2. Imagine that the following situations have occurred in your community following the disaster. Select TWO of the following situations to address and evaluate in your email (each will be a paragraph long-see step 3) Only Choose TWO below

. -The government forced people to evacuate from their homes

• The government prevented the press from publishing graphic photos of victims of the natural disaster.

-The government allowed federal and state troops to be quartered in private residences to assist residents and protect order.

-Citizens were denied the right to bring legally owned firearms to storm shelters.

• The government made certain dangerous areas off-limits, which prevented residents from accessing their homes and personal property

-Prisoners were kept in prisons that lacked power supplies, and plumbing during the emergency

on this day in 1939, in response to hitler’s invasion of poland, britain and france, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on germany.

the first casualty of that declaration was not german—but the british ocean liner athenia, which was sunk by a german u-30 submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent. there were more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of whom lost their lives. of those, 28 were americans, but president roosevelt was unfazed by the tragedy, declaring that no one was to “thoughtlessly or falsely talk of america sending its armies to european fields.” the united states would remain neutral.

as for britain’s response, it was initially no more than the dropping of anti-nazi propaganda leaflets—13 tons of them—over germany. they would begin bombing german ships on september 4, suffering significant losses. they were also working under orders not to harm german civilians. the german military, of course, had no such restrictions. france would begin an offensive against germany’s western border two weeks later. their effort was weakened by a narrow 90-mile window leading to the german front, enclosed by the borders of luxembourg and belgium—both neutral countries. the germans mined the passage, stalling the french offensive.

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