P C 12/10/12 Assignment 4: No Ordinary Time I chose to read No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin which not only introduced the reader to where Franklin and Eleanor came from and how they met each other, but who they are as people and the huge impact that still shows today that they had on our country. By the end of the book I felt as if I had personally met and spoke with both of them. The main theme of the book was not to educate the reader of the ferocious and sad battles that took place in Europe, but to show them the strides and changes that were taking place in America in order for our country to be able to go to war and be successful. In 1940 when FDR started realizing that we would have to get involved in the war one way or another, he took many carefully well-planned steps that were needed to make sure we were prepared and weren’t susceptible to attack.
There were many reasons why the U.S. won Midway, but the main reason is intelligence. The U.S. code cracker’s intercepted a Japanese code in 1942 that described Midway being a trap. Without intercepting this message, the battle would probably have ended up much differently. The U.S. Navy decided
The Political Policies and Philosophies of the Axis and Allies Countries For centuries, the German people have felt that their national destiny, their greatest chance for security, lay in domination of the east, i.e., European Russia/Ukraine. German settlers were scattered throughout the region and were very influential. Otherwise Germany had little interest in expansion. The battles in France, Norway, etal. were really defensive in nature, where Germany tried to gain an edge before the western Allies grew too strong.
The writer of the book went so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever be built in our lifetime because there are so few people willing to sacrifice to that degree. When I really think about it, I don't want my son to tell the friend he's bringing home from college for Thanksgiving,
We gained control after the deaths of over 60,000 of our men were killed in the line of duty. Some view this as a failure because the U.S. gained nothing from the fighting because Korea did not gain any land or resources during the war. Through saving the countries that were on the edge of becoming part of the communist nation, America escalated the tension of total nuclear destruction. The amount of cost the containment was for the United States was not seen as a success because the results were few to none and we gained nothing for
As people begin a conversation about war, someone always inquires about how the war started. There are several reasons that can cause a war to breakout between nations. World War I was fought in the years of 1914-1918. Several people described this war as the Great War because it was the first war that they had ever witnessed. World War I began because of many obstacles that America would have to sustain in order for the war to diminish.
American strategy remained torn between simply containing Communism or rolling it back by actively supporting the Soviet Union’s opponents. For historians of the Cold War, the great debate has been between traditionalists who tend to see the United States as the defensive power in the Cold War (and the Soviet Union as the aggressor) and revisionist historians who tend to see the United States and the Soviet Union as equally aggressive and equally at fault. Revisionists (those critical of American foreign policy) are usually accused of forgetting the ‘lessons of Munich’. It is argued that World War Two arose partly because too many historians thought Germany was unjustly treated after World War One by the Treaty of
It’s possible it will cause many problems and possibly another recession. Maybe even some wars over the states wanting to split away from the United States so they can be their own country. It takes a long time to write something like the Constitution. That is a part of history that we all learn they just cannot make it seem like it never existed or change it would just not make any sense to me. I am not saying just get rid of it completely but we all have learned about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation in history classes growing up and why they are so important to us.
And yet they scapegoated an entire people based on their ethnicity in a way that violates the Constitution." In this quote, it points out that there are zero pieces of evidence that have been verified to be true. So, any rumors, cases, or suggestions made by people that the Japanese were planning an attack were completely misleading. Even with the given proof that any claims of sabotage or espionage were proven false, people kept on persisting that was a case. I can prove this to be completely untrue, because in the article, Our Worst Wartime Mistake by Eugene V. Rostow, it states, “There was no sabotage by persons of Japanese ancestry.
Japan was near defeat, but many question how close Japan was to surrender (Jennings). Although some do not agree with the actions of the United States, the bombs were dropped, altering the history of World War II, our country, and the rest of the world. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and war is definitely no exception to this