Aleutian Islands Campaign

World War II brought great tension between two of the strongest countries during the 1940s: the United States and Japan. Conflict started with Japan’s push past Chinese borders into Manchuria in search of the natural resources that Japan needed. The United States avoided military action with Japan and instead decided to stop economic trade. One of these measures was the Neutrality Act, which prohibited the sale of weapons to nations at war (Nash 513). The United States tried several maneuvers on

withdraw from Indo-China. Early on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Japanese air and sea forces made a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a naval base of the United States. Simultaneously, Japan launched attacks on the Philippines, Guam, and Midway Island and against British forces in Hong Kong and the Malay Peninsula. There were eight battleships at pearl Harbor. The Arizona, California and Utah were sunk. The Nevada was grounded,

All U.S. aircraft carriers were elsewhere. On November 26 a Japanese task force, consisting of 6 carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, and several destroyers and tankers under command of Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo, departed in secret from the Kuril Islands. Observing radio silence, it reached a launching point at 6 AM, December 7. At 7:50 AM, the first wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbour, bombarding airfields and battleships moored at the concrete quays. A second wave followed. The surprise

Private James Jefferies was a member of The Royal Canada Army Service Corps and his service number was K/92907. He was born on the 11th of February, 1889 to George and Sarah Jefferies of Bristol, England and was the beloved husband of Mabel Jefferies, a Vancouverite. He died on the 13th of July, 1945 at the age of 56 due to injuries from enemy action. He is one of the 1,006 members of the RCASC that died during World War II. The Royal Canada Army Service Corps (RCASC), established November 1

In 1919, reports regarding naval officers and sailors engaging in homosexual acts with each other as well as civilians residing near the naval base located in Newport, Rhode Island. Sexual activity between members of the same sex was illegal at the time. Roosevelt wrote to the Justice Department to request an investigation into these acts, and a sting operation to collect evidence against these homosexual men was launched. Attractive

allowing the U.S to have an overseas base of operations in the Pacific Theater. When Japan invaded the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur was in command of the Commonwealth forces there. 3After the Japanese landed in Luzon, the Philippines’ largest island, General MacArthur withdrew to the Bataan Peninsula to reorganize a proper resistance for the Japanese invaders by delaying the Japanese invasion force and waiting to be relieved by American forces.4 However, MacArthur was ordered by President Roosevelt

my family doesn’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him – at the cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars – his scotch soul was furious” (Roosevelt). Here, President Roosevelt is able to portray his Republican opponents as

BLITZKRIEG (LIGHTNING WAR) In the first phase of World War II in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. These forces would

     BLITZKRIEG (LIGHTNING WAR)           In the first phase of World War II in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as

I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that Republican fiction writers had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian