HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nanking Massacre, The Saturday Evening Post
13 Dec 2017
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Our international presence today was shaped by wwii. Us got off relatively easy compared to others. 21 million russian soldiers will die in wwii (8% of their population) this doesn"t include civilians. They experience the highest death rate in war: international and political strife. Why we fight 1942 frank capra (also director of it"s a wonderful life : a series of seven of information films. World was sudden divided evil and slavery versus good and freedom. Way to push us to support foreign wars and triumph: under the international ideology of promise of democracy and how americans are the keepers of it. Men walking across europe in nazi uniforms. The looks aren"t the problem it is their ideology. Compared to europe and other nations usa could stay neutral. Others argue that people could see it coming before then. In 1933 hitler takes power (completely legally, he was elected) 1937 international war in spain"s civil war: adolf hitler and german re-armament.
