WW2- American Perspective

The Germans had a powerful army in the 1930's led by a very powerful leader named

Adolf Hitler. He was a greedy man who wanted everyone to have blonde hair and blue

eyes. He wanted everyone the same and to be the only leader in the world. Hitler started his

conquest for land in 1938 when he annexed Austria followed by threatening Czechoslovakia. When Hitler increased his demands on the Czechs, war seemed almost

certain. The British and French had meetings with Hitler and Mussolini but they could not stop them from putting demands on other countries. Soon after the meetings Hitler captured Czechoslovakia and seized a former German port. He moved on by putting demands on Poland and the Polish Corridor. In September 1939, France and Britain agreed to support Po

First of all Japan had no natural resources in their country therefore, they relied on oil products from the US. On July 27 1941, President Roosevelt stopped all trading with the Japanese. This meant Japan had no fuel to run their military forces. Japan forces then went and attacked the East Indies and took over all of their fuel. Shell was the company that owned most of the fuel products in the East Indies. Shell's head office was in England which led European forces to be involved in the war against Japan and Germany. When the US stopped trading with Japan they took this as a hostile act but, Japan still tried to make peace with them. A Japanese ambassador even asked for a peace discussion with the secretary of state. The meeting did not go threw with the two nations. Japan then attacked Atu (an island off of Alaska), in hopes to draw the American forces up North which was proved ineffective. Soon after this they planned out a sneak attack on Pearl Harbour, a military base for the Americans in Hawaii. The Americans had a small idea that the Japanese might attack them. On the morning of December 7, 1941, a flight of planes were detected, but the people in Pearl Harbour were told that they were US fighter planes coming in from California. Soon after that a Japanese submarine was discovered in the waters South of Hawaii. An American destroyer was sent out to destroy the submarine, which it did. Soon after, the planes that had been detected earlier were in fact, Japanese forces. They launched their bombes on Pearl Harbour and destroyed 3/4 of the ai

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