Instead of entering a war with Japan pre WWII, the United States put oil sanctions against Japan to put a damper on the Japanese from doing repugnant acts to the Chinese. Incidentally, as the Japanese oil supply diminished this left no option to the Japanese but to attack the United States to gain access to our oil. ... The United States was too busy profiting off of weapons and loans from allied countries, while they did not want to waste American lives fighting a war until something happened to our national interest, which was the when Japan attacked the U.S. ... At that time though, Engl...

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It was World War I that saw the development of the submarine as an effective weapon of war. ... The most important import that Britain was receiving was their oil that was critical to the running of any war machines that Britain had, without oil that was being ship through thousands of miles of open sea, Britain would not be a threat in the war (Pitt, 17). ... All of the ships lost in that four month period would be lost in United States waters, and more than half of the losses were tankers that were carrying oil to the British forces (Pitt, 154). ... It was World War I that saw the developme...

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After backing the Iraqi president out of the fear or the Islamic Revolution spreading to nations like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, both huge suppliers of oil to the western world, Saddam himself invaded Kuwait, thus causing Operation Desert Shield/Storm. ... During the Cold War, a trend was noticed nearly immediately in terms of the Nuclear Arms Race; as the United States peaked in weapons manufacturing, the U.S.S.R soon followed suit. Not only that, but when the United States ceased or slowed weapons manufacturing, the U.S.S.R once again followed suit. ...

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A New World was the phoenix that emerged out of the ashes and smoke of World War II, a world where two large and colossal countries were bitter adversaries, both with nuclear weapons. ... Ironically, it was not the godless, evil communists that had used a nuclear weapon, rather the Democratic peace- loving nation that bombed the two civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using atomic bombs. ...

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Reichsmarschal Hermann Goering also stated in his 1942 radio broadcast to the German nation that raw materials such as coal and iron should not be wasted, and that anyone who "uses too much power is committing a sin.""22 Germany took an extra step and set up the War Raw Materials Board which rationed and distributed all kinds of raw materials, from foreign oil to barn manure.23 Moreover, a recycling program was set up, which made good use of almost any material, from fruit peels to women's hair.24 Food rations were also installed to limit the available resources. ... The new weapon...

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When war broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the severity it would have taken on the people of the world. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America's Involvement in World War II not only contributed in the downfall ...

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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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