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Dominic Tucker

WWII Essay

3/18/19
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James Doolittle was a pioneering pilot,aeronautical engineer, Combat leader, and military

strategist. His key role in WWII is that he was one of the soldiers that went to the first bombings

on Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokohama. He was also leadership in three different flight crews the

twelfth air force,fifteenth air force and the, eighth air force.

Three thousand five hundred and seventy seven Americans died with one thousand one

hundred and seventy seven being on the Arizona.There were also over twelve hundred burned or

maimed americans from the attack. There were five battleships that were attacked but recovered

and repaired and they are the California, Maryland, Nevada,Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. There

were also three battleships that were sunk and never recovered which are the Arizona,the

Oklahoma,and the Utah.

The purpose of the Atomic Bomb was to kill a lot of japanese soldiers although the bomb

was way to effective and killed many civilians as well approximately 375,000 japanese people

died from the bomb that day. J Robert Oppenheimer invented the bomb that hit hiroshima and

Nagasaki.

America's industrialization skyrocketed during WWII industrialization is when an

economy becomes really experienced with machines and crafting of metal structures. It is said

that WWII actually helped america cure its great depression because all of the industries growing

and becoming more relevant opened up a lot of jobs for americans. An example of

industrialization today would be the manufacturing of vehicles.

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America's first organization was the America's First Committee the most famous member

in this organization was Charles Lindbergh. This organization was created on september 4th

1940 and ended december 10th 1941 and it was closed because they refused to help the allies and

only focused on America.

WWII by far had the highest combat deaths which was two hundred ninety one thousand

five hundred fifty seven ,WWI in second with fifty three thousand four hundred two, Vietnam

War in third with forty seven thousand four hundred twenty four, and the Korean War with thirty

three thousand six hundred eighty six.WWI lasted one year 1917-1918,WWII lasted four years

1941-1945,Korean War lasted three years 1950-1953, and the vietnam war lasted twenty years

1955-1975. Psychologically WWII was the worst on how soldiers did mentally soldiers were

scared to death such as on D'Day where they knew that most of them were going to die.

Women in WWII were asked to come and help with the manufacturing of things such as

clothes for soldiers and even vehicles such as tanks and planes. Women played a huge role in

WWII because a lot of the men were off at war which meant production back in America was

slower so women were asked to cme and help and they helped significantly and do to them doing

this and America realizing how equal and important women were they were given more rights

and made their lives much better.

Conscientious objectors are people who do not like to condone in violence which means

they are against it. An example of a conscientious objector is Desmond T. Doss in Hacksaw

Ridge, in case you do not know Desmond did not want to condone in violence not even want to

hold a weapon but he still wanted to serve and help people in the war so he became a combat

medic and his friends and fellow soldiers retreated off the ridge while they still had fellow
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soldiers on the ridge and Desmond ran around caring for people, and lowering them off of the

ridge and saving many lives. Today you cannot enlist in the military and be a conscientious

objector.

Anti-semitism is being hostile or prejudice to jews. Examples are Hitler and his army

attacking and raiding through jewish towns and forcing them out of their homes and putting them

into concentration camps to be worked to death or murdered in a gas chamber. Examples today

are telling rude and dark humor jokes and maybe even some people actually showing hatred

toward jewish people.

This essay talks about WWII and how people from many perspectives suffered and what

was attacked and where this essay also talks about the home life during WWII and how things

changed back at home.

References

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Editors, H. (2009, November 09). James H. Doolittle. Retrieved from

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