General Douglas Macarthur Accomplishments

In a political manner, the use of the atomic bomb put an end to the Japanese military dictatorship and put in place a constitutional monarchy, similar to the United Kingdom's. Even though they still have an emperor, the power rests in the hands of politicians. This helped stop the spread of communism here.

On August 15th Japan surrendered, and on September 2nd, 1945 they signed the “Instrument of Surrender”. Hospitals were filled with patients who had not seemed sick before. People vomited, bled from their gums, and spots had begun to appear on their skin. Later Japanese doctors discovered that the people were dying from radiation that came from the atomic bomb. {look up: conspiracy theory} When considering using the atomic bombs, President Truman took into account the lowest possible cost for ending the war, he also wanted to end the war quickly. Truman once stated, “When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast.” After the Pearl Harbor invasion. The U.S. started with “Operation Downfall,” invading Kyushu, many casualties where estimated, but this war proved to be even more deadly than predicted. General MacArthur thought that dropping more bombs, and using air power by itself would protect American lives, while also bringing forth a quicker surrender from the Japanese. When I look at both sides of the 1945 Japan bombing I really tried to stay open about the different viewpoints. The fact that the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands crippled Japan was interesting to find. I felt that the Japanese did not want to compromise, and in some way bit the hands that fed them. It seems these allies had allot of power. The Japanese seemed to only

American forces occupied Okinawa and Iwo Jima and were intensely fire bombing Japanese cities. But Japan had an army of 2 million strong stationed in the home islands guarding against invasion.” The United States seemed to show no progression in the war. President Truman knew that there was no progress being made during the war and that we were decreasing in supplies and troops to keep this fight going like this. He then had to look at his remaining option and hope that his decision was the best decision for the

The attack on Pearl Harbor was on the 7th of December 1941. This was an unexpected military attack that was conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii. The short terms effects are the loss of naval bases, air forces and also is the amount of people that were killed during this attack. The long-term effect was how the Japanese got America involved due to this event that then led to World War II.

I believe that Truman did the right thing in dismissing General Douglas MacArthur. Although a war hero respected by millions of Americans, MacArthur took charge of the U.S forces during the Korean War and made several mistakes due to his impulsiveness and egotistical mindset. MacArthur continuously insulted President Truman’s policy to the press, as well as ignored advice from superiors. MacArthur abused his title as a war hero and did whatever he wanted due to his narcissism, disrespecting those politically above him. After recapturing Seoul, the capital of South Korea, during the Korean War, he pursued the North Korean forces all the way to the Chinese border by Yalu River, despite being cautioned. This resulted in being surprised by thousands

This also shows that the United states were desperate in finding a way to make the empire of Japan to surrender. Another example is that the Japanese government bombed pearl harbor so they would take over the pacific ocean. They also invaded the philippines islands and were going to invade the oil fields too, if it weren't for Macarthur the United States might of loss its oil fields. As you can see why the us dropped the atomic bomb on the empire of japan.

One political feature that has change the course of the Japanese public health system in disturbing wealth and power to an egalitarian society was proposed by General Douglas MacArthur whom distinguish the 3 D’s as being demilitarization, democratization, and decentralization. His concept was motivated by “ recognizing the importance of the country’s citizens regaining self-respect. Removing the traces of Japan’s feudal structure, developing an economic foundation based on social justice, instituting land reform policies, and giving voice to women and labor unions were largely accomplished through the establishment of a new constitution and attendant

The Japanese troops were expected to find their own food and were even ordered to eat captured enemies, even dead Japanese soldiers. When they ran out of bullets they had to fight with rocks and did not have the supplies they needed to win. Japanese troops were left to fend for themselves and did not get support from the government like other troops did during World War II. Japanese soldiers were fighting for their emperor and did whatever they needed to to win. Even if that meant using their natural resources. The soldiers did things that were unethical because they were told to. The Japanese were not given enough supplies but were still told to fight till their

On the 2nd September 1945, Japan formally surrendered to the Allied nations, indicating the cessation of nearly 4 years of the Pacific War. The American representative MacArthur spoke of ‘a better world emerging out of the carnage of the past’, and therefore the Occupation began. Despite the USA’s and minor allies conflicting aims for occupation, between 1945 and 1951, they set out to garrison a peace settlement within Japan, spearheaded by MacArthur and his 3 key aims of demilitarisation, disarmament and democratization. These objectives were achieved, with the allies remaking Japan economically, politically, militarily and socially. However by 1950, MacArthur’s policies were revised, lessening the aims success, due to the emergence of

In a political manner, the use of the atomic bomb put an end to the Japanese military dictatorship and put in place a constitutional monarchy, similar to the United Kingdom's. Even though they still have an emperor, the power rests in the hands of politicians. This helped stop the spread of communism here.

The occupation authorities were made by the joint Allied operation that was headed by the United States of America because it was America who surged war with Japan. Therefore, major reformation of the society and Japanese institutions were taken care by America. Needless to say, that this was the major reason why most of the societal and institutional reformation in Japan was done with the American image. General Douglas MacArthur, who served as the supreme commander of the Allied Powers was from America and therefore, American wanted to completely remake the Japanese institutions making it a democratic, peaceful and militarily successful nation. America already realized the chaos, the pain and the destruction that they have committed towards Japan and probably because of this, they stopped their revengeful attitude and started treating the

For the following essay, I will be describing the history of the Postwar Constitution of Japan written by General Douglas MacArthur and his staff in 1946 after the Allies’ victory in World War II. Rights such as freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be established under Section 10 were one of many that was included in the document. In addition, the document stated: as per the text written under Section 12, "the occupying forces of the Allies shall be withdrawn from Japan as soon as these objectives have been accomplished and there has been established in accordance with the freely expressed will of the Japanese people a peacefully inclined and responsible government".

The Meiji Restoration had a great impact in Japan, which hasn’t always been the modernized country it is today. The Meiji Restoration, in 1853, was the start of Japan’s modernization. The Meiji Restoration was when American Commodore Perry forced Japan to trade with the outside world. At the time, Japan was far behind the rest of the world in military, government, and machines. Once they began trading, they turned from a feudal society into a constitutional one and acquired many new resources and factories started being built. Their military power increased, and they got a stronger government as well. The Meiji restoration helped Japan become modernized and caught up with the rest of the world.

The new constitution had Anglo-American and European democratic ideals. In section 10, it says, “the Japanese government shall remove all obstacles to the revival and strengthening of democratic

After the end of World War II, U.S. occupation in Japan gave them a good start. Between 1945 and 1952, the U.S. occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms. With the United States, the leaders of the Allied powers of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China discussed how to disarm Japan, deal with its colonies (especially Korea and Taiwan), stabilize the Japanese economy, and prevent the remilitarization of the state in the future.