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    From June 22 to August 22, 1941 a shift occurred in the newly occupied territories of the Soviet Union, a change that fundamentally changed the tone of the war and the approach to the Final Solution of the Jewish problem in the occupied territories of Europe. On August 22, 1941 a massacre took place in the Ukraine that might seem unimportant, almost insignificant in the face of the other killings that had already taken place in the war except for one detail; the killing order came from…

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    9/11: The Day Of Infamy

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    are war, or they are enemies of the country, or they don't like the country. Our country has been attacked two major times, during World War II and during 9/11, both times were surprise attacks. On December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech to Congress, December 7, 1941, was a day that would go down in the history books and will be remembered forever. It was the day that we were betrayed by people with whom we were in peace talks with.. That day, was when the Japanese…

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    From 1939 to 1941, Germany ccptured or gained control of much of Europe, and formed the Axis power with Italy and Japan. The war continued mainly between the Axis powers and the United Kingdom, with the North and East Africa campaigns In June 1941, the European Axis powers invasion of the Soviet Union, In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean in an attack we know…

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    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation is one of the best speeches in United States history. This address was delivered on December 8, 1941 in Washington D.C., a day after the orchestrated attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. This persuasive speech was addressed to the members of Congress, but was broadcasted live over the radio to the entire country. There were two purposes for this address: “to urge Congress to formally declare war on Japan … and to…

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    They were trained in Rantoul, Illinois. The group become the core squadron at Tuskegee in Alabama. The 99th squadron was the first to form, the Tuskegee experiment officially begin in June of 1941. They were put under the command of Benjamin Davis Jr. he was one of he of the few that graduated through West Point Academy.In the 1940’s, the United States Military, like so much of the nation, was segregated. The so-called Jim Crow Laws kept blacks…

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    the organization of records librarians, and the approval of formal education process and a curriculum for medical record librarians. This was summarized by Edna Huffman in an article appearing in March 1941 issue of the Bulletin of the American Association of Medical Record Librarians (Huffman 1941). The HIM began in 1928 with the establishment of the Association of Record Librarians of North American (ARLNA). Over the years the name had changed many times to reflect the healthcare…

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    war on Germany. Then at the beginning of 1941 the Soviet Union joined the Allied Powers. “After the horrific experience of World War I, many Americans did not want their soldiers to die in another European conflict” (Langley 17). By the end of 1941 the United States joined the war after Pearl…

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    deserve to live. They believed that by weeding out these individuals, they could clean the Aryan Race, which was the Nazi ideal race. This “master race” was basically a blonde non-Jew white person. It was the precursor to the Holocaust. From 1939 to 1941, over 200,000 victims were killed with about 70,000 via gas chambers. The process involved surveys of all psychiatric institutions, hospitals, and homes…

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    Mein Kampf

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    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…

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    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…

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