Empire of Japan

the U.S. was already able to break the Japanese diplomatic code, they got news that Japan was going to attack, the only problem was that the message sent to Washington D.C. got there too late. The second warning sing was a sing before the attack, a radar picked up Japanese planes, but the people who picked up the signal thought that the plane on the radar was American B-17s due from the West Coast (Why Did Japan Attack?) Due to the terrible handling of warning sings, Pearl Harbor gets attacked…

echelons of the Japanese government setting aside their pride and coming to their senses. In a world where this occurred, they would have seen the blatant truth that Japan was absolutely no match for the United States military and economic power. In the event of Japan…

ESSAY 1: Naval technology has evolved at a rapid pace. In this essay we will compare the difference in tactics and technology utilized by navies in history. To effectively determine the changes we will be evaluating two of the most famous and important battles in history. The battle of Trafalgar (1805) and the Battle of Midway (1942). Both of these battles are of significant importance to their respective navies histories are also characterised as events which changed the course of a war. The…

World War II was a global war, a very significant point in history, which changed the world today. The war went from September 1st, 1939 to September 2nd, 1945 (HistoryNet, 2015). One major event during the war was the surprise bombing of the American Naval Base, located in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. It was bombed on the 7th of December, 1941 and lasted for around 2 hours. Conducted by the Japanese during WWII, the attack on Pearl Harbour led to severe and influential outcomes which altered the…

The battle at Midway island, approximately half the distance between Asia and the United States, in June of 1942 was one of the most significant battles that the American military would fight during the course of World War II, and author Craig Symonds reports the details in his book, The Battle at Midway. Despite many accounts of this battle, Symonds offers a unique and incredibly researched narrative that brings his work into its own interpretation, separate from others. Symonds description of…

war effort. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. declared war on Japan. From that point on, Americans were suspicious of Japanese Americans and began to question their loyalty to America. They eventually discriminate against Japanese Americans because the Japanese heritage link to Japan. As a result, Japanese American were forced to relocated and incarcerated in camps because they were thought of as spies for Japan. This was Kay’s brother respond to the…

World War II was a difficult time period due to the internment of the Japanese-Americans. Because it was during World War II, the Japanese decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt feared that the Japanese-Americans were working as spies for the Japanese which is why he forced them into internment camps. The imprisonment of the Japanese-Americans was greatly affected by racism. All of the Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps soon after the bombing…

In the United States, people are given many liberties, rights, and freedoms. Since the country’s founding, it’s been a democratic government; valuing the voices and rights of its citizens. However, during times of national crisis, United States presidents have made controversial decisions affecting civil liberties. Many of these decisions, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s order to relocate Japanese Americans, and George W. Bush’s signing of the USA Patriot, are still heavily debated over…

When Darwin was bombed in 1942 it set off a chain of events that shaped the 20th century in many ways* . These bombings caused Australians to become further paranoid about an invasion and also made them become distrusting of their own government due to its cover-up of the extent of the incident. Japan's reign of destruction also drove Australians to demand a to become a considerably larger part of the war effort. Despite the fact that the bombings were such an insignificant part of WWII they do…

"As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color." —Fred Korematsu (1983) What Bitter disappointment know the country you were born in condemn you to a hostile exile, just by the appearance of your skin. Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) is the…