The most common assumption was that if Americans had made their prior knowledge of the attack evident, the Japanese would know that their Purple Code had been broken and it would be back to square one (Harries). However, most people don't realize that President Roosevelt had been waiting for the perfect justified entrance to lead the country, still traumatized from World War I, into World War II. After World War I, a strong feeling of isolationism had developed in the United States. America had been destroyed in the first World War: the casualties had been extensive and the financial debt was tremendous. More than 300,000 American troops had been killed or wounded in the overseas battle ("the claim").
Summary Preface and Numbering: “How Man? How Many?” Chapter 8 Death is not just a word that defines the extinction of life. Drew Gilpin Faust not only describes death in "This Republic of Suffering" but the magnitude in which death occurred during the Civil War era. She gives the meaning of death a whole new meaning in that it is something that we all do, just differently from one generation to the next. From 1861 to 1865, approximately 620,000 soldiers' lives were cut short, not to mention the 50,000 civilian lives that were also claimed.
Greg will not win the case based in religion discrimination. The third employee is Horatio. Horatio may believe he is being terminated because he has another lawsuit pending for race discrimination (protected population). However, Horatio has no experience in HR polices or laws and will not be able to take over any other duties after the downsizing is complete. Moreover, Horatio has no evidence that the HR department treated him in a negative manner and he will not win.
The Sinking of the Lusitania Throughout the history of the world, many ships have sunk. Many sunk in battle and many sunk on accident. But, in the case of the Lusitania, an enemy of the cruise liner’s owner deliberately torpedoed ship full of civilians. During the events of WWI, the Germans sunk the Lusitania, a British cruise ship sailing from the United States to England that contained many American passengers. Many people, especially Americans, believe that Germany killed the passengers on the Lusitania for no apparent reason.
Source B9 is clear in doing this, Josh Brooman comes to the conclusion that Dunkirk was ‘a great defeat’ by focussing on the ’70,000’ men that were killed wounded or taken prisoner, the abandonment of ‘150,000’ French allies and the number of rifles and vehicles left behind. Source B9 also tells us that behind closed doors even Winston Churchill called Dunkirk ‘the greatest military defeat for many centuries’. As Prime Minister, Winston Churchill knew this information would have damaged the morale of the British people, which he didn’t want to do during a war. Although Source B9 fails to tell us how may soldiers were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk, and could be seen as one-sided, I don’t think this takes away from the reliability as it was written by a school history textbook
We all know that many American died at the horrifying attack. “4,500 Americans were killed or wounded” (Richmond). The way put out in text and understood is that, Pearl Harbor was indeed a wake up call for our nation and we did loose many Americans in the attack. But without that attack we wouldn't have gone to war, meaning, we wouldn't have stopped Hitler or the Holocaust. Stinnett quotes the chief cryptographer for the pacific fleet, who said, “It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the
The Vietnam War affected millions of veterans and showed the United States that even though they had the most powerful and best military in the world they could still lose a war. Many veterans all across the United States came back from the war with hatred and psychological problems. America’s society had changed after the war, people were not willing to go to war any more and America as a society saw the tragedies that occurred in
Social freedom was pretty much unheard of for the vast majority of lower-class Russians, around 50 million at the time of the emancipation of the serfs (1861) and all throughout the history of Imperial Russia’s there have been massive class divides this dived could be sustained whilst the peasants were uneducated but by the turn of the century people were starting to question the divine rule of the Tsar and 1905 revolution could been seen as major turning point that was as important as the First World War because on the 22nd of January 1905 The Tsar was responsible for the shooting of peasants in Bloody Sunday, where he ordered the army to open fire on a peaceful protest suggesting his inability to grasp a whole nature of events. Finally the Tsar was described as “out of touch and arrogant to his people” as he refused to believe and purposely ignored warning messages from Rodzianko his cousin explaining the severity of the revolution in 1017, the Tsar chooses to trust his wife, the Tsarina who has underestimated the threat of the protestors and was being greatly influenced by
Firstly, the British leant from their mistakes from the beginning of the war and started placing commanders into the front line so that they could easily and quickly give out new commands. Also, German’s numbers were significantly diminished and even though the British lost a lot, the German’s also lost many men and materials. Even though we ended the war with many casualties, the German’s numbers were down to 650, 000 by the end. It is difficult to declare the Battle of the Somme a victory for either side. Many argue that the battle was a disaster, saying that the Battle of the Somme delivered so many deaths for the British.
If soldiers didn’t liberate the camps earlier, more people could’ve died from starvation and lack of water. Many were too weak to carry on in the camps. If this ended sooner than it actually did, many lives would have been saved and as I said above, they could be still living today. The only thing that would remain the same of whether or not the Holocaust ended sooner or later would be Hitler going down in history as an evil man. The population of Germany decreased a lot over the years of the Holocaust.