1941

Joseph Stalin had a huge impact on World War 2. The Nazi-Soviet Pact he made with Hitler gave him opportunity to improve his country’s strategic position along the western border without getting caught up in any conflicts. When Hitler took over Poland, Soviet troops took over the eastern half they agreed to share. U.S.S.R. later pursuated the Baltic States(Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) to allow the Soviet’s inside their borders. Stalin tried doing the same with Finland but the Red Army…

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” (American). President Roosevelt said this the day after Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. The bombing of Pearl Harbor affected America in a bad way because there were many causalities as well as many ships lost. The attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, was a tragic event in American history.…

Robinson and several other black soldiers applied for admission to an Officer Candidate School (OCS) Although the Army's initial July 1941 guidelines for OCS had been drafted as race neutral, few black applicants were admitted into OCS until after subsequent directives by Army leadership. As a result, the applications of Robinson and his colleagues were delayed for several months. After…

7th of December 1941. This event changed America’s views on the ‘Germany First’ strategy, and Curtin’s hope of an equal effort to apply in the Pacific sector eventuated (Russell, 1993), with the USA appointing General Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Commander in the Pacific (Russell, 1993) .This indicates that the US became a guiding force to Australia as they worked together to defeat the Japanese. Prime Minister Curtin reinforced this with his landmark address on 27th December 1941, “Without any…

Representatives. These positions were labeled as “gender appropriate roles “for women resulting in being nicknamed “Camp Followers”. Although these women served under a tremendous amount of pressure, they remained proficient in their roles. December 1941, 350,000 women entered to serve in the U.S Armed forces.…

Pearl Harbor was a truly fun and educational movie. This movie is of course based upon the events that happened at the Pearl Harbor Naval base on the morning of December 7, 1941, which includes both the time before the strike, and the events that followed. This movie takes place in Hawaii on the deck of a nuclear aircraft carrier. Throughout the movie, the main focus was to portray American patriotism. I believe they did a great job in doing this. The major characters in this movie are: Ben…

What interested me the most in my social studies class were “The Sons of Liberty.” The Sons of Liberty were the masterminds of the boston tea party. “The Boston tea party” is when the colonist of Great Britain had dressed up as indians and dumped all the tea in the harbor. The Sons of Liberty, a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy, was established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the…

addressing the situation. Due to hostility from foreign Japan, The United States will be taking an offensive position. Being that the nature of this attack was unprovoked, our country cannot allow it to go unreturned. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his 1941 speech, “With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph- so help us God.” [“Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation.” Quizlet, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum, 2016,…

What Caused Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor? The tension between Japan and America had been steadily growing since the end of the first World War, and on December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. What reason did Japan have to attack Pearl Harbor? Japan chose to attack Pearl Harbor due to America’s insults, the sudden cutoff of supplies, and their desire to conquer. America’s insults infuriated Japan. In Japan, retreat is seen as an honorless act, and Hideki Tojo, the Prime Minister of…

conflict also escalated in North Africa, primarily as a result of Italy’s aggression in the region in 1940 and 1941. One of the primary flash points in North Africa was the key port of Tobruk, Libya, which changed hands between the Germans and the British several times and was the site of several major battles. Originally in Italy’s sphere of influence, Tobruk fell to the British on January 12, 1941, building upon the initiative they had seized after Italy’s defeat in Egypt the previous year.…