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World War II
During World War II, racism influenced the conduct of the war in the Pacific theater with the use of propaganda by each side characterizing the other using racial stereotyping. In the US,...
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Legal and moral controversies were closely intertwined during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, or the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, as they were more commonly known. For one thing,...
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The Tokyo War Crimes Trials were held from 1946 to 1948. While not as widely-known as the Nuremberg Trials, they proceeded from the same impulse: to bring the men responsible for the outbreak and...
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The Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, or SCAP, was General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur became essentially the military governor of Japan in the aftermath of World War II and was therefore...
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The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a Sunday, for several reasons. First, the Japanese had been expanding their empire for several years, including into China in 1937. They had...
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Operation Valkyrie did not ever actually take place. This was a plan that was supposed to be implemented after the death of Adolf Hitler. However, Hitler did not die (at that time) and so the...
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Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, took place on November 10, 1938 in German territory. It was a response of extreme vengeance—one of the hallmarks of Nazism—to the killing of a Nazi,...
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1929 was the year of the Wall Street Crash, which led to the worst worldwide economic depression in history. Germany was especially hard hit as its economy was built almost entirely on foreign...
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The Nazi party began as a semi-reactionary party specifically responding to the "stabbed in the back" myth, which stated that Germany was winning World War I until the Social Democrats betrayed the...
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World War II (1939–1945) was extremely destructive for the nations of Europe. The conflict had started in Poland and ended with German surrender in Berlin six years later. Almost all of...
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None of the epic battles of World War II happened on American soil. (Hawaii, which is where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor took place, was not yet an American state). This meant that the...
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Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there was serious debate as to whether or not the United States should take an active role in the conflicts in Europe and Asia. Many Americans were not...
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The Allied Powers during World War II (1939–1945) were Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Those three nations held a number of conferences during the conflict to coordinate...
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On August 19, 1942, the Allies attempted an assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in France as part of WWII. The event is thought of as one of the most overwhelming failures on the part of...
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This quote comes from World War II in HD, episode 10, "End Game." In the documentary, Rockie Blunt gives an interview as a survivor of World War II. He was in the army and fought during the Battle...
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Adolph Hitler became the leader—and eventual dictator—of Germany in 1933. He was determined to avenge the Versailles Treaty. The Versailles Treaty had severely punished Germany for its role in...
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When Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933, the Nazis were still a minority party in the coalition government they'd formed with conservatives. Conservative members of the cabinet foolishly...
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To a large extent, World War II arose out of various consequences of the post-World War I settlement. The Versailles Agreement, which imposed harsh penalties on Germany for starting the War, caused...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been known by many names throughout history. This is partly because it had been often failed to be comprehensively understood. In the late 18th Century,...
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The United States' response to German, Italian, and Japanese aggression in the 1930s was weak. America was isolationist during the decade before its entry into World War II. America's strategy for...
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One of the causes of World War II was a worldwide economic depression. The stock market crash that left America reeling through the 1930s was mirrored in economies all over the globe. People became...
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The attack on Pearl Harbor had a momentous impact on the course of World War II (1939–1945). By the time of the attack in December 1941, the war had been going on for more than two years in Europe...
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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing approximately 80,000 people, injuring 35,000 more, and causing another 60,000 people to die slower deaths...
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The unconditional surrender clause represented the unified efforts of the Allies to completely defeat the Axis powers. It meant that no peace would be negotiated which allowed the leadership in...
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Hitler was able to come to power due to the financial hardship brought on by the Versailles Treaty's reparations against Germany. The end of WWI brought confusion to the German population since...
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On the nights of 9–10 November 1938, paramilitary Nazi forces and civilians carried out attacks on Jews in Germany and Austria. They destroyed numerous synagogues, homes, schools, hospitals, and...
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The government affected many aspects of American life during WWII. Politically, the government instituted a draft in order to fulfill its manpower needs; though many young men signed up for...
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Americans knew that Hitler's regime was founded upon anti-Semitism. American newspapers and movie newsreels regularly reported on German actions against Jews, including Kristallnacht, the Nuremberg...
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Ever since America decided to drop two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August, 1945), historians have debated whether American tactics against Japan were justified or...
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The geographical scope of World War II was unlike any war that had preceded it. World War II included combat in North Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and in the oceans of the world. There was also...
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There is no easy, neat answer to how black soldiers and black citizens in general reacted to America's World War II effort in relationship to America’s own segregation and prejudice. However, if we...
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You could take many approaches to this prompt. A comparison of physical damage done to the homefront, focusing on the wartime effects (such as air raids, damage to infrastructure) and postwar...
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That's a very large question to answer, so let me get you started. One similarity between the three is that they created vast police agencies that clamped down on dissent and civil liberties,...
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The consequences of this executive order were felt exclusively by the people of Japanese descent (we cannot properly call them Japanese Americans since the issei were not allowed to be American...
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In the European and the Pacific theaters, the United States faced a well-trained, well-disciplined, and initially well-equipped enemy. Both the Japanese and to a somewhat lesser extent the Germans...
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World War II was the second war in which the U.S. was engaged in which the economy was totally mobilized. Mobilization for the war effort was a major element in America's recovery from the Great...
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D-Day is the World War II military operation which took place on June 6, 1944. It was code-named Operation Neptune, presumably because it involved a water landing by the Allies on the beaches of...
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The main positive effect of World War II was that the Allied powers won and the totalitarian regimes in Japan, Germany, and Italy were stopped. Another positive effect was that World War II...
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The answer to this would be substantially different if you are asking about the impact of World War II as a whole than if you are asking about the economy during the years 1941 to 1945. In other...
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World War II had a much greater impact on American society than World War I did. One major impact of WWII was the movement of women into the labor force. This happened much more in WWII than in...
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The immediate cause of the outbreak of WWII in Europe in 1939 was the German invasion of Poland. England and France had guaranteed that they would protect Poland’s borders as they were in 1939....
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This can be argued both ways. On the one hand, WWII can be seen as a war against racism and intolerance. This was particularly true of the war in Europe and American propaganda tended to emphasize...
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The invention of tanks made defenisve trench networks in the style of WWI obsolete. It returned mobility to the battlefield and helped to bring about the "blitzkrieg" style of warfare that worked...
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet political leader when he delivered his speech at the Red Army parade. He used rhetorical devices like anaphora, metaphor, allusion, and hypophora to connect with his...
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There are at least three major similarities. First, both wars were caused by the efforts of some countries to change the international order and the efforts of other countries to prevent that. For...
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Australia was geographically close to Japan and its territories. Japan occupied what are today Indonesia and the Philippines. Both are located to the north of Australia. This proximity made...
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Arguably there are no "good wars." But World War II is seen in this light because of the clear menace represented by the Nazis and axis powers. Hitler was genuinely bent on world domination and the...
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The common factor that led to aggression by these three countries was unhappiness with the status quo. All three countries felt that they were being treated badly in the years after World War I...
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"The Good War" is an expression most popularly used in the United States. The term emerged soon after the end of the war and has been the subject of academic and popular debate. Studs Terkel’s...
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The end of WWII shaped the postwar world by laying the foundations for the Cold War. At the end of WWII, the Allies essentially split the world between them. In Asia, the USSR was allowed to keep...