I. Introduction
a. Many people believe World War II simply occurred when a power-hungry dictator named Adolf Hitler blitzed into Poland with one goal—to gather every Jew and ship them to concentration camps to be gassed. While that may be true, many people don’t realize Germany’s economy nosedived after the country was punished for the events in World War I. Also, the Great Depression in the United States affected Europe, including Germany. This became the perfect breeding ground for low-life, toxic dictators like Hitler to emerge, and starry-eyed citizens celebrated their dictator’s ascent while hoping for a bright future for their country.
b. Thesis statement: Adolf Hitler invaded Poland instead of Austria because this provided the only
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However, Britain’s democracy isn’t the only one under attack by Hitler’s relentless hustle to occupy countries and turn them into Nazis. The British people, whether in London, other cities, and small villages, are affected by Hitler. Winston Churchill reflects on the air raid bombings in Britain and how the country is preparing its citizens for these air raid bombings, which he calls it as a crisis. Many people are concerned about their lives, homes, and loved ones and if they will survive. If these people are killed in the air raid bombings, that means people lose their loved ones prematurely. The preparations included holding people in air raid shelters, which Jose Harris states, “Moreover, aerial bombing and medical concentration on acute injury cases soon precipitated crisis in the treatment of long-term illness; and in 1940 air-raid shelter were becoming distressingly full of poor, chronically sick, homeless had nowhere else to go—a problem that forced the central government for the first time in British history to take direct financial responsibility for civilian medical and provision of hospital beds.” People and families weren’t just losing their lives or having to separate from their families to move to the countryside. The poor were going inside the shelter to seek comfort from the elements, and in addition, the government had to take action to think about the homeless and where they would go for shelter during the air