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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From 1900 to 1945, America went from the top of the world, to the bottom, and back up again. ... America may have shined throughout history as the light of democracy and liberty in the world, however, that does not give us the right to assert our economic, cultural, or political influence on the world, nor serve as a global pseudo police force. ... However, it is warranted for America to become involved with international conflict if, and only if, it actually impacts us as well, or has the potential to do so. ... Much like how the British controlled America in the early years of our prospering...

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The world saw his big stick, his great white fleet and his artful maneuvering of the Russo-Japanese treatise. Later, Woodrow Wilson was charged with continuing America's influence on a moral basis, as well as tying America into the First World War in Europe. ... To prevent any possible European encroachment upon US soil by way of Latin America, Theodore Roosevelt traversed the continent of Latin America to assist foundling nations and "discourage- those that might be deleterious to American interests. ... While America was occupied with Latin America, it did not fail to recognize that it ...

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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 Imperialism The United States became an imperialist nation in the very late 1800's, the Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destiny. ... America came out of the Spanish-American War as a major naval power. ... This sparked the great confidence in America. ... Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia all claimed exclusive trading rights to certain parts of China. ... The enforcement of the Roosevelt Doctrine was the basis of America's stance on war, at the end of the World War, despite much loss; America had r...

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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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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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In 1941, The United States of America was a very reluctant world power. ... America was largely a land of immigrants, of people who had left Europe and its problems behind. ... This encouraged German and Japanese expansion and weakened the resolve of more liberal democracies to stand up to their aggression. ... By December 1941 the US had declared war on Germany and Japan and declared that the war would have a democratic purpose. ... America had the biggest navy, the strongest air force and possessed the atomic bomb. ...

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The league of nations was an idea of Woodrow Wilson, the president of America from 1914 to 1921. ... America was a very powerful country because whilst everyone was at war, America used the war as an opportunity to develop and make money. ... America was not a member of the league because it wanted to become isolationist. The fact that America was not in the league made the league less powerful and its decisions meant less to the world than if america participated. ... If the league would have upset Japan then they might have invaded the colonies of Great Britain. ...

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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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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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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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The US should've joined the war to pay back Germany for the attacks against the Americans. On May 7, 1915 the Lusitania which is also the Titanic's sister was sunk without warning by German U-boats it killed over 1200 innocent people, 120 of those innocent people were American citizens. One year later, the Sussex was sunk by German U-boats and American citizens were outraged at these direct violations of their neutral rights at sea. In an attempt to eliminate the threat of American involvement in Europe, Foreign Minister Alfred Zimmerman attempted to provoke Mexico and Japan into at...

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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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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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Every country on the brink of war can quickly turn the whole labor force into a military production line; about as quick as the 1920's American stock market can crash. ... Towards the end of the war, the American Military start to produce more efficient railways within our borders. ... The Aircraft Carriers even carried their own repair supplies, for certain situations where a Japanese Kamikaze Fighter would hit the upper deck. ... Americas great Military, Air force, and Navy along with the help of Britain and Russia, were able to push back and defeat the Axis Empire in Europe. ......

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United States President Woodrow Wilson declared a U.S. policy of absolute neutrality on the same day Britain declared war, August 4th, an official stance that would last until 1917 when Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare - which seriously threatened America's commercial shipping - forced the U.S. to finally enter the war on April 6th, 1917. Japan, honoring a military agreement with Britain, declared war on Germany on August 23rd, 1914. Two days later Austria-Hungary responded by declaring war on Japan. ...

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Russia declread the war after the German like I said. of course, Russia wanted war as bussines, but they were not ready for the war in 1914 because of Japan-Russia war at 1904 to 1905. the dameged was so huge for Russia. ... That is absolutely right because during conference, Japan did not have permission from America. ...

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On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware of them. ... For example at the beginning of the last century in America there were slaves who rebelled and have obtained equal rights, for example Martin Luther king, who didn't want to bend into what generations before him had lived, changed the event and prevented a repetition in history...

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