When the Japanese surrendered, General Douglas MacArthur lead the US occuption of Japan. ... MacArthur and his political advisers drew up a constitution for a new government. It changed the government to a constitutional monarchy, leaving the divine emperor of Japan with no power. ... The US remained in Japan for six months, because Japan had no military. ... These new governments helped stop new fascist leaders from rising and taking over and returning those countries to war....

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Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. ... Governments that failed to fight the depression caused domestic politics to become chaotic. ... Similar discontent towards the Japanese government grew with riots occurring as well as the popularity of the Communist party growing. ... In Japan the silk industry was especially hard hit. One third of Japan's export earnings came from the silk industry. ...

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The Government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to galvanize public support, and some of the nation's foremost intellectuals, artists, and filmmakers became warriors on that front. ... The United States dropped the atomic bomb in Japan in the city of Hiroshima. ... 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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However, the federal government did not allow many of these laws to pass. During the World War I, the anti-Japanese sentiment diminished slightly when Japan entered the war on the side of the allies. ... DeWitt commenced with random raids of Japanese homes and seized guns, radios, and cameras from Japanese-American homes. ... He justified his treatment of the Japanese by pointing out various groups that taught fencing, jiu-jitsu, and sumo wrestling to Japanese boys. ... It allowed the United States government to start the evacuation of close to 110,000 Japanese-Americans under Executive Or...

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While working through that crisis though, he interned thousands of Japanese Canadians. ... (Dawson, p.16) Although he felt this way, by mid-1940, English Canada was pressuring the government for "total mobilization of manpower." ... So MacNaughton resigned and Mackenzie King and his government were forced to accept conscription on November 22, 1944. ... The controversy truly started on December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. This led to Canada declaring war on Japan and left the Japanese Canadians with mixed feelings. ...

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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 against America. ... The three leaders believed that Fascism was the best type of government. ... Then on December 7, 1941, Japanese B-17 fighter planes attack the U.S. ...

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During world war two, there was a major intolerance towards Japanese-Canadians. After the Japanese won the battle of Hong Kong, Canadians started to accuse Japanese-Canadians of being spies, only based on their ethnicity. Japanese-Canadians were taken to camps and put under harsh conditions. ... Japanese-Canadians lost almost everything in world war two. Once the war was over they had close to nothing, and the Canadian government justified it all. ...

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Basically, the only ones who were profiting from the war were the businessmen and the government. ... (Zinn, 410) Zinn also points out that Pearl Harbor was "not really sudden or shocking to the American government." ... (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, aware that "these measures were a clear and potent threat to Japan's very existence." ... In WWI, the public fought for something only the gove...

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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. ... The Chancellor in Germany started to cut government expenses, wages and unemployment pay. ... The Weimar Republic in Germany was a failing government and they were not able to fix the economy. ... 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...

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Other causes were Japanese imperialism and the Munich Agreement. ... Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. ... Japan's goal was to conquer as much territory as they could that was in the Pacific region. ... The Japanese were soon forced to retreat. ... Government: issued the National Labor Board to handle land disputes among farmers. ...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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"Magnesium – a material used to make bombs – was produced in Henderson in a new factory opened by the government" (Nevada np). ... It has been said on online databases that the attack on the Hoover Dam was a strategic move by the German army, and after the attack at Pearl Harbor, US soldiers and government were not going to take any risks. ... However, many Japanese Americans felt new restrictions such as being forcefully removed by military personnel. "[] were subjected to forced removal by the military and the seizure of their property by the government. Condition...

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To try to understand this we must look both at the people's and the government's point of view. ... 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. ... 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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In an attempt to bolster the economy (through the gain of ice-free sea ports into the Pacific) and expand into the Far East, Russia, under the reign of Nicholas II, waged war on Japan in 1904. The physically large, yet ill-equipped and poorly lead Russian defense forces were obliterated by the Japanese in under a year. ... With a useless government, social discontent only grew worse and as it did, repression got more intense. ... Like in the 1904-5 war against Japan, Russia's army was again poorly equipped. ... This led to massive mistrust of the government amongst all walks of society an...

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It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... What also arose from the end of the wars was democracy, which ...

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It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... What also arose from the end of the wars was democracy, which ...

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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 policy stated that to win American recognition, they must not only exercise power but reflect "a just government based upon law, not upon arbitrary or irregular force." ...

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Canadians were sent to defend Hong Kong from the Japanese. They were given poor equipment, and fought a large Japanese force. ... Although Japanese victory was probable, Canadians continued their hard work, but were tragically defeated. ... Canadian government members and factories helped with the cause greatly by providing Canadian and Allied forces with valuable supplies. ...

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Arguing that the Serbian government was responsible for the actions of the Black Hand, the Austro-Hungarians took the opportunity to stamp its authority upon the Serbians, crushing the nationalist movement there and strengthening Austria-Hungary's influence in the Balkans. ... The Austro-Hungarian government expected assistance from their ally, Germany, which they would come to their aid if the unthinkable happened and Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary. ... Japan, honoring a military agreement with Britain, declared war on Germany on August 23rd, 1914. Two days later Austria-Hungary...

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On October 4th, 1918, the German government asked Wilson for a cease of fire. ... The German government easily accepted Wilson's peace program, but the French and British were timid. ... Japan was very hostile because they wanted more territory than what they were given. ... The Japanese felt that racism was strong against them. ... The Japanese exclaimed that the treaty was not fair to smaller Allied countries. ...

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Alexandra began to trust his opinion on an ever-widening range of issues, to the point where he was advising her, while Nikolai was at war, on the hiring and firing of government ministers. ... Another event that troubled Nicholas" reign was a humiliating war with Japan. In 1904-5, the country suffered a heavy defeat by Japanese - 400,000 men were killed, wounded or captured, and material losses were valued at 2.5-billion rubles. ... As oppose to Fall of the Romanovs Sidney Harcave's Years of the Golden Cockerel does not use any specific additional documents (letters, diary extracts, gove...

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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. ... When no Japanese surrender resulted from it, a second bomb fell on Nagasaki. On August 15th, 1945, Japan formally surrendered. ... They had different ideas about economics and government. ...

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Following his reelection in 1940, President Roosevelt moved ahead with the dual policy of building up U.S. defenses while giving assistance to those countries resisting the aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... The Lend-Lease Act authorized the president to transfer to victims of aggression, as much military equipment, clothing, and food as could be produced in the United States and acquired by the government. ... He was convinced that the security of the United States depended on the defeat of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... During and after the mid 60's a distrust in the American ...

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First, the reconstruction of Europe in which the government would take a back seat to the private sector; and second was the backing of moves for the reduction of armaments and limitation in which the government itself took the lead. ... Roosevelt wanted the United States government to concentrate on domestic economic recovery. ... 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. ...

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The war was the main reason behind the desire to change the country of its government and ideology. ... Reforms of the emancipation of the serfs and many other came to create balance in the military and government structure, the reforms was the first step to modernization. ... Even though the modernization of Russia was threatened by the corruption of the government structure and the failure to adapt democracy, Russia at this point was very confident from some economic benefit from modernization. ... The 20th century was a turning point to Russia's modernization despite a painful defeat ...

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