Manchuria

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depression with little hope for the American people ("Posts about Lou Gehrig on History For Free") . In addition, the issue of war seemed to resurface and be more prevalent than ever as Adolf Hitler took control of Germany and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria occurred in Europe ("Posts about Lou Gehrig on History For Free"). Along with the ideas of war, The Dust Bowl began in the Great Plains which left farmers out of work ("Posts about Lou Gehrig on History For Free"). With all of the terrifying events

the Japanese had been planning this event for various reasons. The Japanese and the Americans had an on-going rivalry in the pacific that was only getting more extreme. Japan’s imperial drive had been evident ever since 1931, when they invaded Manchuria. In July 1941 Japan invaded French Indochina and Roosevelt continued to avoid direct confrontation as he didn’t want to get involved. But the Unites States was in the way of Japans take over in the pacific as they controlled the Philippines and had

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a great depression but was runned by rich capitalist called the Zaibatsu. Once Hirohito came to power he focused on using his army to grow his nation. Hirohito focused on imperialism in which Japan first invaded northeastern part of China called Manchuria and from there he used his army to take over majority of Asia, such as China, Korea, Vietnam,Cambodia,Thailand,Malaysia, Indonesia, and much more smaller islands in the South Pacific. In addition, to wanting to expand its nation due through imperialism

and increasing it substantially. He then invaded Poland, the first step in his plan to conquer all of Germany’s former lands. Japan waged war against China for the same reason. More land was needed for the growing population, and the resources in Manchuria were needed as well. Japan staged the Mukden incident to legitimize their reason for invasion, and this depicts the effect that nationalism had on Japan’s leader. They went as far as to stage an explosion on their own train tracks to give them a

and relentless bombing of Japan, the nation refused to surrender. As a final attempt to avoid the invasion of Japan, the United States dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, and the United States

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The first atomic bomb exploded July 16, 1945. The bomb was so powerful that the heat generated by the blast was 4 times the temperature at the center of the sun, blew out windows in houses more than 200 miles away, and killed every living creature within a mile (Faragher, 721). Out of fear that the Nazi 's might develop an atomic bomb, Franklin D. Roosevelt established a small nuclear research program in 1939. The president released resources to create the Manhattan Project, which was the American

eventually the group security provision sank the likelihood of U.s. support. Throughout the 1930s, the League demonstrated insufficient despite developing militarism, mostly because of the U.s. choice not to take part. The Japanese intrusion of Manchuria and ensuing push to increase control over bigger spans of Northeast China in 1931 headed President Herbert Hoover and his Secretary of State, Henry Stimson, to create the Stimson Doctrine, which expressed that the United States might not distinguish