The First Day Of September 1939

8. SUBJECT: This book is a combination of Krulak’s personal experience and opinion about the

World War II began in 1939 and ended in 1945. This war killed more people and destroyed more property than any other war with fifty-nine countries being involved in(2). Pearl Harbor, the first sneak attack by another country on US soil was a pivotal beginning to the war for the United States. There were many reasons for the United States to get involved into the war and help its allies, but it was Pearl Harbor which forced us into it. Because of Pearl Harbor, Hitler and the crimes against humanity that he committed it justified United States entry into the war.

The Marine Corps Experience, pp. 12 – 31 The Corps today, pp 318 – 335

“There are only two kinds of people who understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else just has a second-hand opinion.” (Gen William Thornson, U.S. Army) For decades, the United States Marine Corps has established an identity as a unique and fearless war fighting machine.

“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant”-(The 11th Doctor). World War II was the darkest point in human history and its most devastating war, yet not everything that happened as result of the war caused pain and death. WW II started on September 1st 1939 with the German invasion of Poland and ended on August 15 1945 with the surrender of Japanese forces. The opposing sides in the conflict were the Allied Powers: the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, fighting against the Axis Powers: Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan. As a result of the war new weapons,

Lt Col Wise described as he received several reports of the Marine successes in the battle as reports of objectives gained came in. Also several German prisoners were taken. The Germans put up a good fight with their machine guns but as Capt. Wass, one of Wise’s officers said,

December 7,1941, began like any other day. The sun was warm and shining bright in Pearl Harbor. Most people were relaxing, sailors on the decks of their ships enjoying the beautiful day. But before it was over ,this day was the day that was going to make American hearts ache for years. The attacks bought in new changes for everyone in America, to the economy to the way people felt about America. It was the day the United States was attacked and bought in a World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor made the American people realize they weren 't invincible to these type of foreign attacks.

This disassociation allows for the whole sale slaughter of people with moral justification. The unforeseen byproduct of this disassociation, as Cameron points out, can be seen in the 1950’s and 1960’s, when many veterans consigned their wives to the kitchen. The intended product of this disassociation, however, was to kill Japanese soldiers. The Marines would reap the benefits of this first in the Guadalcanal campaign of 1942. With the U.S. Marines of First Division engaged in a life or death struggle against their Japanese opponents, the cartoonish portraits of four-eyed, slow Japanese soldiers burned into the American Marine’s mind kept them from thinking about the enemy as men who are carrying pictures of their families eerily similar to the pictures that were carried by Americans. Using the invasion of Peleliu as a backdrop for his analysis, Cameron expands upon his analysis of the individual Marine to the collective thought of the organization. The U.S. Marine self-image caused Marine units on Peleliu to charge head-first into the waiting Japanese defense with foolhardy, head on assaults which they stubbornly pressed. The Marine Corps, even through their hyper-masculine indoctrination, had not prepared their Marines any better than their U.S. Army counterparts on the island. Before Peleliu, the perception of combat had been that of a clean affair due to the romanticized images of World War I. After, due to Tom Lea’s reporting of events, the

On August 6, 1945 uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima, within the first day of the bombings the effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima. The effects of the atomic bomb left many dead, homeless, and sacred. Even four months later people would die from radiation poisoning and discovering they had cancer now. Skin would be peeling off like bark on trees, this was a true horrifying sight. The United States were at war with japan but, does that justify what they did? Some would say what they did was inhuman and just plan wrong. They say there were other alternatives that the United Sates could have done. I believe there could have been a better way of ending the war with japan but I understand why the United States did what they did. The Japanese came out of nowhere and attacked the United States did they think that the US would just roll over and die? The should of known not to surprise attack one of the strongest nations. The needed to be put back in place and show the rest of the world that the US was one not to be reckon with.

1935 - Black Sunday, one of the historically worst dust storms in U.S. History, caused agricultural damage. President Roosevelt established insentive programs for farmers to promote more sustainable farming practices. (6)

The study of the time from September 1939 through June 1941 is crucial for understanding the creation of the “Final Solution”. Under the rule of Adolf Hitler, there was already some sort of anti-Semitism. Germans were convinced through propaganda that Jews were their enemy and the cause of all their turmoil. He had a clear hatred of Jews; they made him “Sick to [his] stomach” (pg 47). The oppression and segregation of Jews was applied in stages. . In just two years Nazi Jewish policy escalated rapidly from the prewar policy of forced emigration to the “Final Solution”. The term “Final Solution” refers to the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority". The genocide, of the Jews was the height of a decade of increasingly severe discriminatory measures that were put in place by the Germans.

Hofmann writes about the pride of the Americans deployed in the Philippines in October 1941. Everyone was assured in the quality and number of American servicemen, their Filipino Soldiers, along with the new equipment arriving from the United States. Hofmann recalls the conversations over drinks where Army Air Corps pilots brag about the advantage of the P-40 Warhawk and the capability of the new B-17 bombers to guarantee the Japanese never make it past the edges of Luzon. The Navy was extremely poised that their ships, even although they are older than the Japanese, but were superior. Another Naval officer briefed the sailors that amplified patrols of Navy ships and aircraft would an ample warning of Japanese forces headed toward the Philippines.

it was a bloody war with a death count over 60 million. Between the years 1939 to 1945, there was the holocaust which was a mass killing of Jews. (But the Religion is still alive today.) WWII was all around terrible and the US got caught up in a two front war. With Japan on one side and Germany and Italy on the other sides.

When World War II is mentioned, the images that are usually conjured up are those of soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, or island warfare on the volcanic ash of Iwo Jima. However, though these theaters of war may be well-known, they are not the only notable conflicts during the deadliest war the world has ever seen. The little-known Winter War, which lasted from November 30th, 1939 until March 13th, 1940, makes for an inspiring story that will likely never be topped.

World War II (1939 – 1945) was the second global conflict of the 20th century, which resulted in the deaths of millions. The devastating war was, like its precursor, the result of complex and historical political, economic and social tensions. It was the largest armed conflict in history, and desolated more civilians than ever before. Consequently, it shaped and determined the outcome of the modern world as we know it. Focusing on Germany, it is clear how their post-WWI treatment led to the birth of new totalitarian nation and the start of this Second World War. This area also makes clear what the aftershocks of such an intense war is and what the means of war result in. The economic, political and social causes and consequences will be examined, starting from the end of the First World War, up until years after the Second.