Commanders of World War II

organizations possible because of the increasing interconnectedness of the world (People, Power, and the Common Good, 39). Organizations such as United Nations Security Council (UNSC) strive to maintain international peace and security while in accordance to the principals and purposes of the United Nations (UN Functions). While organizations such as United Nations deal with global well-being, institutions like the World Bank handle other functions mainly financial and technical assistance…

World War Two was the most destructive war of all time. 50 million people died in the few short years that this war took place. Millions of the lives lost where civilians; people who weren’t near battle nor looking for a fight. Around the world millions of Jews, Russians, Chinese and Japanese civilians where negatively effected by the war. Much of the reasoning behind the civilian casualties during World War Two was for the greater good, and nationalism for ones country. Regardless of the…

everything. Not quite coherent and in a daze, but awake enough to know that this was a moment of true tragedy. The bombing of Hiroshima was a gloomy day. It wasn’t just a bomb it was an Atomic Bomb. World War II just entered the sixth year of battle. The United States decided that now was the time to end the war. They bombed Hiroshima, Japan and then invaded the mainland with their allies. The bomb killed between 90,000 – 166,000 people in a course of four months. Over half of those numbers…

for decisively ending World War II. As a society, the United States has readily accepted our devastating World War II actions, but in the modern perspective, any direct attacks on civilians are unethical and objected to. Why is this double standard currently accepted, and what has led to this difference in standards from…

against Germany, while the U.S. elected Roosevelt for a third term. Many were against Roosevelt’s helping Britain by leasing or lending them military equipment. Roosevelt understood that the fall or Britain would bring massive consequences. Now, the war in Europe expanded. Hitler attacked the Soviet Union and was advancing until winter hit. History always finds a way to repeat because once again a foreign army would succumb to defeat by Russian troops and weather. After this surprise attack, the…

difficult decision of his life. He could drop a bomb that would vaporize thousands of lives but would end a war in Japan, or he could continue on and cause more American, Allied, and Japanese military casualties. Truman decided to use the first atomic bombs ever made, codenamed “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”, to obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an attempt to end what was already a brutal and bloody war. While his strategy proved true to work, it would also prove to perhaps the most controversial…

Africa, and set out to colonize it in the hopes of spreading out with the eventual intent of conquering the entire continent. This initial interactions with the African natives set up standards of treatment that would continue to prevail even through World War 2. Looking into some of the early ideas and practices of the first colonizers, readers will gain a better understanding of how certain ideas and stereotypes came about, and how these moved and evolved to effect the women in minority races…

Field of Color “Midterm Analytical Essay” World War II, for most people, conjures up images of Pearl Harbor, Nazis, and Japanese concentration camps comes to mind; but for those minorities who served in the military in any capacity in WWII, either became the new front line for a different type of war, or a savior from another. African-Americans were faced with brutality and social segregation, meanwhile Native-Americans found a military that respected them and revered them as some of the best…

Reflecting on this, we understand that these governments are fairly unstable and cannot keep up with the rapid changes that occur around the world. Going back to what Eric Liu said, power is neither good nor bad, but neutral. With these oppressive regimes, the idea of power begins to receive a negative connotation in which people view power as sinister or evil. Because of this, many people are…

the righteousness of our struggle" –November 1941 Imperial Japanese Navy Rear-Admiral Ito The Japanese during World War Two believed that they were a divine race meant to rule over the rest of the world as shown by the quote from Admiral Ito, stating that Japan believed that there war was a righteous struggle and that the heavens would witness that there war was righteous. During World War Two Japans goal was to conquer all of the pacific because that was there holy mission, the only thing…