The Japanese Navy consisted of twenty eight ships. When Chinese and Japanese soldiers met in Korea Chinas forced had amassed to 350,000 men and seventy one ships (Iriye 14, 15) Even though China outnumbered Japan, Japan was still able to overcome Chinese forces. ... After the Japanese defeat their leaders from government, business and education were purged from their jobs, in order for them to make room for a new young generation. ... In 1946 Japanese exports totaled two billion yen but by 1949 Japanese exports increased from two billion to 170 billion yen (Iriye, 94). 1949 saw a change in...

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use of it against the Japanese". ... When he learned that the bombs would be used against Japanese cities, he, as he put it, "opposed it with all [his] power". ... This is because Americans in that time period really hated the Japanese, they were not quite sure what an atomic bomb really was and did not know of the harsh radiation after-effects, and because they were glad the war was finally over and no more American lives were spared. ... Also, as a new generation of people was formed, there was no longer a deep sense of hatred towards the Japanese. ...

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It also shows that women have learned from the past where they were badly treated, and have blocked the repetition from generation to generation by protesting and changing habits. ... 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 hav...

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They were also ardent Vietnamese nationalists who fought first to rid their country of the Japanese and then, after 1945, to prevent France from reestablishing its former colonial mastery over Vietnam and the rest of Indochina. ... After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramount importance to Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. ... Supporting these ground troops was a tremendous air bombardment of North Vietnam that by 1967 surpassed the total tonnage dropped on Germany, Italy, and Jap...

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This up coming generation had a unique opportunity to create a lasting peaceful environment, instead of unstable conflict. ... Especially in the time of Nixon's presidency, it was essential to change America's foreign policy and create a stable environment for coming generations. ... It would definitely be safer to have a healthy United States, Europe, Japan Russia, and China each balancing each other, and not playing one against the other. ...

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The United States could not allow its interests in East Asia, particularly Japan, to be placed in jeopardy. ... In 1995, sixty-thousand Korean War veterans gathered in Washington D.C. to watch President Clinton dedicate this memorial that honors - pride, valor, heroic sacrifice on behalf of freedom and democracy - are ideals largely unfamiliar to our generation. ...

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Russia generally ranked as the poorest nation in Europe before 1914, now industrialised at a phenomenal rate, far surpassing Germany's pace of industrialisation in the 19th century and Japan's earlier in the 20th century. ... The generation that grew up under Stalin also saw a major expansion in job opportunities, especially for women. ...

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The fiction of Wells was 24 years ahead of the discovery of fission when Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, both German chemists, observed the generation of barium, an element with about one-half the mass and charge of uranium, after uranium was irradiated with slow neutrons. ... The world obviously survived nuclear weapon use in Japan and the hundreds of above ground and underground nuclear weapons tests that were conducted during the 30 year period following the end of World War II. ... Forgotten was that one of the two types of nuclear weapons dropped in Japan had never been tested and the ot...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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