Sentimental Imperialists: America in Asia This video examines American attitudes toward Asia from 1776 to the present: the merchants, missionaries, and Marines who-however well-intentioned-often saw in Asia and Asians what they wanted to see, rather than the realities of those cultures and peoples. ... Taft later became an American president. American politics affected the islands as Taft and his successors were unwilling to delegate very much authority to the Filipinos. ... Inside Japan Japan's post-war economic growth comes in the context of an increasingly interconnected global e...

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Since America supplied more than half of Japan's iron, steel, and oil, Japan was hesitant to push the United States too far. ... American intelligence tapped into Japan's phone lines and knew of an attack on America but never suspected Pearl Harbor. By the time the Japanese's planes returned to their carriers at 9:45, most of the American planes on Oahu were wrecked. ... A few days later, American dropped another bomb in Nagasaki, Japan. In the conclusion of the war America defended their country as well as defeating Japan. ...

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Relocation Centers of Japanese-Americans (1942-1943) Throughout the spring and summer of 1942, the United States Government planned and carried out without serious incident, one of the largest controlled migrations in history. This was the migration of almost 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese decent from their homes on the Pacific coast into ten wartime communities constructed in remote areas between the Sierra-Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River. ... For a small portion of the Japanese evacuees, these standards were an improvement to their normal quality of living. ... His o...

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Pearl Harbor was one of the most vicious attacks on American soil. ... The United States responded by creating Japanese-American Internment Camps, which uprooted tens of thousands of Japanese-American families. And later America decided to use atomic weapons to end the war with Japan. ... This called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans for up to four years, most of which were legal U.S. citizens. ... The conditions were so harsh that some Japanese Americans died. ...

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America feared that her Philippine and Guam islands would soon fall into Japan conquest. ... The attack raised the morale of the American and Australia forces as Japan seemed invincible. Japan thought of a strategy to down America. ... By 1945, the American marines had taken control of the Jima; a Japanese island. ... Japanese on the other hand tried to hold on to their agenda but they could not resist the American power. ...

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The Japanese dropping bombs on American soil was like a kid kicking a hornet's nest. One negative consequence was the creation of Japanese internment camps. Since the Japanese were the one's responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and were one of the allie's enemies, Japanese living in America were prejudged. The government accused many American-Asians of spying and conspiring with Japan. ... Although there was n direct violence, it was still traumatizing to be "kidnapped" by the government, as most Japanese-Americans were. ...

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., Japanese aircraft carried out a huge surprise attack on the big American air and naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... This attack destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet. ... American participation was an important reason why the Allied nations defeated the Axis nations, which were headed by Japan and Germany. ... This attack destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet. ... American participation was an important reason why the Allied nations defeated the Axis nations, which were headed by Japan and Germany. ...

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A separate group of submarines was to sink any American warships which escaped the Japanese carrier force." ... The purpose of the simultaneous attacks was to destroy the American planes before they could rise to intercept the Japanese." ... The United States immediately answered back by bombing the heart of Japan as they did to America. ... The United States did, however, get involve in some complications with the Japanese, only to protect the future of America. ... America never wanted to actually go to war until the vicious attack from the Japanese. ...

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One greatly argued reason that we should not have dropped the bomb is that prior to it's fall, a minimum if six American war leaders were having second thoughts about it's use (3). ... Thirdly, the Chief of Staff to President Truman himself felt that the bomb would be "of no material help", that Japan was "already defeated and ready to surrender" (7). ... In addition, the Secretary to the Japanese War Minister shared in an interview in 1963 that if the Americans had just made a second and possibly third attack on Japan, the small country would quickly run out of food, supplies, and w...

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Asian Americans went through crippling acts of inequality that put America's wartime ethics into question. The Japanese bombing of pearl harbor that pushed America into WW II brought a large persecution of Asian Americans along with it. Many Japanese were involuntarily moved to internment camps during the war to lessen the fear of a Japanese threat on the homefront. This led to many having speculation whether the placing of the japanese in internment camps was constitutional or not, and if the U.S had any good reason to place the Japanese in internment camps (Doc 4). The government, while...

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Stinnett's book gives proof that American Naval intelligence had broken the Japanese code about 15 months before the attack. ... Stinnett uncovered the truth by reading American naval intelligence radio intercepts of the Japanese transmissions. ... Second, he required American companies to obtain a government license before selling any petroleum products or scrap metal to Japan. For the next 12 months, the administration eagerly granted export permits to American firms selling raw materials to Japan. "Japanese oil tankers and merchant vessels could be seen loading up on scrap iron and...

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In doing this, the Cubans would allow American investments to continue in the country and Spain would have no right to shut America out. ... Secondly, America's economy rested on foreign markets. ... Instead, "what brought the United States fully into war was the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941." ... (Zinn, 411) China provided the U.S. with tin and rubber, and when Japan started to move into China America felt threatened. (Zinn, 410) As a result, the United States cut off Japan's supply of its resources, iron and oil, awa...

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Before Pearl Harbor was attacked, America was very scared that Japan might attack the US because of all the neighboring islands in the Pacific that were attacked. The US was right; Japan planned to attack America. ... The Japanese were very cruel to the people in the places the Japanese attacked. The Japanese brutality really upset the American public. ... After Pearl Harbor was bombed, the American people felt a lot of hatred towards the Japanese. ...

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Roosevelt had to make a decision regarding how to handle the sizable Japanese-American population on the west coast. ... Roosevelt's infamous solution to this problem was Executive Order #9066, which authorized the internment of between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese Americans on the pacific coast. ... Fred Korematsu refused to obey the wartime order to leave his home and report to a relocation camp for Japanese Americans. ... It's important too to note that the historical context of this internment is that it followed the Niihau Incident, which caused the east coast to be hyperaware a...

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American military Aviation in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. ... (Overy 277) For most of the 1930's the United States traded as openly with Germany and Japan, as it did with any other country. Japan relied on fuel oil and scrap iron until 1941. ... The Americans upon declaring its Neutrality gave additional encouragement to Japan and Germany to in a way take over the world. ... This also led Japan to confront the United States in 1941. ...

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Economic expansion refers to increasing the American market overseas, which in turn guarantees jobs for the American middle class. ... The actual involvement of America in the war did not occur until 1917. ... The attack resulted in 128 American deaths (Lawson, 35). ... The British sent the decoded message to America. ... The Allies did not depend on the American military nor on the American armaments. ...

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Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? ... In late 1939, President Roosevelt ordered an American effort to make an atomic bomb before Germany. ... On his way back to the United States, President Truman ordered American fliers to drop an atomic bomb in Japan. ... The Japanese government told the people of Japan that it was a "special-type bomb." ... He said: "It was a question of saving hundreds of thousands of American lives. ...

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These military camps were created to house Japanese Americans during World War II. ... In order to ensure the safety of the American population, over one hundred thousand Japanese Americans were put into camps. ... Frank Murphy said, there was no evidence against the Japanese Americans proving them to be an "immediate, imminent, impending" threat to other American citizens, because it was only their heritage connecting them to Japan. ... " These Japanese Americans had not broken any laws and yet they were put in camps. ... Although America did not kill the Japanese Americans, th...

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For awhile there had been tension between Japan and America,the bombing of Pearl Harbor, officially was the boiling point for America who was initially neutral,but chose to join the Allies and declare war on Japan. ... America wanted Japan to stop attempting to take over China and Indonesia,because the US did not want them to expand their empire. ... Because of America,The Netherlands and The UK freezing and reducing the materials they gave them, this angered Japan, and Japan's anger was a key reason behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor and why Japan decided to it. ... Although Japan f...

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The bomb quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of the American involvement in World War II. ... Also the American soldiers were going through very harsh treatment by the Japanese. ... The Japanese would not surrender to the Americans, they would rather die than surrender. ... Also the American soldiers were going through very harsh treatment by the Japanese. ... The Japanese would not surrender to the Americans, they would rather die than surrender. ...

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I assume that the Patriot act was created by patriotic Americans with "good intentions," those good intentions being the safety of the American people as well as to try to prevent another terrorist attack. ... In the 1940s, for example, Congress wanted to keep America safe from Japan. ... (Something very similar to what President Bush and Sec. of State Ashcroft are doing) This executive order basically forced all American citizens of Japanese heritage to temporarily move to "relocation camps". ... All came about when there was widespread concern and hysteria over the security of America (Pearl...

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Although the Japanese got the best of the attack the Americans didnt take it laying down. ... For a split second Japan thought they had broken America's backbone, but at the time they didnt realize what America stood for. ... It was one of the first times that Americans had came all together for a reason. This had affected a lot of Americans lives. They put all the Japanese Americans into camps because they thought that they might have been involved with giving information to the Japanese. ...

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American B-29s dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... However, the protection of American lives as well as the refusal of the Japanese nation to surrender are the most credible grounds for the use of the A-bomb to end WWII. ... An attack which Americans would not soon forget. ... According to American General H. ... The President wanted to save American lives and force a quick surrender of the Japanese. ...

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This provided an interesting opportunity for the role of women in America. ... However, the most severe examples of racial stereotypes were those embodied by the treatment of Japanese-Americans after the attacks on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt issued an executive order that required all Japanese-Americans on the west coast to sell their property in a matter of days and report to be transported to internment camps for the duration of the war. ... Negative effects were much more dubious such as the subjugation of Japanese Americans and the isolation of people who spoke out against America&#...

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Eight American battleships and 13 other naval vessels were sunk or badly damaged and almost 200 American aircraft were destroyed. ... The Americans believed a Japanese attack was imminent, most likely somewhere in Southeast Asia. ... The Americans were taken completely by surprise. ... It instantly united the American people behind the war effort, dashing all Japanese hopes for a negotiated peace. ... Japan was stripped of all conquests, reduced to its home island, and occupied by American forces. ...

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