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    place on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor was a U.S naval base in Hawaii, more specifically the island of Oahu. The attackers were the Japanese, the American soldiers knew this because when they started flying overhead they could see the “rising sun” flag on the bottom sides of the plane's wings. The attack is a major reason that the U.S entered WWII. The attack was a very well thought out and very well executed plan, at exactly 7:53 AM the first wave of attackers came in planes dropping bombs and

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    americans and the Japanese, the japanese had attacked us Americans at the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii. During that battle the American had one which is why the Americans had went up the hill and put the American Flag on the top of the hill. When the Americans won a battle they would put a flag there, to represent our victory. I’m not to sure on all the exact details or why but,

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    Whaling Needs to Stop

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    whole world and not just to Japan and Norway. Even with the restrictions by the IWC, Japan still continues for “Scientific Research”. Scientific Research has recently been deemed illegal in the Arctic water, but they have completely disregarded all sanctions put against them to try and stop the unethical whaling. Not only that they were importing whale meat from Norway because of its lower prices there, the whale ban was executed to make all whaling illegal which Japan failed to recognise. 400 whales

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    Unlike other countries, Japan being the prime example, their cultural stigma is quite conservative and restricted. Japanese is to be considered of both parents being Japanese, thus you are considered as a Japanese person. Those who are not are considered to be “pure blood” are called “hafu”, meaning half. An example of this is the winner of 2015 Miss Japan. Ariana Miyamoto is half African American and Japanese. BBC news reported that many

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    Panama Canal Essay

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    at sea, is a further example of problems with flags of convenience. The vessel flew the Panama flag and had the crew from Indonesia, were shipping coal from Australia to Japan. Within a six week period two crew members died by suspicious deaths upon the ship, with repeated reports of harassment, bullying, criminal activity and poor labour conditions, due to lack of screening and oversight of operations. The Panama Canal is a popular area for flags of convenience for vessels wanting a safe harbour

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    against the Empire of Japan during World War Two. The goal of the two operations was to secure strategically important islands close to Japan to use for bombing campaigns. The battles for Iwo Jima(February-March 1945) and Okinawa f(April-June 1945) killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians and helped to win the war for the United States. In February of 1944, the U.S. launched Operation Detachment, an effort to seize control of an important island close to Japan. Iwo Jima could provide

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    Iwo Jima Research Paper

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    The picture consists of six men raising a flag on Mount Suribachi. The six men that raised the flag went by the names of Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, Michael Strank, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, and John Bradley (American- historama). Joe Rosenthal was the one who captured the picture that would later become one of the most

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    Justin flora Under the power of Adolf Hitler Nazism ruled Germany during 1933 and through 1945. In 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the German workers power, which was founded by Karl Harrer and Anton Drexler. The party thought that the treaty of Versailles that ended world war one was unfair to Germany, and felt they were given jobs that couldn't be paid. Hitler then became a very famous leader by blaming the Marxists and Jews for the economic problems that Germany faced after the war. In 1921 Adolf Hitler

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    Heinz Kaminski, was able to provide confirmation of events and data that was independent of both the Russian and U.S. space agencies. A compilation of sightings appeared in "Observations of Apollo 11" (Sky and Telescope magazine, November, 1969). Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)SELENE lunar probe obtained several photographs showing evidence of Moon landings. A total of 382 kilograms (842 lb) of Moon rocks and dust were collected during the Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 missions. Some

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    and forced surrender. In order to understand Truman’s decision one has to be able to understand the events that lead up to his choice. One of many events that took place was in 1937 when Japan invaded China because the Japanese claimed that Chinese army men fired at them at the Marco Polo bridge causing Japan to do a full invasion on China. China 's most important port was taken over and that was Nanking, that 's when the rape of Nanking was created. Nanking was a brutal place to be, “Pregnant women

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