Manchuria

meeting, President Roosevelt was looking for help from the Soviet leader Stalin to make a stand against Japan and to do this they needed a stronger military. To get help from Stalin we had to agree to give them control of Sakhalian, Kurile Island and Manchuria so they have railway privileges. For America to create the United Nation was main object during the Yalta meeting. The president want to have all three powers working together before any large issues of the postwar could separate them. …

Each individual dynasty has their own unique traits, but it is possible to relate the course of a dynasty’s life to a specific pattern. At its peak, the Former Han dynasty took up most of the Southern and Western parts of China. During this time, the dynasty was located just East of Lo-lang right along the Gobi desert to the just west of Kashia, and then the territory looped back around right west of Lanzhou, and then down merely south of Hanoi. The former Han dynasty existed from 206 B.C.E, to…

The Life and Legacy of Genghis Khan Every civilization that had been found and developed, soon after they rose, would fall. But then a new one would rise not too far from there or become a whole new one out of the old rubble. Usually this was due to new settlers, an economic rise, or influences from other civilizations. Each civilization had a powerful figure, such as Alexander the Great from Macedonia or Julius Caesar in Rome. In the eastern parts of Asia, there are generals such as Cao Cao…

The War of the Japanese The day was December 7, 1941. Unlit Christmas lights are strung on green palm trees and the day is just beginning for the navy base in Pearl Harbor. But then time took over. At 7:55 AM, Japanese fighter planes carrying deadly bombs flew in, ready to destroy the American naval base. In as little as two hours, there were four battleships destroyed and four more damaged. Dozens of more heroic war stories were born. And America had entered the second war of the world. THE…

At the time of World War I, the world had expected it to be the “war to end all wars”. Unfortunately, all it would accomplish would be setting the stage for World War II to take place just a couple decades later. The war was seen as unnecessary, with world leaders having many opportunities to not go to war, and yet becoming one of the world’s most devastating and bloody wars that it had ever seen. It became the catalyst for the social and economic conditions that would create more animosity…

Germany was not the only country determined to expand their borders. Japan began expanding in 1931 with their successful invasion of Manchuria, before a violent attack towards China in 1937. (Holocaust Encyclopedia 2016) Japan’s biggest victory in World War Two was the attack on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, which occurred on the 7th of December 1941. Japan caused serious damage to the American…

The spring of 1945 saw the end of the Second World War in the European theatre. Adolf Hitler's suicide on the 30th of April lead to the surrender of Nazi Germany on the 7th of May, and the final dissolution of the Third Reich came on the 23rd day of May. As glorious a victory as it was for the Allied Forces in the west, this did not mean the end of the war, as the fighting in the Pacific theatre against the Japanese Empire was as intense as ever. The plan developed by the Allies to bring an end…

At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6th, 1945 the Enola Gay lifted off the runway headed for Japan, their mission, cripple a nation through the use of an atomic warhead. President Truman, torn between moral conflict and the preservation of American lives was obligated to make the toughest decision of his life, drop the bombs and save American lives, or send them in. Since the cost and expected casualties from an invasion, Truman’s issues with accepting Soviet help during the Potsdam Conference, and…

“When the war began, the United States had entered a period of isolationism. Americans viewed the conflict as Europe’s problems and wished to keep it that way” (“Reasons for American Entry into World War II” 1). America could have avoided the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Holocaust could have been stopped earlier and the death count would have been less. Europe would not have fallen to Hitler’s Power, and the war would of ended much sooner than 1945. Before America could join the war, President…

World War II was a horrible time in history, possibly the worst time for the world in easily recollected memory. The whole world was involved, with people from every country and of every nationality dying. While Germany can be pegged as the main cause and starter of this horrible past, certain things helped fuel the cause of the second World War, such as the Treaty of Versailles, Appeasement and the failure of The League of Nations. The treaty of Versailles was at fault for it’s humiliation…