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By Elena Reese

September 1, 1939: Today Germany invaded Poland. 

Everyone was buzzing about it because World War 2 

had officially began in Europe. This journal will help me 

keep up to date about the war. Hopefully America 

won't get involved. 

September 3, 1939: Great Britain and France 

declared war on Germany. American has no 

involvement whatsoever in this war yet.

September 7, 1939: 

Today my papa told me 

he thought Hitler was 

up to no good. Me and 

momma laughed at 

him. This man was the 

cover of Time 

magazine! I mean, 

what could he do that 

was no good? 

September 27, 1939: The Soviet Union and 

Germany are allies now due to the German-Soviet 

nonaggression pact. The Soviet Union invaded Poland 

from the East. Poland surrendered and it was divided 

between both Germany and The Soviet Union. 

June 22, 1940: Germany and Soviet Russia have 

invaded Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Western 

Europe. And now even Italy has joined the war 

and invaded Southern France! I have a bad 

feeling America wont be able to stay neutral the 

entire war. 

July 23, 1940: Right now an air war called the Battle 

of Brittan is taking place. It's between Brittan and 

Germany. I think Hitler needs to be defeated. He has 

attacked many other countries for little to no reason. 

October 31, 1940: The Battle of Brittan has ended in 

defeat for Germany. No one was sure who would win 

because the technology and the numbers were about 

the same, but since it was on British land they had 

something to really fight for.

November 30, 1940: The three main axis powers are 

Germany, italy, and Japan. They signed back in 

September, but now Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania 

join the axis. 

November 29th, 1940: The Germans broke the 

Nonaggression Pact with The Soviet Union, but the 

cold weather and the amount of land Soviet Russia 

had the Germans could not defeat the Soviets.

December 6, 1941: America has been trying to 

negotiate with Japan. They are very upset we 

stopped giving them oil. But today, they left without 

negotiation anything. 

December 8, 1941: Japan bombed Pearl Harbor 

today. It was horrific. We are probably going to go to 

war. If we have to go to war, my brother will have to 

go. I am scared for what is coming.

December 13, 1941: 

America has declared war 

on Japan and Germany and 

its axis parties have 

declared war on us. We 

went from neutral to a 

main part of this war. If 

Japan has already bombed 

us once, why wouldn't they 

bomb us again? Last year 

the Selective Service Act 

was put into place. My 

brother, George, wanted to 

register. However, he was 

too young. He will be old 

enough in less than a year.

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