Manchuria

While campaigning for last year’s national vote, Narendra Modi promised a “new chapter” in Indo-Pak history if he became India’s Prime Minister (P.M). Instead, bilateral relations during his year and a half in office have not budged past a prologue both exhausting and marred by testy cross-border rhetoric. All that has changed now, at least on the surface. After Modi pleasantly surprised Pakistan by gatecrashing P.M Nawaz Sharif’s birthday party on December 25, there is hope for a new era, or at

economy vowed to fix the stock market and make life better for the citizens of the United States. The War started in 1939, but the road to war started way before that. In 1931 Japan wanted to expand their military power so they decided to invade Manchuria, China. Japan succeeded in their invasion and in the process massacred over 300,000 Chinese prisoners, both military and civilian. Japan was not the only country seeking power. Germany who had lost the First World War came under new leadership in

In 1868, The Meiji Restoration in Japan begins as the Emperor Meiji oversees an era of rapid modernization, creates a conscript army, and abolishes the samurai-class ranking which has defined order in Japan since the 1600's. Education is reformed, a constitution is created; a parliament established. Victory in wars with Russia and China will begin the dominant period of Japanese nationalism and influence leading to World War II. Japan in modern times is one of the most technologically advanced countries

America faced many challenges during the Korean War. Challenges such as South Korea having a difficult time defending itself, the Soviet Union avoiding resolutions, and the conflict of China entering the war. The Korean War. The Korean War happened after World War II, when the U.S. wanted to fight off communist influence made by the USSR. The U.S. wanted to prevent the ideology of communism from invading countries because it caused the fear of another World War to occur. This caused a major conflict

Madison Coons October 19th, 2017 HIST-103 Nationalism and Fascism in World War II     The thought of living in a Nationalist or Fascist government scares many, but this was a very common lifestyle to some during World War II. To be able to understand the the rise of dictatorship, you must understand what was happening during WWII. Dictators were able to take power in many places such as Germany, Italy, and East Asia, due to the Great Depression spreading around the world, and many other heavily

The Three-anti campaign was launched in Manchuria and aimed at members of the Communist Party of China and bureaucratic officials and the three areas covered were-: a- Waste b- Corruption and c- Bureaucracy. The Five-anti campaign targeted the capitalist class of the society and was a kind of war

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is a family memoir written by Chinese author Jung Chang spanning a century in Imperial China, through and past the Cultural Revolution. The book recounts the lives of three women in China via biographies, these women being Chang’s grandmother, mother, and lastly her own autobiography. Chang begins the book by recounting the biography of her grandmother, Yu-fang. Yu-fang’s family was poor, and so her father planned to have her be taken as a concubine by General

While it seems as if Japan was planning it for many years, the attack on Pearl Harbor still managed to take many Americans by surprise. No one expected that they would be fighting for their life on December 7th, 1941. Within a few hours, our nation was dragged into World War II, fighting against Japan in the Pacific and in Europe against their ally, Nazi Germany. However, the question that remains unanswered is “Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?”. At the time, the United States was recovering

no one was really worried about it because they figured that if Germany takes over enough smaller countries, they would just stop themselves. They had this same mindset with Japan as that country had expanded its reach to other countries such as Manchuria and China in mid-1930s(Foner, 907-908). It became concerning when Italy’s leader, Benito Mussolini, began to side with Hitler and his idea of fascism, an aggressive form of nationalism; however, the other countries such as France, Britain, and America

December 7, 1941, was on of the worst attacks ever on the United States. Out of that day, 2,403 soldiers were killed in action, 1,178 were wounded in action. Through the misjudgments of numerous U.S. armed forces personnel, the Japanese were able to carry out this terrible attack, which crippled the United States’ Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and