Morison is a extraordinary masterpiece on the history of U.S navel operations in World War II. ... The United States involvement in World War II was key to the Allies' success in the war. ... Churchill stated that "shipping is the crunch of the whole war" and "the war would be decided in the Atlantic" and that "if Hitler cannot win there, he cannot win anywhere in the world at the end." ... Even though the band was interrupted in their song by Japanese planes, the crews did not move until the last note was sung. ... Since World War II the methods and systems of obtaining military intelli...

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World War II When World War II broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of it. ... America's involvement in World War II not only contributed to the eventual downfall of Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich, but also came at the precise time. ... Over the years, people have debated on whether America could have entered World War II earlier, thus saving many lives. ... Major Eisenhower, who was later Supreme commander of the Allied forces in World War II, complained that America was left with only a shell of military establishment. ... As Richard Overy notes...

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Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... For example, when American soldiers returned from the Second World War, there was a feeling of pride and triumph among the troops, but this is not the case with the Vietnam War. ... The new levels of brutality that the young men had to face were new to the...

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a very important event during World War II, and it was one of the major reasons the United States joined the war. ... In some ways, Japan's strategy was a success, but in other ways, it was a complete failure which ended up costing Japan later in World War II. ... One author notes the losses in ships as such: By the time the attack was over, every battleship in Pearl Harbor-The U.S.S. ... Even the most advanced military country in the entire world could not recognize important hints that were right in front of them. ... The attack on Pearl Harbor was a ma...

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We start with Article II of the United States Constitution, which outlines the powers and duties of the Executive. ... The applicable executive power is found in Section II. ... In the case of World War II, this would give Roosevelt the power to exercise complete military control without necessarily the immediate consent of congress if he deemed the danger to be "imminent" as stated before. ... While I do believe that generalizations are unfair to apply, especially so broadly as to a race or other large demographic group, I believe that World War II applied a unique set of circumsta...

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Economy Of Hungary During the two decades following World War II, Hungary was transformed from a predominantly agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. ... The GNP as calculated by the World Bank was about 26$ billion, or 2,470$ per person. ... The share of Hungary's NMP contributed by industry and agriculture has changed markedly since World War II. ... Before World War II Hungary traded primarily with Western nations, and the Soviet Union accounted for less than one percent of Hungarian trade. After the war, this pattern was reversed. ...

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This event held great significance as it led to the Cold War. At Yalta, the Allied leaders, known as the Big Three, met to plan the last stages of the Second World War and agree to the subsequent territorial division of Europe. ... The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration of principles to guide a post-World War II peace settlement. ... They made calls to "halt at once the vicious red program of world enslavement."" ... In his view, he had created a forum in the world through which nation-states could handle disputes and an organization through which the peace and security of the worl...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also do...

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Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. ... Never before had any nation almost completely incinerated an opposing nation, and never before had the United States fully showed the world the extent of its abilities. ... [It] looked like a pot of bubbling tar. [ ] The war was over.... ... Shortly after, on August 14, 1945, Japan finally surrendered, and World War II came to a close. ... He wrote in his diary: We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. ...

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And in the 1920's Q: Utilizing class notes and perhaps resources of your own, write a 1,000-2,000 work dealing with each of the following artists in the period directly following World War 1 [1918-]: German art movement of the 1920s began after the end of WWI. ... They created styles of sharp realism and protest that mirrored the disillusionment following World War I. ... as it also is a painting on three panels side by side it deals more directly with the First World War. ... He anticipated the far in advance the dishonesty and shock of World War I as well as the change in art ...

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America was all too comfortable with a naive sense "nothing can touch us and noting can hurt us." ... For example, World War II was thought of as the war "over there", "over seas", but the events that occurred on December 7,1941 at Pearl Harbor, noting at that point could compare to the awakening and the realization that America could be struck and struck hard. ... Our political diplomats are world wide and their influences for the reaching. ... In other countries wars are fought and are being fought just for the right to worship. ... We are a part of a world that is full of turmoil hatred a...

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The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn led to the outbreak...

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To Jensen supporting the troops means supporting the war, and this war is not something he supports. People blindly interpret supporting the troops as defending America's freedom yet the only war since 1812 though that comes even sort of close to actually threatening the safety of America's freedom is World War II, but even that's argumentative. ... Considering that America is the most powerful military country in the world and Iraq is a weak Third World country it is even more illogical that America would go to war with them. ... The Hawks debated arguments against war, but ult...

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More importantly, it was a major center for the manufacture of war materials before and during World War II. ... It is almost as if they had invented a world of fantasy. But this world of fantasy was really a world of deception. ... Even the radio broadcasters declared that Japan was winning the war. But the Japanese government lived in a world of reality where an attack by the US was very possible. ...

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However, with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Americans are taking a more in-depth look at our foreign policy. ... An evening in front of his television set watching his daily dose of world news from CNN or MSNBC or some other news station tells the typical American that we are engaged in global conflict. ... Within the past decade we have sent American military personnel to Somalia to protect United Nations" troops conducting a humanitarian operation to relieve the famine resulting from the civil...

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The scale of Japan's growth is easy to demonstrate but understanding the reason is much more difficult, especially when this country was completely destroyed after the Second World War. The end of the Pacific War in 1945, should have economically and psychologically spelled doom for Japan. "By the end of the Pacific War the volume of Japan's industrial production was less than thirty per cent of her output in 1936. ... The total estimate of damage caused by the Pacific War to the Japanese General Wealth was 65 302 million Yen. ... Overall, the Japanese economy was the highest growth ...

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It is an intriguing topic and one that has been the subject of debate since the end of the war. ... After World War II, Roper was sent to Germany by the British government to investigate and verify Adolf Hitler's death. ... Instead, it mentions a Russian spy who was a messenger in the Bunker and the importance of this man's role during World War I. ... The authors note that if the Goebbls" had not known for certain that Hitler was dead, then they would not have taken their children's lives as well as their own. ... While Trevor-Roper's book was written immediately after...

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He fell into a deep depression and contemplated suicide, until he heard that Germany was now at war. ... In 1919, after the war, the army gave him a job spying on potentially dangerous underground political organizations. ... Defying the Treaty of Versaille, Hitler began preparing Germany for war: building a strong air force, army and navy. ... After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American declared war against the Axis powers and after four years, Hitler was dead and the war over. However, the war had only been a cover-up for Hitler's true objective: the holocaust. ...

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