Before America decided to join World War II, American ideas were harsh. ... Pearl Harbor was the reason the United States put their contribution in on World War II. ... This war was going to take lots of man power and funding. ... Women also got their chance to serve the war. ... World War II although tragic, happened at good time for America because it helped pull them out of the awful situation the crash of the stock market had put them in and it helped with equality in African Americans and women....

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Prisoners of War 1942 - 1945 Within three months of the Japanese entering World War II on December 8th, 1941, over 22 thousand Australian troops had become prisoners of war. ... At the end of World War II some 14000 Australian servicemen and about 30 service women were alive. One in three Australian prisoners of war had died, making this prisoner of war ordeal responsible for more than half the deaths of the entire war. ... This was mainly the case for many prisoners of war during World War II. There were many large-scale massacres that occurred during World War II involving the priso...

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Unfortunately, this was a harsh reality for many soldiers in World War Two, more specifically the prisoners of war in Japan. The treatment of prisoners of war in the pacific was extremely unfair and unjust. ... This was because of the extreme cruelty and inhumane treatment that their prisoners of war received. ... As World War Two came to a close, nations around the world got wind of the conditions in Japan. ... Prisoners of war were not animals meant to be locked up and abused. ...

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The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an immediate end to World War II. ... Newman, who believes that Truman had carefully considered all of the options, the bombs were the fastest way to end the war. and that Truman believed the Soviets were not necessary in terms of ending the war. ... Gary Alperovitz's final argument lies in the lack of the support for the bomb after the war. ... Alperovitz's second argument lies in the regrets of World War II military leaders. ... Henry Stimson had been Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of War during World War I...

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Guns, tanks, and bombs were the principal weapons of World War II, but there were other, more subtle, forms of warfare as well. ... TECHNOLOGY-There were many differences during World War I and World War II. ... In World War II, there were new weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Airplanes helped with World War II by making it easier to hit targets. ... In World War II, the United States was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor. ...

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There is no such thing as ethnic war 1. ... In terms of emphasis and concern, it came into prominence in the field of International Relations after the World War II era- with the emergence of many new independent countries, and especially after the cold war period- in the pursuit of seeking correlation between instability or conflict in some regional systems with that of ethnic elements of those regional systems. ... In the post-World War II era, increasing patterns of global interdepence in economic affairs, communication and transportation systems, and the penetratio...

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This is the question posed by Mahatma Gandhi, which can be applied to many of the wars that the United States has encountered in the past century, including World War II and the Vietnam War, which are the historical subjects of literary works by John Hersey and Ron Kovic. The destruction, physically and emotionally, of both wars are shown very differently through the two accounts of the wars, through stylistic efforts, as well as the facts and their presentation. ... Born on the Fourth of July chronicles Kovic's journey in hospitals, his realizations of the reality of war, and his stru...

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Antigone The words spoken by Teiresias in Antigone, if adhered to during World War II, could have saved several thousand lives. ... The Emperor continued to ignore foreign threats, including an embargo on the oil that drove Japan's war machine, and invaded Indochina. ... Emperor Hirohito's refusal to end Japanese expansion brought America into World War II, preparing the way for two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan. ...

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The war started 2 years prior on September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. ... On August 15th, 1945 the Japanese finally surrendered on the USS Missouri ending the war. (World) Sadly in April of 1945 Roosevelt died and was unable to see the success of the war but President Harry Truman was able to finish he war. (Who) The war took a tole on the whole world economically with the start of the Great Depression proceeding the war. Countries were also hurt by the amount of deaths that were caused by the war. ...

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Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. ... This was a catalyst that brought the United States into World War II. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ...

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Countries enter war for a variety of reasons. ... In the case of Japan fighting in World War II, the country was in full support of the war. ... Others in school "were taught that war was unavoidable" (87). ... Even as Japan began to lose in the war, they still stayed confident. ... As it is clear to see, the Japanese held a strong sense of patriotism as they entered World War II. ...

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A great number of changes, both positive and negative, arose as a result of World War II. Based on the facts from documents 1-17, however, it appears that that negative changes far outweigh the positive results within the post World War II time-frame. ... There have been more negative consequences then positive as a result of World War II. The dominant negative effect would be The Cold War. ... The space race also fueled this war. ...

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World War II ranged from 1939 through 1945 and it involved every major world power. ... Partly responsible were the humiliating peace treaties forced on Germany after World War I. ... France and Britain immediately declared war on Germany officially beginning World War II. ... On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor bringing the United States into the war. ... Body Guard was considered the most complicated deception plan of the whole war. ...

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The automobile helped the United States get out of The Great Depression and win the war. Two months after the US entered World War II, the last passenger car was made. ... The OPM, along with the War Production Board and The Automotive Council for War Production, supervised the conversion of peacetime automotive production to that of wartime. ... Automakers more than doubled their productive capacity during the war.2 This not only helped to win World War II but pumped much needed capital into the US economy to bring it out of The Great Depression. ... When the men in the factor...

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Compare the maps of the fighting fronts in WWI and WWII and discuss what this comparison reveals about the nature of fighting in the two wars. ... During the First World War, armies came to an unexpected surprise to military tactics, trench warfare. ... The invasion of the Soviet Union failed and the US entered the war and was a major factor in the war. ... Each of these two wars was fought differently. In the first one an invasion which soon lead to trench warfare ending in a stalemate, and in world war II it was fought over other lands and more people were more actively involved. ...

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Japan's military expansion during the 1930's led to its entry into World War II in December of 1941, when Japanese bombers executed a devastating surprise attack on the United States naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... For example, he criticizes Hirohito for waiting too long to surrender in World War II. ... It focuses on the end of World War II. It states that MacArthur could have seen that Hirohito was tried as a war criminal. ... Therefore, he made sure that Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo war crimes trial. ...

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The attack also got the United States into World War II. ... Congress declared war on Japan. ... The United States had stayed out of the war. ... The attack also got the United States into World War II. ... Congress declared war on Japan. ...

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Near the end of World War II, the United States dropped two bombs on Japan; one on the city of Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. ... Innocent women and children were killed because of the bomb even though they weren't the ones fighting the war. ... Our leaders were operating under the "War is Hell" doctrine. It states that ending a war as quickly as possible is the right decision. ... The U.S. actions to drop the bomb were unjust and followed the overall trend in World War II which was mass killing innocent civilians....

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With that vote, America entered World War II. On December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. In the years following 1941, America prepared for war, and in 1945 we finally dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. ... In the conclusion of the war America defended their country as well as defeating Japan. ... America is at war now due to terrorist attacks, and this shows that we will not be broken. ...

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The status of women in Japan has changed greatly over the years since the end of the World War II (Shinotsuka 1989). Before the war, Japanese women lived in a patriarchal society. ... After the war, Japan added into their Constitution an equal opportunity employment law. ...

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Mass Evacuation From the mid-1800s through World War II, the San Francisco Bay area was in constant turmoil with people of Asian decent. ... Some had children and siblings fighting in the war. ... Living in a large Japanese-American community, Okita was likely told of his family heritage and their plight during World War II. ... During the World War I, the anti-Japanese sentiment diminished slightly when Japan entered the war on the side of the allies. ... This made the area a war zone. ...

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The First World War changed the political situation in East Asia. ... Then on the other side of the world one event transformed the situation, war broke out in Europe. The outbreak of war in Europe in September of 1939 was timely for Japan. ... Every other damaged ship was repaired and return to service at some point during the war. ... Within a few days, Germany and Italy had also now declared war on the United States. ...

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Coming to Terms with My Ignorance The dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered as a point of Western victory in World War II, just as the attack on Pearl Harbor is remembered as "the day that went down in infamy". ... I received yet another life lesson from the reading: I completely understood the sentiments of the Japanese civilians of World War II. ... I never believed that the Japanese weren't people; I had just assumed that the citizenry during World War II had different hopes and ideals than the citizens of the Allies. After all, wasn't that why our c...

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The girls of the schools share their points of view about the game (also known as "The Bat 6 Game-), their families and friends, and their feelings about World War II. ... The plot is historically informing, as it portrays a rural town's aftermath of World War II. ... Bat 6's 50 year anniversary will remain scoreless, but the girls did not leave empty-handed; they realized that although the game went down in history as being the only failure, they grew up emotionally by learning about prejudice and the effects of war on people's behavior and feelings for each other. ...

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People called this war as the World War II. ... Hong Kong people were taken in on their war and forced to live a brutal life. ... Through out the First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Japanese Annexation of Korea, and the World War I, Japan gained their force and imperialized. ... On the other hand, when the World War II started, Japan was facing a shortage of military demand, thus they had to rely on their occupied territories to make up for those shortages. ... However, Hong Kong was captured by Japan in eighteen days, and the capitulation of Hong Kong was signed on December 26, 1941,...

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