world war ii

year unemployment rate 1940 14.6 1941 9.9 1942 4.7 1943 1.9 1944 1.2 1945 1.9 1946 3.9 1947 3.9

a claim that is best supported by the unemployment rates included in the chart is that us involvement in WWII caused unemployment rates to decrease significantly us participation in WWII created jobs for americans

...I had then set up a committee of top men and had asked them to study with great care the implications the new weapons might have for us. It was their recommendation that the bomb be used against the enemy as soon as it could be done. They recommended that it should be used without specific warning and against a target that would clearly show its devastating strength. I had realized, of course, that an atomic bomb explosion would inflict damage and casualties beyond imagination. On the other hand, the scientific advisers of the committee reported, "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." It was their conclusion that no technical demonstration they might propose, such as over a deserted island, would be likely to bring the war to an end. It had to be used against an enemy target

according to truman the result of the committees meeting was that the decision was made to drop the atom bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki japan's failure to surrender during the summer of 1945 led to the reaction depicted or described in the document

In giving our approval to the declaration [Universal Declaration of Human Rights] today it is of primary importance that we keep clearly in mind the basic character of the document. It is not a treaty; it is not an international agreement...It is a declaration of basic principles of human rights and freedoms, to be stamped with the approval of the General Assembly by formal vote of its members, and to serve as a common standard of achievement for all peoples of all nations. ...At a time when there are so many issues on which we find it difficult to reach a common basis of agreement, it is a significant fact that 58 nations have found such a large measure of agreement in the complex field of human rights. This must be taken as testimony of our common aspiration first voiced in the Charter of the United Nations to lift men everywhere to a higher standard of life and to a greater enjoyment of freedom. Man's desire for peace lies behind this declaration. The realization that the flagrant violation of human rights by Nazi and Fascist countries sowed the seeds of the last world war has supplied the energy and strength for the work which brings us to the moment of achievement here today...

based on the excerpted speech the course of action that eleanor roosevelt most likely advocate for was that the united states government approve of the un declaration of human rights the key event influenced the speech excerpted was the genocides perpetrated by the nazi and facist countries during WWII

How About It, Dixie The President's Four Freedoms Appeal to me. I would like to see those Freedoms Come to be. If you believe In the Four Freedoms, too, Then share 'em with me— Don't keep 'em all for you.... Looks like by now Folks ought to know It's hard to beat Hitler Protecting Jim Crow. Freedom's not just To be won Over There. It means Freedom at home, too— Now— right here!

in this poem, langston hughes's is criticizing united states foeign policy during WWII and that claims of fighting for democracy abroad are inconsistent with segregation at home the desegregation of the us armed forces occurred after this poem was written

"yesterday, december 7th, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan'

the event being described by president franklin d roosevelt in his 1941 address to congress is the japanese attack on pearl harbor as a result of this event the united states entered wwii

[two images of adds one titled 'free! bomber trip to berlin' with more details below and a picture of a women in a plane another titled 'save waste fats for explosives' picture of pan pouring into a photo of bombs]

these illustrations were used during WWII to encourage women to conserve household products to support the war effort a claim that is best supported by these illustrations was that the us government saw the home front as an important resource in it's WWII war effort

. . . No one denies, of course, that there were some disloyal persons of Japanese descent on the Pacific Coast who did all in their power to aid their ancestral land. Similar disloyal activities have been engaged in by many persons of German, Italian and even more pioneer stock in our country. But to infer that examples of individual disloyalty prove group disloyalty and justify discriminatory action against the entire group is to deny that under our system of law individual guilt is the sole basis for deprivation of rights. Moreover, this inference, which is at the very heart of the evacuation orders, has been used in support of the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy.

this argument in this dissenting opinion suggests that by discriminating against minority groups, the us is similar to it's enemies in WWII after supreme court justice frank murphy wrote this dissent, mr korematsu was required to remain in a relocation camp

[photo of japanese family]

this photograph taken during WWII shows the relocation of japanese americans to internment camps this situation shown in this photograph was most directly the result of a presidential executive order during WWI

Authenticated information that the Nazis were systematically exterminating European Jewry was made public in the United States in November 1942. President Roosevelt did nothing about the mass murder for fourteen months, then moved only because he was confronted with political pressures he could not avoid and because his administration stood on the brink of a nasty scandal over its rescue policies. . . . Franklin Roosevelt's indifference to so momentous an historical event as the systematic annihilation of European Jewry emerges as the worst failure of his presidency

this source would be most useful to a person attempting to prove that franklin roosevelt ignored credible information about the mass murdering of jews based on the evidence presented in this claim the author's point of view is that franklin roosevelt could have intervened earlier to stop the holocaust