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Sep 29, 2023 · The headline above the map from 1937 screams: If we Enter a World War—and LOSE! The map explains which parts of U.S. territory could be gobbled up by the victors of that alternate WWII and why ...
California in United States. California during World War II was a major contributor to the World War II effort. California's long Pacific Ocean coastline provided the support needed for the Pacific War. California also supported the war in Europe. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, most of California's manufacturing ...
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This remarkable cartographic artifact illustrates one of the more far-fetched reasons for staying out of the coming World War: should America end up on the losing side, that could result in the dismemberment of the United States, à laPoland in previous centuries or Austria-Hungary and Germany after the First World War. The headline above this map f...
The occupied/annexed Yellow Zone would include all but the most easterly strips of Washington and Oregon, all of California, western parts of Nevada and Arizona, plus the entirety of Alaska, captioned (on the map inset on the bottom-right): “Rich Alaskan mineral, lumber and fur resources taken over by a conqueror.” The legend next to Hawaii, also i...
That leaves a Green Zone in the north, in two parts, as the final giveaway. First, the zone around the Great Lakes, including Wisconsin, Michigan, and part of Minnesota: “a big prize for one of the victors — minerals, foodstuffs, shipping outlets.” Then, there is a section of the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, C...
This map appeared on Sunday, November 28, 1937, on the front page of a supplement to the Chicago Herald and Examiner(“a paper for people who think”). It was also published in many other newspapers of the Hearst media empire. Although the map describes a future that never happened, maybe it did have an impact on the things to come — if only on the f...
Jul 27, 2020 · In the long run, Hitler (and the rest of the German government) believed that confrontation with the United States was virtually inevitable. The U.S. had intervened in 1917 on behalf of Russia ...
The images in this topic provide a look at the everyday lives of Californians just before, during, and shortly after the years that the United States entered World War II. Although many men and women joined the military, many stayed home. These photographs show men, women, and children at work—many in war-related industries—at play, and at ...
Sep 21, 2019 · At 2:25 a.m. on Feb. 25, 1942, the people of Los Angeles woke up to sirens. Every light in the city was extinguished. Spotlights searched the sky above as bombs exploded overhead, filling the horizon with smoke and scattering debris across the city. Dressed in their pajamas, Angelenos stood on their porches, squinting upward to see the battle ...
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Aug 26, 2022 · Sadly, the war also ignited long-smoldering anti-Asian prejudice, culminating in the worst mass violation of civil rights in the state’s history. In the spring of 1942, California’s Japanese American population was deported by government order to a series of internment camps in remote sections of the western United States.
