This is how Churchill expressed inability to predict what Soviet Union will at the start of World War 2. The timeline below show why he could be puzzled:
a) August 23, 1939 - Soviet Union and Germany sign non-aggression pact
b) September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland (then ally of Britain and France).
c) September 3, 1939 - Britain declares war on Germany as a consequence of German's invasion of Poland.
d) September 17, 1939 - Soviet Union invades eastern Poland. Poland is defeated and partitioned between Germany and Soviet Union.
Therefore from Churchill standpoint: Soviet Union is allied with Germany, whom are at war with Britain. Go figure what Stalin is going to do?
The two men who were of Truman's role models were Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and politician who ruled the country as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War.
The engraving done by Paul Revere represented the Boston Massacre. This was when four unarmed colonists were killed by members of the British army. This incident happened shortly after a series of taxes were put on the American colonists.
Paul Revere depicted this event in an engraving that shows the American colonists as being brutally murdered by the British army. In the engraving, all the British military members have guns while the colonists are standing their defenseless. This inflamed public opinion because it showed the British army as monsters who killed colonists without a cause.
