He was quoted saying, "A Jap is a Jap. ... Signs were posted saying things like "American Farmer... ... (Conrat 63) One incarcerated man was over heard saying, "we should have made ourselves known to our Caucasian neighbors, that we should have gone to the length of becoming 200% Americans" (Conrat10) This resembles the way the "Ozawa", in Okita's poem, feels when she says, "I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room." ... The 442nd Combat Team was a highly decorated all-Japanese unit stationed in Italy and France. ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: High School

Despite China's rejection and their resources being reduced,by the end of 1941 however, Japan had taken over French Indochina, formerly a french colonised region, in Southeast Asia. ... Isoroku Yamamoto won the approval from high commanders in the imperial navy,by saying he'd resign if they did not agree to this plan. ...

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Large areas of Belgium and France had been devastated and two of Europe's most powerful countries, Germany and Austria-Hungary, were defeated and exhausted. ... Calvin Coolidge epitomized the time when he was quoted saying, "The business of America is business,". ... America never ratified the treaty but Britain and France still enforced it. ... When Germany refused to pay all that was demanded, France and Belgium occupied the coalmines in the Ruhr industrial area. ...

• Word Count: 2446
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Then came the invasion of France, a much weaker nation than Germany, which broke the Treaty of Versailles signed by Germany after their defeat in World War I, which had many sanctions on Germany including the size of their army and who they could invade as well as the amount of weapons Germany could produce. France had collapsed and Britain was alone in Europe at this point, fighting off the Germans by themselves. ... No one thought that England could fight off Germany and the Nazis with France, Austria, Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands already been desecrated by Hitler's attacks. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Roosevelt eventually undercut the conference by saying that he had little interest in currency stabilization and by announcing that he would work for economic recovery in other ways. ... In the spring of 1940, after Germany had conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Roosevelt convened a special session of Congress and asked it to lift the embargo on the sale of weapons, a provision that primarily hurt the European countries opposed to Hitler and Germany, known as the Allies. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When asked to evaluate how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather a mere one hundred thousand, while the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. ... In the early stages of the war American Ambassador to London was quoted saying "It's the end of the world, the end of everything". ...

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