The Pros And Cons Of The Second World War

Is it possible for the torture and deaths of thousands of innocent lives to be justified? Starting in 1932, Japanese scientists began doing research for the Imperial Japanese Army, in which they subjected over 3000 people to brutal experiments. Treated as if they were lab rats their suffering was seen by the scientists as part of the greater good for the Empire of Japan. After World War Two the United States government pardoned these scientists in order to ensure that they would not destroy all their results. To let all the results of their experiments be lost would make all the suffering that the victims went through be lost and meaningless.

The end of World War I was the beginning of a new age. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War. Imagine you are living in 1918. State where you are living and how the end of the war will impact your daily life. Discuss the pros and the cons of the changes this war introduced to society and how you imagine those changes will impact the United States in the years to come.

Even though the United States emerged as a clear victor of World War I, many Americans after the war felt that their involvement in the conflict had been a mistake (Markus Schoof, “The American Experience During World War II,” slide 3). This belief, however, did not deter the country from engaging in many other international affairs in the future, most importantly the WWII and the Cold War. Right from the Manifest Destiny, which led to expand its empire at home and abroad, to the World War I, the country had come a long way from being somewhat a lonely-land to a global superpower of the 20th century. Its influence in the international arena grew unprecedently after its commitment to the World War II, and like they say, the rest is history. If the WWII was a resounding success to the American legacy, what followed, the Cold War, put many implications on the American diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and to the world. Although the rising Fascism in Europe and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drove the U.S. to enter the WWII, historians over the years have laid equal blames on both nations for starting the Cold War. These two events helped in shaping up many domestic and foreign policies for the U.S.

World War II was a unique time in American History. World War II represented the best and the worst that the world has to offer. The atrocities committed by the Axis forces were deplorable actions that would require an astonishing amount of coordination and teamwork on the part of the Allied forces. Hitler, with his insatiable desire to spread his vision of Arian supremacy across the world, resulted in the United States and their European Allies engaging in a War that the fate of the world depended on. As a result of the severity and high stakes nature of World War II the United States would be forced to cooperate with any and all resources available to them, even if it means collaborating with a different enemy, The Mafia.

There really were only three debates surrounding the Treaty of Versailles. The first would be among the Europeans who disagreed with the terms of the treaty because it opposed their tradition of imperialism, or at least, President Wilson’s Fourteen Points (Foner 762). There also was conflict between the Allies who argued over who claimed what and Germany’s punishment in their belief that Germany was responsible for the start of the World War. The wording of President Wilson’s Fourteen points did not convince the Europeans which lead to the French and British empires, for example, to reject any colony under their rule pleading for “self-determination” as President Wilson stated (Foner 764). The second debate would be those among Eastern Europe

What were the positive and negative results of the war regarding America's position in the world, and why?

As discussed above, World War II did have a great effect on the lives of women. The war opened up many opportunities for women in the employment arena and furthermore, encouraged them to pursue these opportunities. As a result, women discovered they could do many of the jobs that were typically labeled “man’s work” and what’s more they not only enjoyed it but, excelled at it. But, this was not the catalyst that caused women to leave their homes and enter the workforce as originally thought. According to the Palmer Survey data, a set of historical data on 4,350 working women from 1950, in addition to statistics from the Department of Labor regarding women in the workforce during the 1940’s, “more than 50 percent of the women working in 1950 had been employed in 1940 and that the rate of entrance into the labor force, among those employed in 1950, was the same during the first half of the 1940’s as during the second half. Just 20 percent of those working in 1950 had entered the labor force during World War II, and about half the wartime entrants left

September 3, 1939 was the day that many people’s lives changed. That is date of which Great Britain entered World War II. Great Britain would fight alongside the allied powers, which consisted of USSR, France, and US. The axis powers, which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan, would try and bomb the allied powers into surrender. This brutal war would go on for nearly five and a half years, finally ending on May 8, 1945. The end of the war marked both celebration and mourning. For Great Britain some major turning points during the war were the Battle of Britain, and the invasion scare. Many families had to make sacrifices during the war, some of them life changing. The people of Great Britain refused to go to war and were in denial, many of them would not listen to future Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill warned the people about Hitler and Nazi Germany . Because of everybody’s fear of the war, Britain was not prepared when it came time for the country to enter the war.

In January,1919 the allied leaders attended a peace conference to discuss about the peace terms they would offer to the central power in Paris. Twenty-seven victorious Allied powers were present, but the meetings were dominated by the ‘Winners’, Britain, France and USA. Russia was not summoned because she was not trusted after the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 and had already made peace with Germany. The treaty was crafted so that Germany would be disabled and it wouldn’t restart another war and the country was severely treated as her most worthy assets were taken. The stipulations of the treaty were categorized into three groups: Territorial, Military and Financial and economic. Germany was coerced by the war

Southeastern Europe was on the very edge of financial disarray, due to the war. This suggests the conspicuous conversation starter: Who will pay? Those economies which are most needing profitable ventures, are the ones slightest fit for thinking of the required money related assets locally or abroad. Along these lines, if the course of financial improvement here were left to the rationale of the free market, there would be no expectation of repairing or enhancing anything. Luckily, we know from the German "financial marvel" after World War II, that there is another approach to

On June 28, 1919, there was a treated that was signed by the allied powers and Germany which ended World War I called the Treaty of Versailles (Treaty of Versailles. 2009) The treaty was brought up by the four-major people who devoted to the treaty which were known as the “Big Four—David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the United States, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy” (Treaty of Versailles n/d). David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson cooperated more into shaping this treaty than the other members of the Allied Powers. The treaty had fifteen parts and 440 articles, Part I was the creation of the Covenant of the New League of Nations, Part II explained the new boundaries of Germany (Treaty of Versailles 2009) Finally Part III made a demilitarized zone and Germany was separated from Saar land for fifteen years. (Treaty of Versailles 2009) The Belgians and the French tried to carry out the treaty, which made them occupy Ruhr in 1922, however financial pressure urged France to scale down its goals and end the occupation. Under both the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan in 1924-1929 Germany finally agreed to pay for the damage they have caused, but due to the great depression the preparations were cancelled in 1932 (Treaty of Versailles. 2009). Germany violated many disarmament provisions of Part V of the treaty during the 1920s, as a matter of fact, in 1935 Hitler denounced the treaty out of respect to Austria,

World War II had a really big conflict on values and ideas because most countries in Europe were involved and some thought that they were being cheated on each other, countries like japan wanted to use more resources to help their people and to help their factories run properly. The ideas were also a major conflict in World War II as the ideas such as the treaty of Versailles did not go well with Germany as they had to pay a big price as they lost in the World War I and they had to compensate France and Great Britain. And countries which did win the war talked about issues like territory invasions, war issues and so on. This did not go well with Germany. Some nations did not allow other nations to enter their territories as they had promised

The devastation left by the Great War (aka World War 1) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many aspects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by the conflicts of WW1. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany left by the harsh punishments and terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

Massive explosions, instant vaporization, and the beginning of new destructive toys all occurred between 1939 to 1945. The Second World War, was the deadliest war in history where more than 30 countries interacted and resulted in eighty-five million deaths. It all started with a man and his thoughts on dominating the world. As for the United States, their decision to get involved was on 7 December, 1941, after the Japanese attacked a military base, Pearl Harbor. As war continued, the United States became one of the top powers by killing around forty-one thousand civilians, even though the Japanese were going to surrender.

War World I was a global experience that for many countries was like nothing they had ever been engaged in before. It caused great divides between nations and was finally ended by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The treaty was made mostly against Germany in an attempt to force them to make the reparations that would be equal to the damages they had caused during the war. Though the Treaty of Versailles was meant to end a World War, it instead resulted in building the tensions that would soon erupt into the Second World War; the faultiness in the Allies’ formation of the treaty ultimately led to German resurgence and vast resentment towards the Allies.