October, 2001

The Road to Victory

To start out I would like to say that this was a bloody war. Still we won it because we were the strongest most powerful free country. We are the United States.

In a way this war helped us. World War II brought us out of the depression. How, you ask. Well, when World War II was declared, it opened up new jobs. People went into these jobs and got money.

Women were mostly the ones working. Most of the men went into war. Women served as nurses, cooks, clerks, and mechanics. Though women were paid unfairly, they still worked. Some women quit but other did not because they were Soldiers Without Guns.

Finally in the winter of 1945 we surrounded Germany. Russia, England, France, and the United States did it. When we were coming to take over Germany, Hitler committed suicide.

The war was not over though. We had one problem – the Japanese. In the spring of 1945 President Harry Truman made a decision to bomb Japan. Still what if we didn't bomb them. Would war still be going on today?

by George
A-6
Petersen School

Site of WWII posters: http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html

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