Assignment on General Peoples War

Running head: PEOPLE’S WAR
PEOPLE’S WAR
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Author Note

1PEOPLE’S WAR
The Axis power and the Allied power that fought against each other at the backdrop of World
Wars had repeatedly told the general public that it was a war between the imperialists. However,
with the growing instances of terrible fascism, totalitarianism, tyranny, ultra-nationalism and
institutional racism, the imperialist war turned into a “people’s war” that fought against the evil
power of Hitler to liberate the lives from the tyranny of him and his government. All the
Americans, irrespective of their political bent, class, race or socio-economic background
declared the war as “people’s war”.
However, if the annals of history is noted and observed, it would be clear that America had
always been a democracy with certain magnitude of liberties, whereas, Germany was a complete
totalitarian dictatorship that had been persecuting its Jewish minorities and other ethnic
minorities to uphold the imaginary concept of supremacy of the Aryan Nordic race. The Anti-
Semitism sentiment of Germany was equivalent to the Anti- black sentiments of America. It also
has to be admitted that the US did very less about the fascist policies taken up by the Fuhrer. The
US had joined hands with England and France to appease Hitler government. The intentions of
the US government could have been clear by observing the help which the US did to Italy by
sending them oil during Mussolini’s fascist regime that the US government might be completely
involved and intended to increase their imperialistic wing and carry out their capitalist business
even by supporting the fascist countries. The Anti- Soviet policy taken by America in the thirties,
and suddenly, a change in course of action by formulating Anti- Nazi policy after getting
pressurized from Japan and Germany of world interests clearly shows that America was only
concerned about its imperialist conquests and gains and nothing else.
Japan’s deadly attack on the American naval base at the Pearl Harbor was a threat to the
Imperialistic interests of America which was the main reason why America declared resistance