Japanese war crimes

MODERN HISTORY -2012 Topic one – USA 1919-1941 Topic two – conflict in the pacific Topic three – Douglas MacArthur Topic Four – World War I TOPIC ONE – USA 1919-1941 USA 1920’S * the radio age * felt like istory had turned a corner and never going back * stock market * black Thursday November 24 1929 * the jazz age * a speakeasyyyyyyy How significant were the Republican policies in causing the great depression? The significance of the republic policies

Chinese Civil War becoming the reigning regime in China. The new communist leadership drastically changed China’s future. Today the CCP remains in power in China, shaping every aspect of Chinese society. Academics like Chalmers Johnson argue that the CCP’s ability to mobilize Chinese peasants ultimately led to the CCP’s victory. This paper will supplement Johnson’s argument by examining how KMT economic, military, and ideological missteps led to the CCP’s victory. The Chinese Civil War started in

After the lost of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), China was forced to resect Taiwan and Penghu to Japan, by signing the “Treaty of Shimonoseki”. Since then, Japan had ruled Taiwan for 50 years (1895-1945). After Japan occupied Taiwan, Japan used modern education and economic construction to assimilate Taiwanese. During the Japanese ruling period, Goto Shinpei was the historical figure that worth mentioning. People defined him as the most influential Japanese official in the modernization of

of the world. How was it then, that Japan was able to industrialize and modernize so quickly in such few years, even with its centuries of traditional protocol and isolation from the world? Even through the country’s complete destruction from World War 2, and having to start from basically ground zero in terms of its industries and social advancement, Japan was able to quickly rise up and become on the world’s largest technological and industrial powerhouses. During the 19th century, Japan began to

of the population in the world is unaware about. Students learn about World War Two almost every year, specifically what happened in Europe while missing what took place in China. When Prince Akaska was the in charge of China in the absence of General Matsui, the Japanese decided to invade the City of Nanking. Nanking, the capital of China, went from being great to ruins in a matter of six weeks. As soon as the Japanese invaded China, about 300,000 soldiers surrendered along with a lot of citizens

thinker, has placed some limitations on fighting a war. This essay will argue three limitations, which are: waging war, the killing of innocents and self-defense, and whether they should or should not be applied to modern warfare. To begin with, Aquinas (Aquinas Summa Theologiae Extract II-II q.40 a.1) has stated that “the authority of the prince by whose command war is to be waged”, “a just reason for the war is required” and “those who wage war should have a righteous intent”, which should be applied

military strategist. Under his leadership and the actions he performed during The Long March, Chinese Civil War then defeating the Kuomintang Party to built the New China are the main epic episodes. Mao ZeDong's extravagant actions made two of the many changes to China. They are the shift from a capitalist system to a socialist system and the achievement of China's independence against Japanese imperialism (Somo, 2013a). The influence of Mao’s theory has been widespread to the world up until this day

Stalin’s peace treaty with Hitler was of course broken quickly after it was formed by Hitler himself. Hitler too ignored history and fought with Russia in the winter and ultimately lost, helping him lose the war. Stalin caught off any foreign Russia had left with and focus on the ongoings in his country. Mao on the other hand tried to ally China With Russia after becoming communists, after it became apparent Russia had no intention in helping China become a

Every year or so, something happens in the media that brings us all back to the atrocities of World War II, and the German persecution of the Jews. It seems that the horrors of that time can only be digested and understood in small bites. How else can we personalize and comprehend a tragedy of that magnitude? Most of what we read and view in the media about the holocaust is a perspective from the Jewish experience. Recently, however, a question has been posed in regards to finding closure with that

Do war crime tribunals deliver justice? Student ID: 2328581 Introduction The Bosnian war in the early 1990s engendered ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other crimes against humanity. Under such context of international climate, nearly fifty years after the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials, the United Nations created the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTs) to prosecute individuals suspected of committing war crimes regardless of their official positions