![]() ![]() In 1940, Japan saw an opportunity to expand further its empire in East Asia and signed the Tri-Partite Pact with Germany and Italy, creating the Tokyo-Rome-Berlin Axis. In response to Japanese aggression in Asia, the United States imposed economic embargos and deployed its Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor. Military actions by the Japanese in China, the Italians in Ethiopia and the Germans in Poland sowed the seeds of global war, what will be known as World War II. The rise of Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, and Militarism in Japan led to global destabilization and threatened all the democracies.Ī stock market crash, Black Friday, sent the United States into economic depression. As Japan’s population increased and its economy worsened, the Japanese military influence grew. This would soon fuel the rise of fascism and communism in Europe and militarism in Japan, which in turn inflamed racism and imperialism. World War I left behind poverty, devastation and desperation. President Woodrow Wilson had warned: “I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it”. ![]() World War I which was to be the “War to End All Wars” failed to create a lasting peace. The US Navy then commissioned her as USS Schurz and placed her on convoy duty before sinking, June 21 st, 1918, due to a collision with a freighter off the coast of North Carolina. Needless to say, there was a strong Anti-German feeling at the time. The first German prisoners of war taken by the United States were the crew of the gunboat Geier, interned in Honolulu harbor when World War I broke out. Manpower for sugar production was surprisingly more critically needed than soldiers, reason why the draft quotas of Hawaii were limited to the strict logistical minimum. The National Guard of Hawaii replaced the Regular Army garrison regiments at Schofield Barracks and other Hawaiians volunteered for war service. ![]() Many Hawaiians served in World War I and will serve in World War II as well. ![]()
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