General Hideki Tojo's Role In Ww2

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Hitler is the most infamous political figure in history. He was the leader of the Nazi party and the main opposition of the Allied Forces in World War II. With his corrupt ideology he was able to sway an entire nation and poison the leaders of Japan and Italy. With Hitler and his ever growing army he set a plan into motion to spread the Nazi party throughout the world, beginning in Europe. He committed mass murder of eleven million people, six million being of the Jewish faith.

On May 1, 1943, he was shot in the right ankle. He was then taken to the Majdanek.

MacArthur was born on an Army base in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 1880, into a family with military history. When he was born his Dad was a captain , and had been decorated for his service in the Union Army during the Civil War. His Mom's brothers fought for the south during the civil war. The base where he was born was just the first of several military post which he lived as a kid. In 1893 his family moved to San Antonio, Texas, and he attended the West Texas Military Academy. After high school, he enrolled in the military academy at West Point, where he excelled, and in 1903 he graduated with honors. After graduation, MacArthur was commissioned as a junior officer in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Felix Longoria is a name that should be recognizable to the general public, but sadly is not. This young father and husband answered the call of duty in November of 1944 and after basic training was immediately shipped off to fight in the Philippines. Serving as an infantryman he volunteered to join a patrol that was to weed out and exterminate enemy snipers. On June, 16th, 1945 he would give the ultimate sacrifice for his nation while on this particular patrol. According to the reports that his family received, the war department found that the cause of death occurred when a mortar was fired towards him and half of his body was eviscerated. Since the war effort was still ongoing it would be three years before his body would be able to come home to Three Rivers, Texas for a proper burial.

Japan had been the one to bomb Pearl Harbor. The bombs had killed more than 2,300 Americans in the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. This act had destroyed the U.S.S. Arizona and the U.S.S. Oklahoma completely. This attack had beached and /or sank ships but damaged about 9 others. Aircrafts were destroyed and damaged.

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World War Two was filled with many different leaders, who all carried different leadership tactics that supported the efforts of the war in various ways. Two leaders that had a huge impact on the outcome of the war were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. These two leaders were most commonly known for their negative impact on society; however, I am choosing to compare the good that these two leaders did for their country during their time in leadership.

In 1933 he was appointed major general, two years later he was appointed head of Kwatung military police. Tojo earned the titles of Lieutenant General and Chief of Staff of the Kwatung army sometime between March 1937 and May 1938. Later that month in May he was appointed Vice Minister of War but he turned it down because he wanted to continue his work in the armed services. In 1941, Fuminaro Kondoye appointed him Minister of War. While he was Japan's Minister of War he wanted to conquer other European countries because he thought that if he did it would make Japan stronger. He failed to gain any land and in the end he lost support from people throughout Europe. Tojo also made his thoughts on the United States clear. He thought that we were lazy and incapable of being a string nation. Also while he was Minister of War Tojo made it clear that Japan should push south in the Far East and take the land owned by European nations. Not long after he was appointed Minister of War he was again appointed Prime Minister by the emperor of Japan on October 16th, 1941. When he was finally appointed Prime Minister he was convinced that a war with America could not be avoided. So he put Japan on a full war alert, which basically means that they were aware that they were going into war and that they were prepared. While he was Japan's Prime Minister he authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor. He thought that by doing that that it would again make Japan look stronger and would increase Japan's support for him. When the attack on Pearl Harbor took place it plunged the Far East into a war which was to end the destruction of Hiroshima. Following the attack of Pearl Harbor only made Tojo's power grow. Within hours after the attack, Tojo broadcasted a brief message to his countrymen warning them that "to annihilate this enemy and to establish a stable new order in East Asia, the nation first

In 1935–41 he served as the military adviser to the Philippine government. In July 1941 he was named commander of US forces in the Far East but, overwhelmed by the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to leave his forces on Bataan peninsula (with his promise ‘I shall return!’) and go to Australia. In 1942–5, as commander of the Southwest Pacific area (1942–5), he organized an island-hopping offensive that resulted in the return of US forces to the Philippines (Oct 1944). Supreme commander of the Allied powers, he presided over the Japanese surrender (2 Sep 1945). As military governor of Japan (1945–50), he was a benevolent dictator in forcing Japan to purge itself of its militarism and to adopt more democratic ways.

Once he was taken into custody by the rehabilitation center for child war veterans he and a kid he met at the center by the name of Mambu started a fight between the rebel and army children. The army kids killed four rebels and wounded several others using bayonets

He was executed at the same place the massacre took place. He very calmly took off his coat and gave his hat to the marshal. He very calmly sat down on his coffin and he had requested to let his hands free. His request was granted. But he had to be blind folded. This execution was a sad time for John d. Lee.

During that summer he took many different back strengthening exercises, and in September he was accepted by the Navy. In March 1943, as a lieutenant he took command of a PT (torpedo) boat in the Solomon Islands. On the night of August 2, his boat was cruising west of New Georgia it was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He rallied the survivors and managed to get them to an island after being thrown across the deck onto his back. He then towed a wounded man three miles through a rough journey through different seas. He was a very brave man, for several days he risked his life repeatedly, swimming into dangerous waters hoping to find a rescue ship. He finally met up with two friendly islanders and sent them for aid with a message that he carved on a coconut. Back home he received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and the Purple Heart, but his earlier back injury had been aggravated, and unfortunately he contracted malaria. After an operation on his back, he was discharged early in 1945.

Isoroku argued for war with the U.S once Japan made the decision to invade the rich part of Southeast Asia. On dec. 7 1941 under the command of Vice Adm his carries scored a victory over the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor. This helped to ensure a prolonged and total war. He tried to destroy U.S ships that weren't caught a Pearl Harbor but that plan failed because the United States had information about the Japanese forces but he also failed because his plans were too complex for the others to understand on how to fully carry out. Even though he was a better tactical than strategist he was the most prominent officer during World War ll.

World War II end it, while the Cold War just started. As an old realist like Niccolò Machiavelli would say “the end justifies the means.” The thinker would had agree with President’s Truman decision if only Japan would had been stronger and ready to keep on fighting and a an outcome of understanding would had come out. The poor excused, if payed attention, if Japan does not provide absolute surrender, although its people have sworn loyalty to the Emperor at that time, they would be attack. United States officials Byrnes and Baruh influenced Truman in using Japan, although he denies it, as an experiment arena for the atomic bombs. David McCullough wrote a biography of Truman and he mention how the Secretary of State, Stettinius was truly not an expert of foreign policy and did not know what he was doing.