Racism
...y artillery and machine-gun fire. In the trenches, each side would fire from the trench. In between the trenches, there was "no man land," which was an area of land and was usually filled with land mines. The trenches protected the soldiers but they carried many diseases and rats. In document four the author describes the fighting that took place during World War I and the conditions of the trenches, and the noises they heard. In World War II, there were new weapons such as the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb could take out a whole city. The United States dropped the atomic bomb in Japan in the city of Hiroshima. Airplanes helped with World War II by making it easier to hit targets. During both wars, the United States was under attack. In World War I, a German U-boat sunk the merchant ship the Lusitania, killing many Americans. This made many Americans angry and wanted the United States to enter the war. In World...