World War 2 proved to be a stimulus for the American economy. 17 million new jobs were created and unemployment was virtually wiped out. Average wages increased by 30%‚ this was mainly due to the high levels of industrial output. By Christmas 1942 USA output was greater than Japan‚ Germany and Italy combined. Jobs dramatically rose by 52% due to the high level of demand‚ for wartime resources. This was also debatably a huge moment for America because it was economically growing at rapid pace compared
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Samantha Hartling Hartling‚ 1 Mr. Denette History 5/31/2013 A war had a huge impact on our history and society‚ which makes us who we are today. This war created terror and spread throughout the whole world. The “Holocaust” was caused by the dictator Adolf Hitler; he caused the bloodiest war in history killing 11 million people‚6 Million of them were Jewish. He was the main problem of this war and needed to be taken down right away. The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest
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Leading up to World War II The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time) had greatly destabilized Europe‚ and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular‚ political and economic instability in Germany‚ and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty‚ fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitlerand his National Socialist (Nazi) Party. After becoming Reich Chancellor in 1933‚ Hitler
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Not all Jews were killed‚ some were saved‚ but most Jews were killed. For example “Signs of unimaginable suffering were everywhere‚ inmates had been shot‚ beaten‚ whipped and‚ hung‚ others had been starved or worked to death” Furthermore “As chief of the Jewish office of the RSHA‚ Adolf Eichmann was responsible of deporting between five and six million Jews.” According to yadvashem.org‚ “ Suzanne Spaak was an active participant in an operation initiated by Pastor Paul Vergara and Marcelle Guillemot
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Together‚ Canada and the United States‚ on behalf of the Allies‚ made military contributions in the Second World War‚ albeit with varying results. Canada had declared war on the Axis Powers only a week after Great Britain and France had made their declarations. The war continued on‚ and Axis victory was being averted by sheer Allied bravery‚ even though Britain was near to collapse and France and the rest of Europe had long fallen. Allied victory seemed impossible‚ until the United States entered
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Pearl Harbor We all know what happened after Pearl Harbor. The US got involved in World War 2‚ battles were won‚ long story short‚ we came out victorious. We’re proud of our win‚ and we gloat about it. But how does Japan view the war? In their culture‚ a loss of a battle is the ultimate disgrace. What do they teach students about this war? Did their government hide the true outcome of the war from them? What about the Kamikazes? So many questions are asked‚ and we hope we can answer some. Japan
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Totalitarianism - a centralized system of government where the State has complete power over all aspects of a person’s life (politically‚ economically‚ socially and culturally); totalitarianism tries to abolish all freedom Fascism - the political ideology that considers individuals as inferior to the State. Fascism promotes a dictatorial one-party rule‚ centralized control of private enterprise‚ repression of opposition‚ an extreme form of nationalism‚ and a denial of individual rights. Fascists
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The basic causes of World War II were nationalistic tensions‚ unresolved issues‚ and resentments resulting from the First World War and the effects of the Great Depression. Even though what sparked the Second World War were the invasion of Poland by Germany and the invasion of China by Japan‚ there are still so many little reasons the whole war fused up. The main the cause of this war was the Treaty of Versailles. Woodrow Wilson believed that Germany should have been punished but not as severely
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1) The reason for US neutrality in the 1920s and 1930s was because the US has always been accustomed to isolation. They wanted to go back to “normalcy.” They tried to refrain the country from getting involved in foreign affairs that would require resources. There was a lot of social changes going on during this period of time for groups such as women having the ability to vote and African Americans being more seen as equal. In the late 1920s and early 1930s‚ certain novels and journals were making
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World War 1 is the war that was fought in Europe and spanned for almost five years‚ toward the end of WW1 they considered as a part of the military staff that were influenced by the new progressions of innovation‚ more than 9 million individuals passed on from the definitive new strategies on both of these sides. One of the new items that was presented was the mustard gas. This kind of overwhelming weapon was equipped for spraying so as to execute anyone in a long meter range fuel in each heading
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