A young Jewish woman in World War III It was 1940, I was 23 years old, and there was a war going on. Everyone knew that Adolf Hitler, the German Fuhrer, was waging a campaign against several European countries. Months earlier he had started another war by invading Poland, and now it seemed he was conquering other countries as well1. There was talk about it, but not much was known specifically about what exactly was happening in Europe. The United States would not be involved in another major war. There were so many lives lost as a result of the first war, and the country was still feeling the effects of the Depression, that we could not afford to enter another war so suddenly. After all, to attack us Germany would have to cross the Atlantic Ocean; and since we were not directly involved in the war, they had no reason to attack us. Their war was in Europe, not here in the United States. There was almost a certainty that we would not take part in this war. What was more important was the fact that there were more important things happening in Brooklyn than just this war. People were looking for work and trying to make ends meet. The Great Depression had left many people without work and put many families in difficulty. This was one of the main reasons why people did not want to go to war, due to the disastrous effects left behind by the Great War. In 1941, there was a greater sense of war. People seemed to know more about the war and see how powerful and dangerous Hitler and Germany were. More and more people were starting to feel that America should take part in this war, yet most of us still thought it would be much safer and would be in the country's best interests... middle of paper... ...they exist, but more as patriotism towards one's country in a struggle that has only succeeded through national unity. Bibliography: Bibliography Anderson, Karen, Wartime Women, Wesport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1981 Cole, S. Wayne, Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War II, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974Cole, S. Wayne, America First, Madison, Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press 1953Kaufman, I, American Jews in World War II: The Story of 550,000 Fighters for Freedom vol.I, United States of America Dial Press 1947O'Neill, L. William , A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home & Abroad in World War II, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1993 Lyons , J. Michael, World War II: A Brief History, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall 1989