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Pearl Harbor Attack Aircraft Carriers
1,189 wordsDecember 7 th, 1941, was the opening of World War 2, in the Pacific arena. In 1931, Japan invaded China's northern parts and then in 1937, Japan announced a full invasion of China. The United States couldn't just stand by and let Japan take over Asia's parts, so they moved their fleets to Pearl Harbor. The strongest ships were the battleships, which were named after the states of the union. U. S. Arizona was made in 1915 and then was Rebuilt and updated in 1930. The ship was surrounded with over...
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Marlon Brando Humphrey Bogart
2,163 words... t also helped increase survival rates for surgery. The first eye bank was established at New York Hospital in 1944. Unemployment almost disappeared, as most men were drafted and sent off to war. The government reclassified 55 % of their jobs, allowing women and blacks to fill them. First, single women were actively recruited to the workforce. In 1943, with virtually all the single women employed, married women were allowed to work. Japanese immigrants and their descendants, suspected of loya...
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Pearl Harbor Attack December 7 1941
1,072 words... of 1941 to try to lift the embargo with the U. S. and would call of the war if they were successful. The Americans and Japanese did not come to an agreement and the battle was underway. On November 26, the Japanese fleet left home on their journey to Hawaii. Their 4000 mile trip would take 12 days and would prove quite difficult. The winter weather was stormy and the high winds caused several sailors to be swept overboard. But, their voyage was successful and the men were ready for battle as...
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East Berlin Edward Ii
1,134 wordsEUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT, was born on February 10 th 1898 in Augsburg Germany, and died on August 14 th, 1956, in East Berlin. He was a German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, from 1917 until 1921, and served at an army hospital i...
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World War Ii Lend Lease
1,981 wordsIn 1935 the first neutrality act was passed, which meant that America would not be allowed to sell weapons to warring nations. In 1939 Americans steered clear of the war that broke out in Europe. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first and only president elected to three terms. He answered all critics with Abraham Lincoln's slogan "Dont change horses in midstream." He was nominated to his third term in 1940. Shortly afterward, in March of 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed u...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor Surprise Attack
642 wordsThe Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on US forces in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, killing thousands of US troops. This surprise attack played a key factor in the United States entering World War II. Because of the local commanders lack of attention and good judgment, the Japanese had the ability to attack the naval base and were successful in doing so. Primarily, the commanders ignored the obvious warnings of an attack from the Japanese and the current political situation between Ja...
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Extermination Camps Forced Labor
1,071 wordsFrom the time Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany in January 1933, until the surrender of his Third Reich at the end of World War II in May 1945, Hitler's Nazi led government engaged in two wars. One was a declared war of military expansion against the nations of Europe, which began with the 1939 invasion of Poland and reached its peak in mid- 1942, when German armies occupied much of the continent and had penetrated deep into the Soviet Union. The other was a war against the Jews of Eur...
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United States Entered Entered The War
1,508 wordsFortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America's Involvement in World War two not only contributed in the eventual downfall of the insane Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich, but also came at the precise time and moment. Had the united states entered the war any earlier the consequences might have been worse. Over the years it has been an often heated and debated issue on whether the united states could have entered the war sooner and thus ...
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German Workers Party World War Ii
852 wordsWho was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the F"user (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leading and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse ...
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First World War Storm Troopers
1,002 wordsDefinition of Holocaust: The Holocaust is generally considered to be the activity conducted by the German government from 1941 - 1945. The Nazis, the fascist government in power from 1933 - 1945 in Germany, systematically exterminated about 8 million people during these four years. The Nazis had been killing Jews, other minorities, and political enemies since the early 1930 's. It wasn't until an SS conference, chaired by Heinrick Heydrick, convened in 1941. At that conference it was decided tha...
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Threat To The United States Soviet Union
1,354 wordsIn 1938, the United States possessed the most productive economy in the world with one of the largest navies. However, to describe it as a fully active world power as we have shown already would be inaccurate. If it was America that sealed the fate of Germany in the First World War, its financial muscle during the twenties that brought a degree of stability to Europe, then it was its isolationist policy in the thirties compounded by the Depression that upset the international system. This encour...
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Managed To Survive Angel Of Death
2,187 wordsAuschwitz and Buchenwald Auschwitz and Buchenwald were the most terrible concentration camps. They were known under the names the Death Factories, the death conveyors, and the death machines, to mention a few. As any other definition, these are still far from exactness to make the picture complete. In fact, the most monstrous government with its own authorities, hierarchy, value system, economy, governors, executors, victims and heroes was created in Polish Silesia. Less than three thousand peop...
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00 A M Atomic Bomb
1,365 wordsA bright light filled the plane. We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... boiling up, mushrooming. (web) What could cause such devastation? Fat Man and Little Boy, the bombs that ended World War II and brought the world into the nuclear age. In September 1940, after the fall of France, Hitler and Mussolini made an alliance with Japan. The Tripartite Pact provided the right of entry of Japanese troops into Indochina. Japan quietly extended her influence in t...
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Prejudice And Discrimination Japanese Americans
2,218 wordsJapanese immigrants and the following generations had to endure discrimination, racism, and prejudice from white Americans. They were first viewed as economic competition. The Japanese Americans were then forced into internment camps simply because of the whites fear and paranoia. The Japanese first began to immigrate to the United States in 1868. At first they came in small numbers. US Census records show only 55 in 1870 and 2, 039 in 1890. After that, they came in much greater numbers, reachin...
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Joe Dimaggio Batting Average
291 wordsJoseph Joe Dimaggio DiMaggio, Joe Joseph Paul DiMaggio, b. Martinez, Calif. , Nov. 25, 1914, was professional baseballs premier center fielder during the late 1930 s and 1940 s. Playing his entire career (1936 - 42, 1946 - 51) for the New York Yankees, DiMaggio was a dangerous batter and one of the most graceful and fleet outfielders ever to play the game hence his nicknames, Join Joe and the Yankee Clipper. DiMaggio was the eighth of nine children of a San Francisco fisherman. In 1936 the Yanke...
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Selected Poems Robert Penn
2,032 wordsKieran Quinlan RANSOM, John Crowe (30 Apr. l 888 - 3 July 1974), poet and critic, was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, the son of John James Ransom, a Methodist minister, and Ella Crowe. Raised in a strongly religious though also very open-minded household, the precocious Ransom entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville at age fifteen. Following graduation in 1909 and a stint as a high school teacher, he went on to study classics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from 1910 to 1913. Ransom was appointed ...
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German Worker Party National Socialist German
2,030 wordsAdolf Hitler Hitler once shouted from the podium during his rise to power, Struggle is the father of all things It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle (Columbia n. p. ). For Hitler, this view of life was a vicious contest for dominance, a hard lesson beaten into him by his overbearing father. The brutal struggle that Hitler endured during his early life brought about the demand ...
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World War 2 Polish Jews
780 wordsDeath seemed to guard all exits. This motto defined the fate of the millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As the Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in World War 2, the killing of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, Poles, Homosexuals, and more began. The Nazi s built concentration camps to enforce unspeakable treatment and murder upon the Europeans. As World War 2 began, Hitler ordered to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients that were labeled incurable. They were taken to...
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Bang After Bang Began On September Bombing
1,055 wordsIn September of 1940 through May of 1941 there was a strategic bombing attack that was lead by the Germans targeted towards London and other cities located in England, this was known as The Blitz. The Germans aimed the bombs mostly at populated cities, dock yards, and factories. The bombing on London began on September 7, 1940 and lasted for 57 consecutive nights. During these nights of bombing people took shelter in warehouse basements, and in underground subway stations with no privacy and poo...
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Five Year Plans First Five Year Plan
1,094 wordsPeople Collectivisation consisted of grouping small, scattered farms in a given locality into a collective farm (Kolkhoz y). The peasants would hand over their grain, animals, tools and labour for the utility of the entire community. The collectives had to sell most of their produce at low prices to the government. In 1929 Stalin took serious austere action, speeding up the process and making it compulsory to join collectives. Some Peasants were refusing to share their labour, whilst others took...
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