1941

Roosevelt’s announcement of a ‘shoot on sight’ policy in September 1941 following an attack on the USS Greer enraged isolationist senators; they alleged that Roosevelt was deliberately provoking skirmishes with the Germans. Meanwhile, Churchill repeatedly attempted to convince Roosevelt to enter the war. At the August 1941 Atlantic Conference, the two leaders composed a charter for the post-war world; Roosevelt tackled the thorny issue of the…

that her ancestors have also lived there generation after generation. First off, Miss Strangeworth is very proud. She has lived in her small town her whole life. “This house right here. My family has lived here for one hundred years.” (Jackson, 1941, p.163). She has lived in that house on Pleasant street her whole life. She talks like she is the best thing that has ever happened to that town. “She knew everybody in town, of course, she was fond of telling strangers and tourists who sometimes…

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was a genocide in which, under the rule of Adolf Hitler and his collaborates, approximately six million Jewish people were killed by Germany’s Nazi Regime from 1941-1945. Though the anti-semitism of Nazi Germany began in 1933 because of Hitler’s belief that the Jewish people were “inferior” to the “superior German race”, the mass murders we all associate with the Holocaust did not begin until World War II had started. In the beginning the…

On September 2 ,1939 war was waged throughout the world. This is the day historians look at as the start of the world war 2 period. Though the date is september 1939 the acts that went on through this war and the holocaust had a preamble starting before the biblical times.The U.S. being the war capital shockingly entered the fight very late into the war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is what lead to the United States of America to enter World War Two. These are reasons why the U.S. chose…

In the first months of 1941, the American citizens were debating the positive and negatives points of intervention in the European War. Hitler was gaining strength. Those advocating intervention and those who opposed it gave speeches throughout the country. A comparison of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, Charles Lindbergh’s speech, on May 23, 1941, in New York, and Joseph Kennedy’s speech on January 6, 1941, show the divisive views of Americans war and post-war…

countries. Hitler then focused on the country’s north and west attacking Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Hitler defeated all these countries except the British. Control of these countries came between 1940-1941 and with each country he conquered Hitler’s military and…

a lake surrounded by a few cottages and offers memorable summer getaways for its visitors. White describes the lake in immense detail recounting the sound of the breeze and storms, the scent of the lakewater, and the feel of the cool water (White, 1941). Such detail makes White’s memories of the lake come alive for me and transports my senses to the scene. A significant characteristic of this story was that it described the author reliving his childhood experiences by watching his own son…

false image that she gives to the others. When she went to the grocery store “Miss Strangeworth had to stop every minutes or so to say good morning to someone or to ask after someone’s health” (Jackson, 1941, p. 165). Everyone likes her and they “wave at her or call out good morning” (Jackson, 1941, p. 165) when she arrives somewhere. She talks to everybody to know all their problems so it is easier for her after to write them rude letter. At the beginning, it is hard to see what her personality…

Famous American short story writer Edgar Allen Poe uses point of view effectively in “The Black Cat.” “The Black Cat” was first published in the United Sates Saturday Post on August 19, 1843(Obaid). The narrator of the short story is in jail waiting to be executed the next day, and he wants to set the story straight on the crime that propelled him there. The narrator and his wife love pets and have a black cat named Pluto, but one night the drunk narrator digs the cat’s eyes out and hangs the…

invasion but will win through absolute victory. Concrete Detail: In 1941, General Hideki Tojo became the Japanese prime minister. According to the text, throughout the summer of 1941, “Japan and the United States attempted to negotiate an end to their disagreement, but with little success. According to the text, Japan was bent on further expansion, and the United States was firmly against it. Finally, in late November 1941, Cordell Hull, the U.S. Secretary of State, rejected Japan’s latest…