Provincetown Harbor

located in the Western United States. FDR, at the time a third-term president who had just guided the nation through the Great Depression, was faced with the first foreign attack on US soil since 1918 – the Japanese Empire’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Unexpected and unprovoked, the attack on December 7th 1941, “a date which will live in infamy”, was a huge success for the Japanese Empire, resulting in upwards of 3,500 Americans killed or wounded…

My ears started ringing from the shrieks of the bombs falling all around me. My comrades run past me on the sunny beach. “I’m going to die,” is my only thought. Why can’t life be simple again? It is only 8:05. Before the war at this time, I would’ve kissed my wife good morning and see my two little munchkins playing with the dog. My body was incapable of moving, “I need to get out of here!” There were too many of them, over 350 enemy aircraft started dropping bombs and torpedoes. I looked up as…

When Japan was trying to avoid Imperialism, and trying to adapt a few of the western influences. Japan’s leaders created reforms, there were a quite a few of them, but the main ones were militarism, industrialization and economic. Japan creates this since they thought it would assistance stopping everything from entering Japan. Their idea didn’t necessarily work. Each reform aids the process by moving slower and creating baby steps on entering their following stages; Japan in imperialism. Japan…

Death Valley was discovered by a party of pioneers heading to California in 1849. Prior to their discovery the Timbisha Shoshone Indians had lived in the area for centuries. The first white settlers in the area where Andrew Laswell and Cal Mowery and where the first to use irrigation for crops in the area. Mining began in Death Valley after the discovery of silver and many boomtowns started to appear in the area. The mining lasted for about a century, but many of the mines did not produce high…

Roosevelt tackled the thorny issue of the British Empire, promoting the recognition of “the right of all peoples to choose the government under which they will live.” Churchill did not have to wait long. After the bombing of the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, only one congressman opposed the declaration of war; the vote in the senate was unanimous. Hitler’s declaration of war on the US, which came four days later, was actually a blessing in disguise for Roosevelt; it enabled…

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. Red Tails, the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. The Tuskegee airmen once shot down three German jets in a single day. (according to movie review summary) On March 24, 1944, a fleet of P-51 Mustangs led by Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, commander of the Tuskegee airmen, set out on the longest…

Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech to Congress on how we should attack Japan after they bombed Pearl Harbor and San Francisco. He tells us that we should go to war with them because they have lost our trust and bombed two populated cities that we should go after them because they are attacking a lot of countries and islands. He explains to us how our families are in trouble and may be in life threatening danger unless we go and set them straight so we don't have to go through bombings in…

Fielder that changes have to be made (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970). When Army General Short takes over the Hawaiian command on February 7, 1941. The Chief Of Staff warned him about the risk or sabotage, and a surprise attack by air and submarine to Pearl Harbor. Short took sabotage like the first and priority because the significant amount of Japanese in the land (Burtness & Ober, 2013, p. 743). General Martin informed Admiral Kimmel about intelligence reports. The report concluded for a possibility…

All through human history many strange phenomena and disappearances have occurred. These strange disappearances have happened to not only a single person but a whole civilization and countless other strange things. This paper will show the top five mysterious disappearances that our history has to offer. The first mystery to discuss is the disappearance of Flight 19. Flight-19 is the codename for five Avenger bombers that took off from the naval base at Florida at 2:10 P.M. on December 5th,1945,…

Tibbets enlisted in the United States Army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he flew anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic. In February 1942, he became the commanding officer of the 340th Bombardment Squadron of the 97th Bombardment Group, which was equipped with the Boeing B-17. In July 1942 the 97th became the first heavy bombardment group to be deployed as part of the Eighth Air Force, and Tibbets became deputy group commander. He flew the…