The bomb was dropped on the Japaneses because America wanted to end the war without Soviet Russia getting involved. ... The Japanese were about to give up and surrender to the Americans, but they still wanted to fight which was no other fault but theirs; if the Japanese surrendered earlier, the atomic bomb would not of been launched. ... America had no choice but to drop the bomb because they wanted to end war without any help and in addition to see what reaction Japan would have to the bomb being dropped on civilians. ... At this stage Japan was ruined and had no other option but to surrender...

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Although Japan posed diminutive threat to the American military, the Japanese refusal to relinquish, the immense allied casualties involved in invading Japan and the inefficiency of a military blockade made the bomb an essential last resort. The Japanese defiance to the American pursuit of Okinawa and Iwo Jima and willingness to die in the face of overwhelming odds had been intense. Their refusal to surrender caused the Americans to use excessive force in order to triumph over the Japanese. ... Japanese pilots would fasten themselves into aircrafts filled with explosives and fly them int...

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The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... Sino-Soviet -Japanese triangle 2. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. Relationships among the three countries scarcely changed, apart from fluctuations in US-Soviet and US-Japanese relations from time to time. ... The Soviet-Japanese-American triangle drove Soviet policy towards Japan, since the Soviets viewed Japan as a creature of American engagement in Asia. ...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." ... However, the Korean conflict was particularly central to American policy and indeed world security as it outlined the American policy of containment from NSC 68, and demonstrated that America, to quote President Truman that America was committed to, "the cause for a just and peaceful world order through the United Nations.... " Furthermore, by acting in Korea this would be the f...

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Newman explains that Stimson argues throughout his article that the atomic bombs were the most efficient way to end the war because the Japanese refused to surrender, the Soviets had no intimidation factor on the Japanese, and that Americans were simply war weary and need a quick resolution. ... Stimson had known that the Japanese were adamant about not unconditionally surrendering and from this information did everything in his power to rid the American people of their wartime blues. He knew that Americans had long since been tired of the war and fervent to bring the troops back home. ... St...

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Reed's Essay "America: The Multinational Society" In this essay, Reed explains how American culture is portrayed as if it consists of a civilization created by the people of Europe. ... In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? ... What I would like to add is that the word America is the biggest propaganda of the US. That is, America was really called for the e...

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Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage (millercenter.org). An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. ... Japanese surrender quickly followed (whitehouse.gov). ... Forty years of Japanese rule resulted in Korean knowing little about freedom and politics, and they were always told what to do by the Japanese (Ferrell 110). ... Truman knew that doing nothing in Korea would have a devastating effect on the occupation of Japan, with North Korea having airfields near Japan's major cities (Ferrell 115). ...

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Truman had given Japan an opportunity to surrender, warning them of complete destruction, but the ultimatum that he sent was ignored and the Japanese government ignored it and faced, "utter devastation," (HIST, 426). ... This lead to the inevitable surrendering of Japan. ... I believe that the use of the atomic bomb was what saved countless amount of both American lives and the lives of people in other countries, I believe President Truman and his team made the right decisions. ... There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we w...

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American feared another economic depression and required the European market. ... Americans still believed that the Soviet Union was out for world domination, as she attempted to expand outside of Eastern Europe. ... The bitter struggle for survival of the Soviet Union in its early stage, in particular the Civil War was hindered by the American and Western involvement. ... The entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan were also outlined On the surface, everything seemed friendly, but there was tension behind the scenes. ... Both the American and British delegations wanted to est...

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Many Americans believed that the United States had to expand or explode. ... Read by the English, Germans, and Japanese, as well a by his fellow Americans, Mahan helped stimulate the naval race among the great powers that gained momentum around the turn of the century. ... In the ugliest affair, American demands on Chile after the deaths of two American sailors in the port of Valparasio in 1892 made hostilities between the two countries seem inevitable. ... In short time, Japan, too, would be seeing rapid industrial growth. ... In conclusion, the unfolding of the American state throughout the...

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This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. ... Although Japan was very strong during the war (this was shown when they attacked Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, in 1941, and severely depleted the American forces there) the tide turned in 1942 at the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was the Allied forces" first naval win in the region. ... After Japan had been defeated and the European powers weakened, many Asian and Pacific nations wanted independence. ... How strong it was came to light when American troops came to Australia to help protect it fro...

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However, that approach lacked success, and tactics were reformed in the 1980s when Joseph Nye, an American political scientist, classified two concepts known as hard and soft powers. ... Japan's economic success legitimized its role as a model in the eyes of its neighbors, thus outshining China and its Maoist ideals. Surrounding countries began to look up to Japan, which then created a much more relaxed proximate for it. Although Japan may not have been considered powerful, its impact was very influential which later produced desired outcomes for Japan (Cooper, 2004). ... It uses captivat...

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After America's defeat of Japan in World War II, the French continued its colonial rule in Vietnam until 1954 when the Vietminh, Ho Chi Minh's communist army, defeated it once and for all. In response, the American President Dwight D. ... The United States intervened in Vietnam from 1945 to 1054 to maintain an alliance with the French, to guard its(the American) economic interests, and to stop the domino theory that (domino theory or Domino Theory?) ... The statement clearly shows the American's ambition on Indochina and Vietnam. ... The location and the shape of Vietnam provide...

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The arms race between the United States of America and the Soviet Union (the Cold War), nearly lead to World War III. ... The nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was a 12.5-kiloton atomic bomb, "an explosive blast equal to 12,500 tons of conventional high explosives (such as TNT) and caused high pressure waves, flying debris, extreme heat, and radioactive fallout." Examples of chemical weapons would include the nerve agent Sarin that was deployed by a religious cult in Japan in 1995 to kill and injure the general public, and mustard gas that was used durin...

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The Cold War also led America into adapting a doctrine called the containment doctrine where the foreign policy transformed into trying to oppose the Soviets militarily and diplomatically all around the world. ... The US wanted to prevent Vietnam from turning into a communist nation so in 1964 they intervened militarily in the small Asia country even though they didn't have suppose of the American people. ... The Soviet Union responded in 1955 with the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact) During World War II, the US dropped an atom bomb on Japan, who at the time was one of their b...

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Europe is an ally; so is Japan. ... In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... For over a century the national interests of China have been reflected in the following foreign policy objectives of communist China: (a) to preserve the national territory from foreign annexation or intrusion; (b) To regain what had been lost through foreign interventions; (c) To repel from her borders any threatening or hostile military presence, be it Russian, Japanese, America or any of her power; and (d) To regain for China the status of a world power commensurate with the greatness o...

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When America had created nuclear weapons, it was destined to win the war with Japan as well as to create leverage with Stalin. Truman hoped that Stalin's discovery of the American nuclear capability might stop Stalin from extending his communist expansion throughout Europe and influence Stalin to agree to America's plans. ... When they dropped the bomb on Japan in 1945, Soviets were not surprised as Stalin's spies had revealed long ago of its existence. ... America and Russia built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons where power became dependent upon the ability to outspend e...

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Congress that was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.This institution is an American non-partisan, independent, federal institution that works to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict around the world. ... Israeli relations have evolved from an initial American policy of sympathy and support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in 1948 to an unusual partnership that links a small but militarily powerful Israel, dependent on the United States for its economic and military strength, with the U. ... Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 1...

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Since 1910, Korea had been under control of the Japanese government. In 1945, the communist Soviet Union invaded North Korea, quickly forcing the Japanese to surrender. ... This struck fear into the hearts of Americans, as seen in NSC-68, a military report on military power in the U.S. and USSR which called for increased military spending to combat communism; "This excessive strength, coupled now with an atomic capability, provides the Soviet Union with great coercive power for use in time of peace in furtherance of its objectives and serves as a deterrent to the victims of its aggression...

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Through the use of the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan; it provided a definite proof of what America was capable of. ... America began a widespread hate to all Communists. ... In agreement the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, to help Cuba in case America wanted to attack, due to the conflicts between Cuba and America regarding trade issues of denying export of sugar to America. ... America was now in a state of "National Emergency". ... America de...

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The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... The British were deeply indebted to the United States in the form of loans, so American initiative came into play. ... With the US naval base in Pearl Harbor being bombed by the Empire of Japan in 1941, the US was once again thrust into global warfare. ... Such attacks, as those in Northern Africa, Italy and France were all conglomerated forces of British and Americans. ... After the fall of Germany and Japan in 1945, the United Nations has been the peacekeeping force that has policed the...

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For example, Cuba being a sphere of influence of the United States had greatly benefited Americans up until Castro's revolution in 1958. ... In the terms of this treaty, the Soviets provided China with $300 000 000 worth of goods and materials, and mutual military aid incase of an attack from Japan or its allies. ... This American alliance included most of western Europe. ... This formation of American alliances in Europe also helped the American policy of containment of soviet Expansion in Europe. ...

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Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... Roosevelt and Churchill were further inclined to assent to the Yalta agreements because they assumed, mistakenly as it turned out, that Soviet assistance would be sorely needed to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific and Manchuria. ... In America, the Polish-American public had to be appeased for popularity and voting purposes. ... In areas of America with large Polish populations, Pennsylvania for example, anti-Communists sentiments burned with a vengea...

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Korea had been occupied by Japan and Vietnam had been occupied by France. ... The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. "For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea". ... On 30th April 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists, and America lost the war against communism. ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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