1941

that started this awful war between Japan and the United States in 1941 in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor and the naval fleet there is where Japan decided to strike on December 7, 1941, it did not take long for the information on the both the attack and Japan to reach U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt, and how the United States responded to this attack started the Pacific War. Japan decided to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, even though they knew that the United States did not want to be…

besieged city of Leningrad, Russian citizens experienced deplorable conditions that would be equal in devastation to the atrocities at Auschwitz. Following the German encirclement of the city on July 8, 1941, a directive from Adolf Hitler was given to the Nazi commanders of Army Group North on Sep. 29, 1941, which foreshadowed the struggle that Leningraders would soon be forced to survive: “The Fuehrer has decided to have [Leningrad] wiped off the face of the earth . . . . the survival of the…

Secretary of State Cordell Hull held multiple meetings, however 1 Franklin D. Roosevelt. Infamy Speech Transcript. <http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/infamy.shtml> 1941 Yuichi Arima, The Way to Pearl Harbor: U.S. vs Japan, ICE Case Studies, December, 2003 2 3 James William Morley, Japan’s Road to the Pacific War, The Final Confrontation: Japan’s Negotiations with the United States, New York: Columbia University Press,…

The day of December 7, 1941 was devastating for many. The tragic acts were at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on U.S territory. The bombs were dropped to hit the ammunition stores, which exploded. Consequently, many ships, vessels, and aircrafts were sunk or damaged during this attack from Japan. Because of this, the U.S had no choice but to join the war. On December 8, 1941 Franklin asked congress to declare war on Japan. On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor, a U.S navy base near the Hawaiian island…

My Proposal will be over the reason why Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and how that decision ensured that Germany lost WW2 saving us from a very different Europe today. In 1941 Nazi Germany had in the past 2 years conquered much of Europe and it looked like Germany would rule Europe.They made the fatal decision then to invade Russia in a war that would lead to their downfall.In June 1941 then over 3 million German troops invaded the Soviet Union in the largest invasion in human…

Citizen Kane Film Analysis Citizen Kane is a 1941 American film directed, co-written, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. The actors in Citizen Kane (1941) include Charles Foster Kane played by Orson Welles, Jedediah Leland played by Joseph Cotten, Susan Alexander Kane played by Dorothy Comingore, Mary Kane played by Agnes Moorehead, and Mr. Bernstein played by Everett Sloane. This film is a “fictional biography” and “a mystery,” making cinematic advances on many fronts (Belton 35). Its most…

searching for still today. Wanting to live life without the threat of war, and terrorists. Some things have changed and changed for the worse, like the current threat of terrorism. The war in the Middle East not only resembles some of the chaos from 1941 when World War II was beginning, but it overshadows the past. Finally we can work through how our government could possibly prevent us from living in fear, and we can ask ourselves what it would take to demolish this fear. The fourth freedom,…

On Dec. 7, 1941, radios buzzed with the news that several hundred Japanese planes attacked a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans as well as damaging or destroying eight Navy battleships and more than 100 planes. Though it would be some time before people learned the full scope of the damage, within days a once-distant war in Europe and the Pacific became a central part of life in the United States, affecting politics, business, media, and entertainment.…

dated back to 1938”(The einsatzgruppen). “ Platoons of einsatzgruppen also followed the Nazi blitzkrieg into western Poland in 1939”(The einsatzgruppen). “In 1941 there was an incident where German soldiers died after being trapped in the compartment of a truck with a faulty exhaust”(The einsatzgruppen). Since the incident, later in August of 1941 Nazis leaders created the gas vans for less personal killings. “However, after a year of killing, the Nazis made a decision in June 1942 to start…

The Manhattan Project was the U.S. government’s research project that produced the first Atomic bomb. (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) This project lasted from 1942 through 1945. (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) It was prompted by the discovery that German radiochemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover the process of fission in uranium in December of 1938. (Energy.gov) (Atomic Archive) Albert Einstein decided it was necessary to write President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him that Germany…