24 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group European Theater, 8th Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 3 OLC Victor was 18 years old when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 1, 1941. Just six days later, the US entered the Second World War when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. During the great mobilization period of 1942 and 1943, Victor was stationed for…

declared Operation Barbarossa, the campaign to demolish the Soviet Union. His plan to wipe out the Jews was equally as long. Breitman finds that figuring out what the SS has planned at the end of 1940 and the beginning of 1941, will bring to Hitler’s idea to killing the Jews. In March 1941, during the meeting at the Propaganda Ministry about making the Jews get out of Berlin, Eichmann proclaimed that the Fuhrer assigned Heydrich to murder the…

Russia, the spread of communism may have overtaken Europe, as feared by Great Britain and France. It was Hitler 's fanaticism that drove Russia into a state of permanent poverty, desolation from war and politically divided by internal hostilities. By 1941, the international order was already against Hitler. Britain was helpless to stop Hitler who was already making preparations for a pre-emptive attack on the Soviet Union. Hitler was getting out of hand. Hitler was being gaining power rapidly.…

It was December 7th, 1941 the worst day in US history: the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The next day the President told the World, "I asked that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack on Japan on Sunday, a state of war has existed between United States and Japanese Empire." The child was very mad because his dad was going to be going to be in the Navy because they recruited husband, because he was a experience out on the ocean. The child said " It was weird not…

Slaves were considered a major part of everyday lives in America during the 1800’s. Slaves were used for labor and personal use by slave masters. Southerners argued that black people, like children, were incompetent of caring for themselves and that slavery was a generous and well needed institution that kept them fed, clothed, and occupied (Civil War Trust 2014). The lifestyles of slaves in the early 1800’s created hardship for some and a regular life for others. The narratives of George…

Eager and apprehensive crowds were not unusual in the Lodz Ghetto in 1941. Food was running scarce, and Jews were desperate to gather whatever resources they could, no matter the cost. But for a few days of that fateful year, the crowds did not seek food, form lines to exchange heirloom jewelry for sundries, or stand for hours for a chance at obtaining enough sustenance for their families Instead, they waited to bless the miraculous appearance of the four species celebrating the harvest festival…

materials and oil. Japan decided that to survive they had to expand within Asia to get more materials so they invaded French Indochina in 1940 to embargo all imports to China which included war supplies purchased from the U.S. From this move on June 14, 1941 United States placed an embargo on Japan for any import or export and trade transactions of oil. United States had economic interests on Asia and if they stopped materials and oil to Japan they…

He became an active member of the Polish Resistance Movement but was arrested under false name on September 1st, 1941 and had been sent to Gestapo Prison. There he was interrogated and severely beaten to disclose other names of the underground resistance. He strongly endured the pain giving no information so they deported him to The Auschwitz Concentration Camp on November 20th, 1941. Sobolewicz lived and suffered through a total of six concentration camps and a prison for the period of WW II.…