1941
was a terrifying year
if you were living in North America,
specifically the United States,
with war happening all around and fear spreading like wildfire,
the
threat of Naziism had swept through the world like a plague of
death
and decay, and nobody was safe from the wrath of Hitler and his forces,
his panzers, the Luftwaffe, his hordes of infantry, the precision,
the precision of his tactics causing ripples and rumours from one side of
the
world
to the other, and no one, not Canada, nor any of her allies, seemed safe -

Then,
German forces began to spread, moving outwards in all directions, their
only thought being of following orders, of controlling as much land
as was humanly possible, and the complete and utter annihilation of all
'inferiour races',
they were succeeding in their ruler's wishes, and Jews all over Europe
were being tortured and murdered, even Jews who were German weren't
safe from the concentration camps being run for Hitler
by his followers, and
Hitler laughed in glee with the death of these millions of people,
for he wanted only Germans to survive this
Second World War,
and it appeared that he would be right -

In December, a time when people should be looking forward to Christmas,
Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise attack by the Japanese, and
the world seemed to turn upside down, and the only country in the world
that everyone thought was invincible took a staggering blow, and they never
saw it coming, those Americans,
they didn't know that they weren't invincible, and the paid the price for
it,
and only then did America join her brethren on the battlefields,
and her forces joined Canadians, the English and the French
in the war against Hitler,
and new hope surged in the peoples of the west,
for they now had a fighting chance, and the Nazis would be defeated,
or so the propaganda read, but it was right,
hope survived,
and Hitler's reign over the eastern half of the world appeared to be waning
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