Coming to Terms with My Ignorance The dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered as a point of Western victory in World War II, just as the attack on Pearl Harbor is remembered as "the day that went down in infamy". ... This non-Western account made me believe for the first time that, in some respects, the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan during August, 1945 was more deplorable than the Japanese offensive at Pearl Harbor. ... For the first time ever, I felt that some aspects of the atom bombs in Japan were worse than that of Pearl Harbor, simply because I was loo...

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Halsey was in overall command of the mission and hoped to get w/in 400 miles of Tokyo before launching the B-25s The Hornet and Enterprise represented ½ of the US carrier strength in the Pacific Hornets planes stowed below decks so the Enterprise provided scouting and air cover Doolittle allowed each crew to pick its own targets, Imperial Palace ruled out b/c would only inflame Japan's fighting spirit Most of these fliers had not experienced combat b4 The Japanese knew they were coming b/c had picked up radio messages transmitted btwn the 2 task groups and Pearl but they calculated...

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The Meiji Restoration was a period in Japan when massive changes occurred in ancient Japan. The goal of the Meiji Restoration was summarised in the motto, " A rich country, a strong military". In 1868 the Tokogawa shogun ("great general"), who ruled Japan in the feudal period lost his power and the ...

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In the end of 1930s, the world's two powers, Axis, headed by Japan, German, and Italy and Allies, headed by the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China, fought in all over the world until the middle of 1940s. People called this war as the World War II. As Nazi regime in Germany went o...

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