Empire of Japan

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…

December, 7th 1941, Japan bombed the Hawaiian Islands and took out most of our naval units in the Pacific Ocean. The United States fought back against Japan before, during, and after Pearl Harbor. The American Armed Services entered into the war by force, strike back fiercely, and ultimately took out Japan after the bombing, of Pearl Harbor. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor is why the U.S. became involved in World War II. There are several reasons why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Japan was invading…

STAFF SERGEANT VICTOR V. CERVANTEZ MORENCI Army Air Corps Entered Service in December 1941 Gunner on B-24 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group European Theater, 8th Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 3 OLC Victor was 18 years old when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 1, 1941. Just six days later, the US entered the Second World War when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. During the great mobilization period of 1942 and 1943, Victor was stationed for…

How has immigration policy reproduced ideas about gender, race and class? 1917: the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The 1917 Act implemented a literacy test and increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival and allowed immigration officials to exercise more discretion in making decisions over whom to exclude. The Act excluded from entry anyone born in a geographically defined “Asiatic Barred Zone,” people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis…

Should National security override a person's right to liberty? In my opinion I think honestly it should because of many reasons and conflicts that we have had in the past. The National security jus wants to help keep the people protected and make sure they are well taken care of. If it wasn’t for this we would have had many more wars and more conflicts associated with the Japanese people. Everyone has equal rights so why should the Japanese be free for their wrongdoings. The Executive Order…

really amazed you with our first set of 16 odd things that you didn’t know about Japan, and now we have finally returned with part three! There is so much more to learn about this astounding and unique country, and our list offers the best of the best facts that you never knew! Don’t forget to check back for our coming articles, parts four through six, to see the remaining 27 odd things that you didn’t know about Japan! Number Thirty-Five: Cruel Masterminds In the face of war, each country is…

Iwo Jima is an island in the Pacific, approximately 650 miles from Tokyo that really did not have significant amount of natural resources. It was a rocky island with a volcano; however, it did serve as a vital platform for the Japanese fighters to launch attacks against American bombers. The island also held tactical importance to American forces. The island would serve as a landing strip for fighter escorts and as an airstrip used to repair damaged aircraft. The Marines conducted an…

If the United States was warned of the attack and had a very good army, why did they lose against Japan? Pearl Harbor was one of the biggest military bases of the United States, and it was destroyed by a beautifully planned and executed military maneuver, in the words of the Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. The Japanese army wasn´t as organized as the American one, it didn’t have the same weaponry that the one in Pearl Harbor, but they made it to beat the United States, which…