Racism in America was also somewhat prominent. ... Americans were depicted in a similar manner by the Japanese cartoonists. ... One of the more famous examples of racism was the internment of Japanese Americans. ... The Japanese-Americans were euphemistically called "evacuees," but in reality they were prisoners in relocation camps. ... Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 citing that the relocation of Japanese-Americans was to protect against espionage and sabotage. ...

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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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This only served to increase American's hatred toward the Japanese. ... Finally, the U.S. could focus its energies and power to quickly defeat the Japanese with minimal loss of American lives. ... The Americans continued massive conventional bombings. American forces prepared 6 million leaflets to drop on Japanese cities. ... While doing my research I found that there are no clear answers to the question of why America decided to use the atomic bombs against Japan. ...

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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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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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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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Following the Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese Empire in December 1941, other Americans were suspicious of Japanese Americans' loyalty to the United States. ... Based on these circumstances, Japanese Americans were no longer treated the same as other Americans.  ... In other words, Japanese Americans were willing to die fighting for their country just like any other Americans. ... Unlike Japanese Americans, African Americans did not face suspicion on their loyalty to the United States.  ... Because of that policy, Japanese Americans and African Americans were given the opportuniti...

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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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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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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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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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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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In his letter, he also claimed that the Japanese deserved it since the bombing of Pearl Harbor destroyed 3 battleships, and killed 6,000 Americans (Harry S. ... Despite the oppositions, most Americans still saw the dropping of the bombs as a victorious act by Truman. ... On December 7, 1941, Japan made the decision for Roosevelt, when Japanese aircrafts launched a surprise attack on one of America's main naval bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... By destroying Japan, before the Soviets interfere, America would have more control. ... The Americans had only done underground explosions, and o...

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American military Aviation (AMA) in 1938 was able to produce only 1800, 300 less than Germany, and 1400 less than Japan. ... 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 real concern of American business was not "the rights or wrongs of trading with fascism" but the fear that commercial rivals 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 Har...

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Pearl Harbor "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." ... Our government was looking for a way into the war that didn't anger the American people. ... In Japan, Mr. ... The Attack on Pearl Harbor was so important because of what it did to the whole American way of thinking of war especially WWII. ... I do feel that FDR used Pearl Harbor as a way to get into WWII without angering Americans. ...

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One these key objectives was to involve Stalin in the war against Japan. The Americans had lost too many people since the battles fought with Australia against Japan were bloody ones. ... Stalin had noted that a prolonged presence of American military forces would be necessary in Europe. In reply to Stalin's comment, he said that American forces should not stay very long. ... The agreement called for Stalin to join the war against Japan, however, the Soviet Union did not declare war on Japan until several days after the atomic bombs crippled Japan for the past 4 decades and a half. ...

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The main change was in relations between African-Americans and White Americans. ... These post war changes and changes in racial relations were not only restricted to African-Americans, but also Japanese-Americans had a particularly difficult time during and after the war too. ... During this decade, nearly 1 million black Americans made the move from South to North. By 1950, for the first time, a third of all black Americans lived outside the South. ... In early WWII, about 50,000 Japanese citizens living near the American west coast and their 70,000 American born descendants, virtually ...

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This act was created at the Inter-American Conference of Problems of War and Peace. ... The United States were unable to strike back effectively against the Japanese Empire. As a result, Americans in the Western states to lashed out against their fellow Japanese citizens. ... Under this order, all the Japanese were forced to leave and go to "relocation centers." By the end of 1942, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry among which two thirds were native-born citizens were put in internment camps.11 The truth can be seen through this intolerable experience. ...

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This war is a major turning point in American history and society, and has helped shape America into the country it is today. The Civil War is important because it affected African Americans and their future in America. ... It took many African American leaders, and even White leaders to help with the advancement of African Americans in the country. ... One of the first triumphs for African Americans was on December 7, 1941 during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Memory). ... Miller also manned an antiaircraft machine gun, downing several Japanese planes before being ordered to abandon...

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America as the empire of conspiracies, have numerous conspiracies throughout history. ... Another conspiracy in American history is the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. ... Sent from Tokyo to a Japanese Embassy in Washington, it was encoded in the top-level Japanese "purple code," it stated that the Japanese were going to end relations with the United States. ... Although he knew about the Japanese secret declaration of war, he never told the people who needed to know such as Admiral Husband E. ...

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It missed its mark but still had a devastating effect on Nagasaki causing an unconditional surrender by the Japanese. The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and triumphant journey (Gene). ... After the first bomb was dropped, the Japanese did not surrender so a second bomb was dropped. ... Finally the Japanese surrendered and the madness was stopped. ... Although we did triumph over the Japanese with the atomic bomb, it is still considered a weapon of mass destruction. ...

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By the 1950's many older Americans had grown weary of depression and war. Younger Americans were often apolitical. ... The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs, and American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. ... Thus, rebuilding the economies of post-war Europe and Japan would guarantee American prosperity by providing an outlet for the nation's goods. ... By 1960, about 30.5% of Americans, or 55 million out of 180 million, lived in suburbs. ...

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Roosevelt's election marked a changing point for America and it's people. ... Roosevelt had in fact spoken what was realized later down the road eight years later when the Japanese army attacked The Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 which brought the United States into the Second World War. ... They had involved a tremendous amount of Americans money in their stocks and had risked the soundness of the Americas economy and the prosperity of the American society that we were so promised. ... Soon Britain and the Soviet Union got engaged against the combined forces of Germany, Italy an...

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