Hirohito

My grandfather served in the United States Navy in World War II where our ships encountered what was to them a new style of fighter: the Kamikaze pilot. The Kamikaze pilot was an individual who would quite literally drive a Mitsubishi Zero plane that was unequipped with guns and flew their planes directly into American ships to keep them away from reaching Japan. The word Kamikaze has an ancient origin. Literally translated it means “divine wind.” Kamikaze was used for close to a thousand years…

Dresden From February thirteenth to the fifteenth nineteen forty five roughly 35,000-135,000 people died in the bombings of Dresden. The bombings killed more than the atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but were not as devastating as them combined. Looking back seventy years the main question people ask about the bombings is: was it overkill? The answer is yes. The nearest battle field was eighty miles from Dresden. During this time Dresden was a civilian city whose only war effort was…

America’s involvement in World War II exposed the decline of the Imperial Japanese Army’s aggression and morale between 1941-1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president of the United States in 1941 gave his Infamy Speech on December 8, 1941. The speech was his response to the American people regarding the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Just hours after his Infamy Speech, the United States declared war on Japan. This attack struck America in the heart and made Americans…

atomic bomb.”- J Robert Oppenheimer. In August of 1945, President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb over the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. This decision was made because the Emperors of Japan, Hirohito refused to surrender amidst the growing fear of a full on invasion. The decision was made to make the Empire Of Japan surrender and to end the Second World War. This was the first ever time in the…

accused Roosevelt of intending to seek a fourth term of presidency. The United States in the film was portrayed as a country with the great ideals of “Moses, Mahomet, Confucius and Jesus.” The dark “other world” was portrayed as run by gangsters. Hirohito, Hitler and Mussolini were to blame for the war. The film narrator says, “Remember these three faces… If you meet them… don’t hesitate”. The war was represented as the battle of values with the forces of…

The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, is widely considered to begin with the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937 and end with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. I would argue that to understand the motives as to why Japan invaded China, it is essential to grasp their previous history of conflicts and tensions, beginning with the Japanese claim of Taiwan from China’s Qing Dynasty after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895, right through to the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. This…

participated in mass murders of entire units and many villages. Historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta wrote of a policy named Sankō Sakusen, meaning ‘Three All’s Policy’. This included the three components of “Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All” sanctioned by Hirohito. They would essentially massacre, rape the captured soldiers or villagers then burn any buildings and take any belongings of value. Examples of this include the Alexandra Hospital massacre in Singapore and the Bataan Death March. The Japanese…

The October 30, 1944 cover of TIME magazine depicts a photograph of a stern faced man against a background that includes a closed fist punching an image of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; the caption reads “I Shall Return.” The man is General Douglas MacArthur, who embodies the pure, rugged masculinity that America holds in such high esteem. He’s often quoted for saying, “Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.” The United States has elevated that value of…

How the Russian Revolution caused the USA Patriot Act of 2001 The Russian Revolution was the effect of a civil uprising, and caused many events in the early 20th including the PATRIOT ACT of 2001. This 342-page piece of legislation was responsible for more than 150 amendments and 15 federal laws. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, the full name of the USA Patriot Act, primarily deals with combating the…

Dwight Eisenhower b. Herbert Hoover c. Franklin D. Roosevelt d. Harry Truman _____343) Laissez-faire policies of the U. S. government helped bring about the depression by a. Overextending trade agreements. b. Giving businesses too many loans. c. Encouraging people to invest in the stock market. d. Not doing anything to help solve the country’s economic problems. _____344) Georgians did not feel the impact of the stock market crash because a. the state was already in a depression.…