Commanders of World War II

On August 6 1945, the world had seen the first use of one of if not the deadliest weapon off all-time; The United States of America had dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both cities were completely and utterly decimated and the death toll is around two hundred thousand and fifty people. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 by the Americans still lies a very controversial issue with no definite answer. Both sides of the…

The U.S. committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I 'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated (George Wald, BrainyQuote). The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials to punish the Nazis and other people involved in the Holocaust accused of horrible crimes during World War II. The crimes against humanity and war were common crimes to be convicted for at the time.…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…

The poor manner by which the various countries became liberated was at the fault of the Colonial States. Their primary concern was either the social and economic stability of their domestic state after the war or attempting to maintain their empire/colonial status. (Split this into two sentences. Tell which countries wanted social and economic stability in the first sentence, and which ones wanted to maintain colonial status in the next) However, each imperialist nation acted in its own best…

The bombing of Dresden, Germany occurred during the Second World War between the 13th and 15th of February, 1949. The attack was done by Britain and the United States through the use of an aerial bombing. Within the four raids that the allies carried out, 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city by heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force. Dresden, Germany was the country’s seventh-largest city and the largest of the…

CNN host, Fareed Zakaria, suggested that, “During the Cold War, we [Americans] were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war.” The Cold War refers to the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1991. The two sides never confronted each other within battle. Americans, however, still lived in constant fear of communism and a war with Russia. A technique I learned earlier within this class was that our…

battleships and more than 100 planes. Though it would be some time before people learned the full scope of the damage, within days a once-distant war in Europe and the Pacific became a central part of life in the United States, affecting politics, business, media, and entertainment. In his new book, December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World, Craig Shirley offers a day-by-day chronicle of the full month and recounts Pearl Harbor's political, economic, and cultural…

During World War II, Japan attacked many places in the Pacific Ocean. Japan attacked: Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, The Philippine Islands, Wake Island, Hawaii, and Midway Island in less than three days. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, an American Naval Base in Hawaii, it was a bigger massacre than expected and many Americans perished. Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his speech known as “The Infamy Speech” one day after Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese forces during World War II. Until this…

remember such a ship that set sail to complete its first and only mission. The crew of eighty-three men along with Commander Lloyd M. “Pete” Bucher would be tortured by Korean forces for eleven months before being…

who grew up during the time of the Word Wars, argues in his book, The Origins of the Second World War, that the outbreak of World War II was not the result of an international plan developed by Hitler. In his preface he explains how most historians focus on Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 as the origin of the war. However, Taylor argues that although Hitler wished to make Germany the strongest power in Europe, he did not want or plan a world war (Taylor, 25). He characterizes…