2 edition of Another view of World War Two found in the catalog.
Another view of World War Two
|Statement||by Vern Craney.|
|Genre||Anecdotes., Personal narratives, American.|
|LC Classifications||D763.I8 C76 2007|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||118 p. :|
|Number of Pages||118|
|LC Control Number||2007907403|
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When events began happening in Europe that would eventually lead to World War II, many Americans took an increasingly hard line toward getting involved. The events of World War I had fed into the United States' natural desire of isolationism, and this was reflected by the passage of Neutrality Acts and the general hands-off approach to the events that unfolded on the world stage. In a world filled with sinful people (Romans ), war is inevitable. Sometimes the only way to keep sinful people from doing great harm to the innocent is by going to war. In the Old Testament, God ordered the Israelites to “take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites” (Numbers ).
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