December8 th 1941 The Holly SpringsTimes Table of Contents Page 1- Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor Page 2- Japans Invasion of China Page 3 – Letter to the Editor Page 4- Recap: Battle of Just before 8 am yesterday morning, a whole fleet of Japanese airplanes attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted only two hours, but the results were horrifying. Many men were trapped as chaos erupted, and smoke was everywhere. Bystanders could only watch as 20 American naval vessels were destroyed, along with 8 enormous battleships, and 200 airplanes. As of today we have a death count of over 2000 men dead, and 1000 more injured. These men died watery, and firey deaths. At 8:10am the Japanese dropped an 1800-pound bomb on the USS Arizona that landed in her forward ammunition magazine, causing her to blow up and sink with more than 1000 men trapped inside. This “I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again...With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God. ~ Roosevelt Congress accepted Roosevelt’s proposal of war today, and after years of discussion and debate the American people are now united in our determination to go to war. JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR!!
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December8th 1941
The Holly SpringsTimes
Table of Contents
Page 1- Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
Page 2- Japans Invasion of China
Page 3 –Letter to the Editor
Page 4- Recap: Battle of Britain
Page 5- Spotlight on WW2 Leaders
Just before 8 am yesterday morning, a whole fleet of Japanese airplanes attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted only two hours, but the results were horrifying. Many men were trapped as chaos erupted, and smoke was everywhere. Bystanders could only watch as 20 American naval vessels were destroyed, along with 8 enormous battleships, and 200 airplanes.
As of today we have a death count of over 2000 men dead, and 1000 more injured. These men died watery, and firey deaths. At 8:10am the Japanese dropped an 1800-pound bomb on the USS Arizona that landed in her forward ammunition magazine, causing her to blow up and sink with more than 1000 men trapped inside. This once magnificent ship is now beyond repair, as well as the families of the fallen.
Today President Roosevelt addressed this horrifying event to congress.
“I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again...With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God. ~ RooseveltCongress accepted Roosevelt’s proposal of war today, and after years of discussion and debate the American people are now united in our
determination to go to war.
JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR!!
The USS Arizona after bombing
Just before 8 am yesterday morning, a whole fleet of Japanese airplanes attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted only two hours, but the results were horrifying. Many men were trapped as chaos erupted, and smoke was everywhere. Bystanders could only watch as 20 American naval vessels were destroyed, along with 8 enormous battleships, and 200 airplanes.
As of today we have a death count of over 2000 men dead, and 1000 more injured. These men died watery, and firey deaths. At 8:10am the Japanese dropped an 1800-pound bomb on the USS Arizona that landed in her forward ammunition magazine, causing her to blow up and sink with more than 1000 men trapped inside. This once magnificent ship is now beyond repair, as well as the families of the fallen.
Today President Roosevelt addressed this horrifying event to congress.
The USS Arizona after bombing
Letter to the EditorDear Editor,
I am disappointed in our country. It has been seven years since the Holocaust began and the United States has done nothing to stop it.
Everyday thousands of Jewish people like myself are being murdered, tortured, starved, and oppressed. Concentration camps are being built; even death camps are under construction! The European Jews live in fear of their own lives! There are no words to describe the evil of what is happening. Its as if the devil himself has been reincarnated into one Adolf Hitler.
My question is, how can the United States sit around and watch this happen? How can a whole nation with the power to change things choose not to? We should go to war if not for the people than for the threat of totalitarian regimes that are occupying basically half of Europe. There is real horror going on across the Atlantic and they need a hero.
-Briana Chesvik
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JAPANS INVASION OF CHINA
In July of 1937, the Japan-China war started after the Japanese claimed that they had been shot at by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. Armed with this excuse, the Japanese casted a full-fledged invasion of China using their already conquered land in Manchuria as a launching base for their troops.
The Chinese put up little resistance against the Japanese. But former political opponent known as the Guomintang did resist the Japanese but ended up being out-numbered and out-gunned. So by November 1937, Shanghai, Chinas most important port fell to the enemy, as well as Nanjing, Chiang Kai-sheks capital.
Known as the “Rape of Nanking”, this bloody incident has gone down in history as being the most shocking things to ever happen. Its senior officers actually let the Japanese army ransack Nanking while murdering thousands of people. The final death toll came out to be around 250,000. This forced the Guomintang leader to establish a new capital in Chongqing.
The Japanese were relentless. In five months, one million Chinese people were under Japanese control. By the end of 1937, Japan took over all the major cities in China, well as the major communication systems within the nation.
After so much success the Japanese didn’t advance much further into China. There wasn’t really a good reason to do so because most of Chinas hinterland had almost no advantages.
While the Japanese are actively fighting the Guomintang, until recently weren’t aware of the other enemy, communist guerrillas trained by Mao. The American people should be watching Japan very closely after the devastation of yesterday, the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Japanese troops holding Chinese people at gunpoint during the “Rape of Nanking”
Japanese troops holding Chinese people at gunpoint during the “Rape of Nanking”
Spotlight on ww2 Leaders
Benito Mussolini of Italy
-Claimed full power in November 1926 after all rival political parties and opposition newspapers were banned in Italy.
-Major accomplishment: formed the first facist government in Italy
““Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.” ~Mussolini
Adolf Hitler of Germany
-Declared himself “Fuhrer in August 1934
-Major accomplishment: created the Third Reich, a police state in charge of the imprisonment of “political and Ideological opponents”
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, and assassination. This is the war of the future.” ~Hitler
Hideki Tojo of Japan
-Appointed to Prime Minister in 1941
-Major accomplishment: authorized attack on Pearl Harbor
“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.” ~Tojo
Joseph Stalin of Russia
-Became Dictator in 1929
-Major accomplishment: transformed Russia from a peasant society into an industrial superpower.
“Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.” ~Stalin
Winston Churchill of Britain
-Became Prime Minister on May 10th, 1940
-Major accomplishment: Won the Battle of Britain
“Never in the field on human conflict, was so much owed to so few” ~Churchill