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. ... As Richard Overy notes in The Road To War, this growing division from Europe was not mere selfishness. ... American investments in Germany increased by forty per cent between 1936 and 1940 America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had diminished during World War 1. ...

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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. ... However on December 7th, 1941 at roughly 1:30 am,the US Army base in Washington decoded a message from Japan which implied war. ... The US army sent a last minute message to Lieutenant/General Walter Short and Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel about the note, which did not arrive to Hawaii until after hours of the assault on Pearl Harbor. ... Even people who were merely 1/16 Japanese were placed in internment ...

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John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961-1963), was the youngest person ever to be elected president. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His broth...

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