World War II And Mexican-Americans (1945)
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The primary source, “World War II and Mexican-Americans (1945)” describes the founding of an organization that confronts against the anti-Latina discrimination and fights for equal rights for Latinos. The League of United Latin American Citizens or known as LULAC specifies why there’s mistreatment of “Mexicans” when they are people that risked their lives to help during WWII. They define that in the United States there’s an ideal that the “American Culture” is remarkable and that others like the Mexican Culture are inferior. It displays an ironic situation because WWII was a war aimed at defeating countries in the east and west for their ideas of being “superior people” or having the “superior culture.” LULAC argues …show more content…
The fragments of WWI were what contributed to affecting countries like Japan, Germany, and Italy to commence a second all-out war, well-known as World War II. Germany was left in a weakened state and wanted to reassert its power, the rise of fascism with its creator Benito Mussolini, and Japan seeking vengeance for its humiliation were key points that mobilized them to begin their counter attack. At the start of the war, it was Germany vs France and England, while the United States was in neutrality that only sent out material support and that was due to the fact that American isolationism was a powerful movement that impacted the U.S. However, there was the acknowledgement of Americans that Germany’s aggression was dangerous and intolerable, but it was not enough for them to enact war. In spite of the U.S.’s determination not to move from neutrality, December 7, 1941 would become the ambition for the United States to join hostile warfare against Germany, Italy, and especially Japan. Since, that was the day the Japanese sent in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that caused 2,400 American soldiers’ lives, utter destruction of naval bases I Hawaii, and left the U.S.’s navy military almost crippled. The war effort led to negative and positive effects in the country,
The primary source, “World War II and Mexican-Americans (1945)” describes the founding of an organization that confronts against the anti-Latina discrimination and fights for equal rights for Latinos. The League of United Latin American Citizens or known as LULAC specifies why there’s mistreatment of “Mexicans” when they are people that risked their lives to help during WWII. They define that in the United States there’s an ideal that the “American Culture” is remarkable and that others like the Mexican Culture are inferior. It displays an ironic situation because WWII was a war aimed at defeating countries in the east and west for their ideas of being “superior people” or having the “superior culture.” LULAC argues …show more content…
The fragments of WWI were what contributed to affecting countries like Japan, Germany, and Italy to commence a second all-out war, well-known as World War II. Germany was left in a weakened state and wanted to reassert its power, the rise of fascism with its creator Benito Mussolini, and Japan seeking vengeance for its humiliation were key points that mobilized them to begin their counter attack. At the start of the war, it was Germany vs France and England, while the United States was in neutrality that only sent out material support and that was due to the fact that American isolationism was a powerful movement that impacted the U.S. However, there was the acknowledgement of Americans that Germany’s aggression was dangerous and intolerable, but it was not enough for them to enact war. In spite of the U.S.’s determination not to move from neutrality, December 7, 1941 would become the ambition for the United States to join hostile warfare against Germany, Italy, and especially Japan. Since, that was the day the Japanese sent in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that caused 2,400 American soldiers’ lives, utter destruction of naval bases I Hawaii, and left the U.S.’s navy military almost crippled. The war effort led to negative and positive effects in the country,