Wars during Louis Steyerman’s life • • • •
Civil War – 1861 – 1865 Spanish American War - 1898 World War I – 1914 – 1919 World War II – 1941 – 1945 World War II started as a result of the Aggressive invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 & the Aggressive Invasion of China by Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against the axis countries Germany & Japan after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Louis Steyerman tried to get his 80 year old sister out of Germany in 1939 after Poland was invaded by Germany. During this war, Hitler’s Nazi Party exterminated approximately 6 million Jews.