Toward the end of the attack at Pearl Harbor, Admiral IsorokuYamamoto, on the Combined Fleet flagship, rose to his feet and said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Ironically, at the dawn of the World War II, of September 1, 1939, only a little more than two years prior, the United States did not have the security or the military alliances to engage in this full scale global struggle, World War II. Indeed, the predominant political ideology was that of isolationism, especially after the multiple catacylsms of the “Great War,” like those buried under the black pines of “no man’s land.” As the U.S. celebrated the victory of World War I, the nation soon encountered another enemy,
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They also became aware of their own vulnerability, which supported the belief, so popular after Pearl Harbor, that if we don’t fight them there, we’ll have to fight them in San Francisco.” Nonetheless, with the devastation at Pearl Harbor, Americans came to realize that the convenience that poised the U.S. with its geography of remoteness, had proven to be a bygone ideology. Remarkably, during the dusk of “VJ” day, America was more powerful than ever, “the Pacific and Mediterranean had become American lakes.” Indeed, my question is what were the explicits that fabricated Americans to shift from isolationism to gradual internationalism to rapid militarism. Was it American popular culture, advocated by the calamity of over 2,500 American lives at Pearl Harbor, supplemented by nationalism? Was it the diplomacy embedded in our growing bureaucracy? Was it foreign factors, like British propaganda? Are there factors that precede the outbreak of this “World in Flames?” My proposal revolves around whom and what were the predominant dominions that altered the ideology of Americans into WWII, which, in turn, developed its most explosive militarism, it had ever
They also became aware of their own vulnerability, which supported the belief, so popular after Pearl Harbor, that if we don’t fight them there, we’ll have to fight them in San Francisco.” Nonetheless, with the devastation at Pearl Harbor, Americans came to realize that the convenience that poised the U.S. with its geography of remoteness, had proven to be a bygone ideology. Remarkably, during the dusk of “VJ” day, America was more powerful than ever, “the Pacific and Mediterranean had become American lakes.” Indeed, my question is what were the explicits that fabricated Americans to shift from isolationism to gradual internationalism to rapid militarism. Was it American popular culture, advocated by the calamity of over 2,500 American lives at Pearl Harbor, supplemented by nationalism? Was it the diplomacy embedded in our growing bureaucracy? Was it foreign factors, like British propaganda? Are there factors that precede the outbreak of this “World in Flames?” My proposal revolves around whom and what were the predominant dominions that altered the ideology of Americans into WWII, which, in turn, developed its most explosive militarism, it had ever