... for the military, government posts, or civilian jobs long before Pearl Harbor and the formal declaration of war. World War II had a profound and lasting impact on higher education in Kentucky. The GI Bill in Kentucky suddenly changed higher education in the state forever. At the end of World War II, three studies...

...The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 saw the introduction of game-changing naval strike technologies, among them the first Japanese introduction of aircraft voice radios, shallow-running torpedoes, armor-piercing bombs, advanced fuzes, and the use of dive bombers against fleet...

... into World War II, and mobilized support for the war while establishing a sense of responsibility for the postwar world. The critical moment came in the period between Roosevelt's reelection in 1940 and the Pearl Harbor attack, when he set out his view of the US as the arsenal of democracy, proclaimed his...

.... Barkley sponsored and shepherded the Lend-Lease bill through the Senate in 1941. Later that year Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Barkley Alben W congressional membership George Walter F Gillette Guy M Hatch Act New Deal Roosevelt Franklin D...

...After World War II, Barkley chaired the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. His committee’s recommendations were later fulfilled by passage of the National Security Act, which created the Central Intelligence Agency and what was ultimately called the Department...

...This chapter opens with the bombing of Pearl Harbor that catapulted Truman Smith out of retirement and back into his military duties. After receiving a call from George Marshall, Truman and Kay moved to Washington D.C. and Truman picked up his old position in the Pentagon. The chapter details...

... States did not understand Japan’s intentions. Later, when the Episcopal Church withdrew its entire missionary delegation from Japan, Rusch defiantly stayed in Tokyo. Days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Rusch and many of his friends were arrested by Japanese police. Christianity “Gandhi of Japan...

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...This chapter examines Hollywood war films that were based on actual events in the Pacific theater after Pearl Harbor and how they link those events into a coherent narrative. Examples of these films include They Were Expandable, Bombardier, and Wake Island...

... administration abandoned containment and embraced rollback, a policy that sought to drive Japan from China and break the Axis Alliance. This fundamental shift in American objectives led directly to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and brought on the war that neither Tokyo nor Washington sought....

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... and examines the films based on actual events in the Pacific theater after Pearl Harbor and how they linked those events into a coherent narrative. It also looks at the films' portrayal of America's British, Soviet, and Chinese allies and describes the films about countries under Nazi occupation. black market...

... in case it was attacked. Moreover, although he never gave his approval to any of the administration’s actions following Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease Act with Britain, he remained loyal to the constitutional system that sanctioned these actions. When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, Vandenberg...

... against Japan to include oil, bringing the final break in relations with Tokyo. By the fall 1941, the U.S. Navy was engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic with German submarines. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 brought the United States directly into World War II. Axis Alliance...