The Great Depression And The Beginning Of World War II

At the end of World War II, about seventy-two million people died. As tragic as this fact sounds, peace was still kept during and after the war. After the war, the formation of the United Nations helped negotiate and maintain peace, and during the war more jobs helped get the United States out of its biggest economic crisis, the Great Depression. Although, some economists argue that by creating more jobs during World War II, put America into even more debt than the country was already in. Standards of living lessened during the end of the Depression and the start of the war, but people understood the changed lifestyle was for a good cause. During World War II, The Great Depression and the United Nations helped create peace of mind in the†¦show more content†¦The Japanese attack brought the U.S. into the war on December 8—and brought it in the war determined to fight to finish (â€Å"Pearl Harbor†). President Franklin Roosevelt did not expect the beautiful island of Oahu to be turned into an ugly battle ground on an ordinary Sunday morning, and he therefore knew that he would not let Japan get away with what they had done, so his next step was to declare a war, and he was determined to fight hard until America has won the war. Finally, people can avoid war if they understand why it started. In his novel, A Separate Peace, John Knowles writes about why he feels war begins, â€Å"Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart† (Knowles201). John Knowles explains in his book that wars happen because people cannot undergo the feeling of envy, hate, anger, and stupidity, so instead of trying to make peace within themselves, they take it out into the world and let all feelings explode like bombs in a deadly battle. War should not be an answer to a problem, but without war, no one would want peace. The establishment of the United Nations started in October of