Nanking

Speaking from a personal perspective, being plagued with the wrong identity labels could lead me to commit acts of evil. Both the SPE and group identity formed in terrorism shows the effects of how having certain associations could mislead me to commit acts I would not have committed otherwise. Because of possible horrors that could result from flawed personal identification, it is essential that I remain conscious of what my identifications are. Furthermore, it is crucial that my beliefs…

American interests in China. President Roosevelt gave the Quarantine Speech in 1937 to express his views about the actions of these totalitarian nations and how they needed to be controlled to prevent the spread of disease. The Japanese attacked Nanking in December of 1937 and they brutally murdered Chinese citizens. As described in Document F, the murder of citizens was widespread and systematic. Japan’s imperial power was noticed by this brutal attack. This forceful attack came only weeks…

of the 1930’s, Japan’s increasingly expansionist policies brought renewed conflict. The Japanese expansion into China was condemned by the United States as it was a direct infliction of American interests. Japanese atrocities, including the Rape of Nanking, served further to complicate Japanese relations with it’s Western counter-parts. The Roosevelt administration regarded a Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, especially the oil-rich Dutch East Indies and tin and rubber-rich British Malaya, as…

Colonialism was a policy of creation and maintenance of a form of colonial people in a territory to other territory. The history of colonialism is a major content in the evolutionary history of humankind. Colonialism is often used to refer to a period of history from the 15th century until the 19th century when Europeans built their colonies. One of the continents that got affected by the colonialism was Asia. Three representatives for this continent that went through colonial experience were…

War is an underlying event that happens throughout history for various reasons. Whether it be an assassination, a rise of a revolution within a country, a meager argument between two settings, or a simple secluded alliance that can deceive the other at any chance, a war is bound to happen. Let’s begin with the definition of a world war. This type of specific kind of warfare occurs when major first world countries go into battle because of a formidable change that occurs or a threat of…

There’s an old Jewish saying that says “Two Jews, Three opinions”. The same can be said about political scientists. When it comes to complex topics such as the causes of civil wars, many in the field of political science have differing opinions on how they start and how to classify them. Many of the written material read for class, such as Jesse and Williams’ “Ethnic Conflict”, stride more towards a constructivist side of civil war, reinforce more of a primordialist view on Civil Wars. Some…

Before its entry to World War II, America’s president Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced the issue of whether to stay neutral, or allow United States to intervene and take action in Europe. There was pressure coming from both those for and against intervention throughout the United States to remain neutral or take action respectively. Eventually the United States found itself in the midst of the war for a number of reasons. The chief of these reasons being firstly that President Roosevelt was…

In 1912, the Qing `Dynasty ended and there was a power vacuum in China. The Nationalist Party became the leading power, but by 1917, communism was on the rise and the Communist Party of China became a prominent influence on politics in China (“The Qing Dynasty”, Wu). Instead of debating with governmental discussions, the military eventually entered into the conflict. The Kuomintang leaders Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek fought for a democratic Republic of China. Mao Zedong, head of the…

Other Cultures in a Few Short Pages In Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days, there are many different cultures which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout explore through-out the entirety of the novel. All of these cultures are set in the late 19th century throughout the world. Some of these cultures include the Indian culture, Chinese culture and Native American culture among the many others that the two are exposed to. All of these cultures will be explored in a comparison of the novel to…

In Chapters 15 through 17 we learn more about how the countries of Europe modernize and sometimes do not modernize. However, no matter what country you look at in Europe at this time everyone has discontents with their country. This is the beginning of the ideas of revolution and rebelling against one 's country to take control over what the people want them to be and not what their leaders and monarchs want them to be. In Prussia, we were beginning to see how uneducated our people were. We…