“A new and more cruel bomb” said Emperor Hirohito in a radio address announcing that his country is going to surrender on August 15. That was one quote from Emperor Hirohito, the emperor of Japan. A lot of people ask questions about the war, and these are some of my questions. Here are some questions I want to ask like what are the materials needed to make an atom bomb, are the materials to make an atom bomb radioactive, Why was Hiroshima “targeted” not Tokyo, or How many U.S. Americans died…
Nick Ut Huynh Cong Ut also known as Nick Ut was born on March 29th, 1951 in Vietnam. He is best known for his style of photojournalism when he was working for Associated Press (AP), this is a multinational news agency. He started working at AP in 1965 when he was just fourteen years old, just a few weeks after this his brother who was also working for the agency was killed photographing the war in Vietnam. Ut was shot 3 times when he was documenting the conflict in Vietnam, in the arm, leg and…
During the War In Afghanistan, the leading cause of american deaths was IEDs also \\\\\\known as Improvised Explosive Devices or land mines. In the Afghanistan War, IEDs accounted for 1403 deaths, which makes up for about half the deaths during the war. There is no denying the fact that 1403 deaths is not a lot. Improvised Explosive Devices are a huge problem in not only Afghanistan but the whole Middle East. How are the IEDs being created? What measures are being taken to prevent IED deaths in…
Information is crucial in times of war, if one side knows where the other is about to move troops they can take action and lead an attack on them, gaining the upper hand. With the advancement of military strategy and weaponry careful planning and secrecy have become a major part of war. In an effort to prevent the Japanese Military from knowing its success with Fu-Go weapons, balloons carrying bombs across the Pacific that fell onto United States soil and in one case blew up and instantly killed…
Pearl Harbor is a harbour located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Today It is a United States Navy deep-water naval base, and also the headquarters of the United States Pacific fleet. Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7 December 1941, by Japanese fighter planes. This was a huge surprise. Japan is 4,000 miles away from Hawaii , so the Americans thought that Japan were going to attack a European colonie. But instead, their goal was to take down the the Pacific Fleet so the Americans would not be able to…
“ With an unshakable faith we will have victory and satisfaction .”General Dwight D. Eisenhower. This World War 2 Bibliography will consensus of multiple weapons and technologies of how we won the War and how it came into effect during the war. We will be talking about everything from just a handheld gun to one of the famous tanks of world war two. How they all played a role into helping us in the war or making it difficult for us to advance. According to the (The National Interest) one of the…
Davids American Turtle is about submarine wafare it is primarly about the Americna Turtle.Which was introduced into The Revolutionary War.The Advantages it had were to infiltrate into enemy territory ,mostly undetected it was a one man seater and can hold up to 30 minutes of oxygen and was fitted with a drill hole to drill the inside of the wood from the ships.Some of the disadvantges were that it was slow and heavy and was rearly used during the Revolutionary war.This was one of the first…
assume that their decisions are infallibly correct. Because of this assumption, group members are pressured to accept and support the groups decisions, rejecting any contradictory information. In addition to the effects of strong cohesiveness, the groupthink mindset develops due to what are known as emergent group norms, or norms which indicate that the possibility of error does not exist within the group, and therefore further analysis and discussion of the subject at hand is unnecessary. One…
Harry Mazer's A Boy at War, published in 2001, recounts the experiences of fourteen-year-old Adam Pelko. Adam is a young man from a military family who lives in Hawaii in the days leading up to and during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is just a matter of chance that Adam and two friends are fishing in a rowboat on the harbor on that fateful morning when the attack occurs. At first, the boys assume that they have been caught in a drill, but quickly realize that the planes and bombs are…
Between 1945 and 1948 war crimes trials were taking place in Japan and began hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the…