Hirohito

background information for a reader that doesn’t know too much about that kind of stuff. Oakley covers other forms of kingship, examples being ascendancy, papacy and papal. Another example of god like kings that Oakley names is the Japanese emperor Hirohito who was enthroned in the early…

The Manhattan Project: the nuclear race that changed the world The Manhattan Project was a research project that began in 1942 with the goal of building the world’s first atomic bomb. The project pushed limits and ethics on an international scale in a race to develop a nuclear war weapon, a new concept of the time. With world war two dawning on America and the intelligence that the Nazis were attempting to build a bomb, the United States took action by beginning the project. Competition between…

As the second World War was drawing to a close in the Pacific theater, the United States ultimately decided to use its new weapon that they have been developing in the top-secret Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, on Japan on August 6th, 1945. The United States, including Truman and top military officials such as Secretary of War Stimson, opted to use the weapon for a variety of reasons including drawing the war to a quick end. While the U.S. ultimately used nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and…

The Effect of Repeating the Phrase “Last Night…” On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 8:00 in the morning, the Japanese Empire, preceded by Emperor Hirohito, makes a surprise attack at the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Such an attack had been planned previously, and the surprise factor would be the one that would give the Japanese empire the victory over the United States. One of the most famous speeches in the history of speakers in the United States is the speech given by President Franklin…

Today, the two world wars the planet Earth has seen are distant memories, with very few of the people who fought in it surviving today. These two wars were linked together in more ways than one and the effects have been important for a long time. So without further ado, allow their causes and their effects through the years to be revealed. WW1 was caused by a power grab by the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary on October 6, 1908, in which they announced the annexation of the neighboring…

World War II lasted six years and a day, starting on September 1st, 1939 and ending on September 2nd, 1945. Towards the end of the war, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on two cities in Japan. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary in winning World War II. These bombing prevented further bloodshed since the Japanese would not have surrendered otherwise. Another reason these bombings were necessary was because it quickly ended World War II. Because of these situations,…

– Two decades after the first world war, politically unstable Germany allowed the rise to power of a man that will forever be infamous. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) took control of Germany. They rearmed the nation and signed treaties with Italy and Japan, He was going along with his desire of world authority. Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939 which force Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. This was the start of WWII. Over 45…

Six months of intense strategic bombing on 37 Japanese cities did little to break the Hirohito regime, Japan still refused to surrender. So America felt like they had no choice but to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan to force them to surrender and finally end the war. An alternative to this decision was an Allied invasion to Japan, which would…

Born on June 25, 1892, General Shiro Ishii of central Japan, along with a flux of doctors and scientists from across the country, became responsible for the mutilation of at least 3,000 citizens of surrounding Asian countries during the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II by manufacturing a system of human experimentation performed in a remote location infamously known as Unit 731 (Byrd, 2005) (Mitchell, 2013). Known to the public as the “Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification…

clear through how the emperor was only willing to surrender after the dropping of the bombs that he didn’t care as much about his people. Tokyo and other Japanese cities had been under continual firebombing and the emperor had kept pushing. If Hirohito was concerned about his people, he would have surrendered long before the Japanese people were in such dire circumstances. It would seem…