During World War II Japanese Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. ... Public newspapers ran stories about outrage against Japanese Americans by Californians. They wrote stories about how Japanese Americans are responsible for Pearl Harbor. ... One hundred twenty thousand Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps. ... The Japanese Americans were held in detention camps for three years from 1942-1945. ...

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America, Great Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic composed the main Allied powers while Germany, Italy and Japan composed the main powers Axis powers. ... For America, there were many great heroes and many great military leaders. ... Emperor Hirohito and an ensemble of behind-the-scenes Admirals led the military strategy of Japan. Japanese fighter pilots employed a destructive war technique. ... Luckily for the free world, the Allied forces persevered and stomped out the threat of the Nazis and the Japanese. ...

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American military Aviation (AMA) in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. ... Japan relied on fuel oil and scrap iron until 1941. ... The real concern of American business was the fear that commercial competitors such as Japan and Germany would exclude American goods from Europe and Asia altogether. ... On December 6, 1941 the Japanese Air force led a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, completely destroying the port. ... This misconception also led Japan to confront the United States in 1941. ...

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America is a nation of immigrants and, as such ita diverse society where racism and prejudice have no place. ... Martin Luther King Jr.civil rights movement was the first step towards a truly de-segregated America. ... In the United States during World War II, citizens of Japanese origin were taken form their homes on the West Coast and moved to inland camps by our government because, after the Japanese attack on pearl Harbor, our government made a generalization abut the Japanese. It decided that the Japanese Americans were a threat and so they decided to put them in camps. ... One of the da...

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While incidents similar to the Pearl Harbor attack were unconsciously expected by many Americans as they were watching in great detail struggles on European scenes of war, they still couldn't accept such a miserable defeat of their naval base. Just like Hitler blamed the German Jews for the defeat of Germany in WWI, Americans came to blame the American Japanese for the defeat of their forces in Pearl Harbor. As there was no evidence of the German Jews activities against their German government also there was no conclusive evidence of even a single American Japanese engaged in betrayal aga...

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The United States remained neutral during the majority of the war, until they were forced into war by Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. ... After the American Stock Exchange fell, America sought out all of their foreign loans.6 This caused Weimar Germany to be destroyed. ... The Japanese launched the Manchuria affair, where Japan created a state in China. The League condemned them for this and Japan simply left the league and started planning for more intervention in China.9 Benito Mussolini, the dictator in Italy, sought to capture modern-day Ethiopia. ... If the League of Nations had acted on Japa...

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He knew English which made him appear to be American. ... On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor using aerial attacks. Wade Carson was drafted into the United States navy to fight the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and Allies now have added strength. ... "The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945" ("World War II, America at War" 1). ...

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The most important causes of World War 2 were nationalism and Japan attacking Pearl Harbor. One of the most important causes was Japan attacking Pearl Harbor because before this it was solely a European war, but after Japan attacked the US naval base in Hawaii it turned the 'European War' into a World War and as the Nazi army got stronger the other European countries had to defeat before they got too strong to defeat and without it there would be no armies for the war. ... Nationalism was one of the main cause of the Vietnam war because The United States initially entered the Vietna...

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This was the sound that Americans heard when Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, a naval base, killing countless American soldiers. This led to the United States declaring war on Japan and therefore Germany, an ally of Japan. ... The American President/General Dwight D. ... The Schnorkel actual made it so the success rate of American destroyers in their battle against the submarines had fallen by half. ... This included 11,000 aircrafts, 154,000 British, Canadian, and American soldiers, and 23,000 paratroopers. ...

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Origins of the Cold War It can be said that actions taken by the United States in the early years of the Cold War were completely rational and based on the real fear that the Soviet Union was out to destroy America and our way of life. ... Since Americans felt it was their mission to "impact their faith and values to the rest of the world"(Chafe p.33), they wanted to take action to defend the innocent victims. ... "From a Soviet perspective, the United States seemed unwilling to join collectively to oppose the Japanese and German menace. ... The Soviets did not think of America as helpin...

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America also likes to block out certain things that happened so the country would not look bad. ... When the minor terrorizing began as early as 1935, many Jews wanted America to come to their safety or at least be able to flee to America for a safe, free life. ... Many opposed this idea, feeling that it would cause more problems for the Americans. ... Across America, propaganda was spread blaming the Jews for everything, including the depression because they took so many of the American"s jobs. Many people in America were as racist toward Jews, as the Nazis were. ...

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According to Lindqvist, "this slaughter of civilians was made possible by more than a century of European (and American and Japanese) ideology that the extermination of other "races" was appropriate" (Lindqvist 276). ... What many people fail to realize is that throughout Hitler's childhood, the Germans exterminated the Herero people in southwest Africa, as well as the genocide by the French, British, and the Americans (Lindqvist 276). ... Just as the Americans desired to head westward to colonize, it was not their first intention to commit genocide on the Indians. ...

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Moreover, and just like in WWI, several alliances were made before WWII, which also contributed to the starting of hostilities: in 1934, Germany and Poland signed a non-aggression pact; later on, Hitler and Mussolini signed the Anti-Comintern Pact together with the Japanese, the main objective of which was to limit communist influence around the world (the alliance became known as the Axis Powers). Finally, in August 1939, Hitler and Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact, by which the two arch-enemies agreed not to attack each other and to divide Poland between them (though this second clause was...

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At first the League of Nations was made up of members, who signed the Treaty of Versailles, but the United States of America never joined and Germany and USSR didn't join at this time. ... The Kellogg-Briand Pact was made by French prime minister, Briand to renounce the war and signed by sixty-five countries include Japan, United States and Russia. ...

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As Americans we didn"t help any. ... China was the same way; they pretended that it was not happening because it was not on their soil, unfortunately when the Japanese entered the war and released biological weapons on china it was to late. They did not however, accept terms from the Japanese for a truce against them but not the rest of the world, when they were dragged into the fight they stayed in it for the long run. ...

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The basic German understanding of the treaty was that if they knew before the cease-fire was called how harsh it was they would have held out and fought until the bitter end.(3) Originally ten leaders and diplomats from France, Britain, United States, Italy and even Japan met togethor. Shortly after though Japan left and only the "Big Four- remained, which was Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George plus Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando of Italy. ... The colonies were split up between the Allies; Britain, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all got a piece of the action. ...

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We learn that while Americans were being bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hitler was moving thousands of Jewish people into concentration camps, but we never focused on the lives of the Jewish community and the hardships that they had to go through in order to survive. ...

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A great film or book always has certain characteristics. It must, first of all, create an exciting environment for its audience. This tone is often set by creating emotions in which the readers relate to. There is something healthy about the capacity to feel guilt. This might seem like a con...

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Anti-Semitism goes at least as far back as the day Jesus Christ was sentenced to crucifixion. Followers of Christ blamed the Jewish for the death of their messiah, and so despised them. The Romans kicked the Jews out of Rome for failing to worship the Roman gods, and, when Rome converted to Christ...

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In 1929 the American Stock Market crashed, a powerful symbol of the growing depression. Germany was particularly badly affected, since Germany's economy was partly dependent on Americas prosperity and a large number of loans made by America to Germany were called back and the German economy crashed (Shirer 168-169). ... Hitler would begin to read his fathers history books about Native Americans and how they were slaughtered along with reading about battles between the Germans and Russians. ... Italy and Japan joined the Axis and Germany then went and defeated Poland and five days later pl...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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