People of the War of the Pacific

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    executed by the Japanese military code named Kido Butai on Pearl Harbor resulted in many casualties to both the Japanese and American forces. Most importantly the accomplishment of Japans main goal of destroying the possible threat of the United States pacific fleet. Although the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was extremely successful,

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    The U.S did have to drop the bomb to bring an end to world war II in the pacific. The bomb needed to be dropped to keep the Soviets out of the pacific, to demonstrate the power of bombs and the U.S., and the cost in the U.S. troops to invade Japan. The U.S. needed to drop the bomb so that the Soviets wouldn’t get into the pacific. If the bomb was not dropped in Japan Russia would have tried to invade and take over Japan and become closer to the US. Because the bomb destroyed Japan and most of its

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    congress to declare war on Japan. Congress approved his declaration of war with only one dissenting vote. After the events that took place at Pearl Harbor, America had officially joined World War II. These events, and America joining the war, would impact America in a major way, and would change the course of American history (Santella). America at War: What Led Them to Join the War? Although the events that took place at Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise, there were many people that believed an

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    During the early morning of August 6, 1945, after numerous years of conflict between the US and Japan in the Pacific, the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, loaded with a new and destructive weapon, soared across the sky over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Seconds later, that new weapon- an atomic bomb that released its destructive energy by the splitting of uranium atoms- lit up the sky, killing nearly 80,000 Japanese civilians instantly. Three days later, the United States dropped a second

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    The reality of Asian and Pacific Islander communities is contradictory compared to the Idealized one put upon by American expectations. The model minority myth is the unrealistic perception of how Asian and Pacific Islander communities expected behavior and status, as the successfully assimilated group that other minority groups should emulate with no communal problems. The reality is much different than the expectations as Asian communities encompass a wide range of countries, and backgrounds, no

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    World War II was a very historic period. It lasted from 1939 to 1945, almost 6 years. During this period the Allied nations, consisting of Britain, France, America versus the Axis power, consisting of Germany and Japan. The Australia/ America Alliance was solidified due to Japan’s involvement in war. The key events that solidified this alliance is the: attack on Pearl Harbour, the relationship between Australian Prime Minister John Curtin and US General Douglas MacArthur and the formation of ANZUS

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    Tojo was the eldest son in his family. Tojo entered military school in 1899. He ended up being forced to follow in the footsteps of his father. His father was a military man. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Sino-Japanese War and a major general in the Russo-Japanese War. Tojo and Katsuko Ito ended up getting married. Together they had seven children. He was born into a more respected family. Tojo's mother was the daughter of a Buddhist priest. He was Shinto and Buddhist. Shinto is a set of

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    connecting the eastern part of the U.S. railroads with the Pacific west coast area. The greater transcontinental railroad itself consists of several railroads projects, the first of which were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, and later, the Northern Pacific, Santa Fe, Great Northern, Texas and Pacific, and Western Pacific projects would follow suite. All of were approved for construction shortly after the Civil War. Prior to the war there was some skepticism towards the railway system.

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    The Pacific Theater of World War Two and the European Theater were very similar in the fact that both included an enemy with beliefs of superiority over other peoples. In the European Theater there were the Germans and their Aryan Race and in the Pacific there were the Japanese with their Yamato Race. The main difference between the Germans and the Japanese however were their ruthlessness, while the Germans would attempt to follow laws of war when it came to captives the Japanese would kill everyone

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    Chaos and continual disorder encompassed the people across the globe in the years prior to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939. The Great Depression that had struck soon after the First World War left much of the world unemployed and desperate for relief. Nationalism swept through Germany in response to the terms of the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I. China and Japan had been at war since Japanese troops invaded Manchuria in 1931. Germany, Italy, and Japan

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