Instead of entering a war with Japan pre WWII, the United States put oil sanctions against Japan to put a damper on the Japanese from doing repugnant acts to the Chinese. Incidentally, as the Japanese oil supply diminished this left no option to the Japanese but to attack the United States to gain access to our oil. ... The United States was too busy profiting off of weapons and loans from allied countries, while they did not want to waste American lives fighting a war until something happened to our national interest, which was the when Japan attacked the U.S. ... Time after time the we ga...

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The United States dropped the atomic bomb in Japan in the city of Hiroshima. ... In World War I, a German U-boat sunk the merchant ship the Lusitania, killing many Americans. This made many Americans angry and wanted the United States to enter the war. In World War II, the United States was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor crippled the American Navy The next day the United States declared war on Japan ...

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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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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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On the other side the Axis powers included Germany, Japan and Italy. ... During the 1930's Japan was very aggressive in Asia and Italy, lead by Mussolini was invading Ethiopia. ... On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor bringing the United States into the war. ... Eisenhower began working with a group of high-level British and American leaders to execute Operation Overlord. ... During the night American and British paratroopers dropped from the sky. ...

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As a result of the increase expansion in China, Japanese aircraft launched an attack on the American gunboat USS Panay. ... America's first step was to stop the sale of aviation fuel to Japan and also ban the sale of iron and steel. ... America's intelligence noticed the increased shipping activity from Japan and suspected that they was planning an aggressive course in the Southwest Pacific within the week. ... Even though America manage to send Japan back to Rabaul, the United States Navy lost the Lexington which caused the Navy twenty-five percent of the American carrier forces in ...

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Many of these people were born in the United States and had never stepped foot outside of America or visited Japan. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-American citizens escalated to a fever pitch. ... DeWitt commenced with random raids of Japanese homes and seized guns, radios, and cameras from Japanese-American homes. ... Over 25,000 Japanese-Americans fought in the war and many of them lost their lives (Conrat 23). The Japanese-Americans of that time were intertwined within the American fabric. ...

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The Japanese were soon forced to retreat. ... The end of World War II was officially announced on September 2, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered to the American troops. American Home front during ww2 Mexican-Americans: They were discriminated against by many Americans. ... Many Mexican-Americans were abused and harassed by other Americans. African-Americans: They were also discriminated against by Americans. ...

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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 was not supposed to be involved - in fact, in the beginning, the war wasn't a threat to America. ... America stayed neutral for these reasons and America would be safe from any harm. ... The Lusitania was not an American ship but the deaths of American's angered President Wilson. ... By the end of 1915 Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were battling the Allied Powers of Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro and Japan, and the U.S. as they entered in 1917. ... It also brought upon strong international trades between Europe and A...

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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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However, in America, the idea of a League was not very popular and Woodrow Wilson needed the approval of his Congress. The Republicans campaigned for America to be isolationist and it won. So, when the League opened for business in January 1920, the American chair was empty and it never joined. ... Only Japan voted against. ... They discussed economic sanctions but without America (Japan's main trading partner) they would be meaningless. ...

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There was a triangle of money flow, Germany would pay other European countries and they would use that money to pay America then America would then pay it back to Germany so they could pay Europe. ... The Japanese may have never attacked America if there wasn't another war that they knew we had to eventually enter. If Japan had attacked us and there wasn't a war in Europe then we would have had more resources to fight Japan. The war with Japan would have been shorter with less casualties. The League of Nations was formed; however America was never Page 4 a me...

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This policy warned the Latin American nations to keep their affairs in order or face American intervention. ... The focus of the United States policies in the Far East was to prevent Japan, which was a dominant force in the far east, from invading the Philippines. ... Roosevelt mediated the conflicts between Russia and Japan to put an end to their war. The United States negotiated an agreement that recognized Japan's dominance over Korea in return for its promise not to invade the Philippines. 2. ... The protests involved American goods and money and Germany's submarine policy ...

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Although the League of Nations ^was much of the work of President Woodrow Wilson , America never joined the League . ... Firstly , America had suffered civilian casualties in the war , and many citizens in the USA wanted to keep America out of European affairs . ... So although the League was actually formed partly by Woodrow Wilson , he still backed America joining it . By this time , America had had enough of wars and dealing with other countries problems . ... The Japan depression lead Japan to take over Manchuria ( part of China ) . ...

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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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Japan attacked American, British, and Dutch territories in the Pacific. ... On December 7th, 1941, Japanese carrier-based bombers struck the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. With lots of further battle, in August of 1945, an American B-29 dropped a single atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, obliterating its existence. When no Japanese surrender resulted from it, a second bomb fell on Nagasaki. On August 15th, 1945, Japan formally surrendered. ...

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When a new nation starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. ... Soon, the American people were unhappy and decided to take action against the British. ... However, that was just the beginning of intelligence in America. ... This attack was considered a catalyst to the American intelligence community because after the attack, there was an increase in resources devoted to intelligence agencies. In June of 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created, and became America's first centralized intelligence agency. ...

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At the same time the Americans and the Japanese start building their own ships. ... Problems from America During the war , America took advantage of Britain and Germanys` involvement in the war. ... The world depression at the early 1930`s The American depression worse than ours. 1929 - 1933 the GNP has fallen in America by 29 percent. ... When America collapses so does the rest of the world. ... Ask America for a loan. ...

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World War 2 World War 2 was the last big war for America, and it had many after effects towards our country. We entered the war after Pearl Harbor on December 8th, 1941, and ended it when Japan surrendered on August 14th, 1945. ... No African American women were employed at all. ...

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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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in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... Following his reelection in 1940, President Roosevelt moved ahead with the dual policy of building up U.S. defenses while giving assistance to those countries resisting the aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... He was convinced that the security of the United States depended on the defeat of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send...

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There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... The Englishmen decided that the Americans had no right to protest high taxes because of their low social position. ... America was no longer a truly British nation, so they decided to break away. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ...

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World War II caused a change of the living status of American women. ... Five million women entered the work force, and made up 36 percent of the American labor force (Sinnot 13). ... They assembled tens of thousands of military airplanes needed in the war effort ("American Women in WWII" 391). ... The life was rough and hard, but the nurses worked continuously to take care of, and heal the American soldiers as best as they could. ... Others were captured and interned by the Japanese. ...

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