The rifles along with the machine guns that they used.
The reason why cowboys were portayed like a solitary, strapping white men lies on the fact that that cowboy was a late romantic creation. Essentially, the represented the ideal of freedom.
1) German invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939: this started officialy World War II.
2) Soviet invasion to Poland on September 17th, 1939: Polish troops were focused on the German invasion, the Soviets quickly gained Eastern Poland.
3) Winter War started on November 30th, 1939: The Soviet Red Army inaded Finland with over 500,000 troops. Although the Finns risisted heroically, they were outnumbered and forced to cede 11 territories.
4) German attack on France started on May 10th, 1940. Germany began the attack against Belgium, Holland and France. On May 13th the german troops emerged form the Ardennes.
5) Soviet occupation of Latvia on June 17th, 1940: The Soviets formed a new government organizing elections with only one list of approved candidates.
False back then African Americans were not even allowed to read so how could they petitoned ? they were punished for knowing how to read if found out.
The main strategy that Churchillsuggest for keeping peace and stopping the growth of Nazi power was to militarily engage Germany as soon as it became aggressive.