Using your knowledge of the time period and your analysis of the documents linked below, answer the question:
Who and or what is responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor?
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2 comments:
1.The cultural factors in the U.S. Policy toward the Nazi “final solution” was that the U.S was concerned about the effects that taking in the refugees would prose on the public, and it was apparent that public opinion had a great influence. Economically the U.S. Was concerned about the necessity of jobs that would be demanded, and the tole that the new census would take on agriculturally. Lastly politically the U.S. Seemed concerned with the way that Germany should be dealt with, because the U.S. Did not want to jeopardize their status, and stability by dealing with the Germans in a bad way.
2.There is a long extent in which the United States can be held accountable for the Holocaust, and the most important factor would be the fact that policy's attempted to allow refugees to have visas died in congress, and the president had chose to lean toward public opinion, and the necessity to preserve the “stability” of the nation.
3.The President can be held accountable, because he thought too highly of the influence of public opinion, and served as an accessory to an organized attempt for genocide, without thinking about the consequences on a humanitarian level.
4.The U.S should have not been so naïve and self-absorbed because they were more worried about what Germany could do to them, and think of them, rather than analyze the big picture of what was going on, and all those that were affected, and most importantly the reputation that the U.S. had brought upon itself.
1.Cultural factors included anti-semitism which caused violence during pre-war and war. American Jewish press was aware of the "nazi solution" but the government influenced the media in avoiding the subject.Americans also referred back to World War I when they inflated the atrocities of Europe,leaving them skeptical. Economically unemployment rates were high leading to anti-immigration.
2.The U.S. can largely be accounted for for the Holocaust. Congress ignored the decision to admit Jewish refugee children. Most of the influence probably came from the American public which did not consider providing help for the soon to be victims.
3.Roosevelt can be held only a small extent accountable. He had to worry about issues with Japan and being prepared for war. Too much was on his hands between the public and political duties. He was in a tough situation.
4.The U.S. should have held the immigrants in an occupied area until they believed it was secure enough to migrate them into American society. On top of that, they should have listened to the Jewish American intelligence and plotted to end the extermination c amps.
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