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    talk about but can't be allowed to forget. In 1937 , Nanking, China, 300000 Chinese be killed by the Japanese army. This event be called Nanking Massacre. I don't know how many foreigners have read this part of the Chinese history before. But each Chinese won't forget what happened in 1937s. The massacre lasted six weeks. Japanese killed thirty-thousand Chinese in six weeks. How we remember this part history so clearly? Because if you go to Nanking, everywhere you can see "VICTIMS 300000" and at…

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    Political - Europe had political involvement largely with China, Latin America, and Africa, not so much with the Middle East. Within China was the Opium Wars over that also had largely to do with trade. Eventually, these wars resulted in the Treaty of Nanking that ended the war and gave Great Britain the colony of Hong Kong and increased sphere of influence. Involvement in Latin America was in regards to the vast amount of colonies had in Latin America, although many of the colonies did achieve…

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    everyone forgotten every single war crime the Japanese has done? The atom bombs have a combined casualty rate of 200,000. The endeavours of the Japanese army in Nanking, a single city, was 300,000 alone. Unlike the atom bombs that evaporated everything in it’s path resulting in an instant death, the massacre of Nanking, also known as the rape of Nanking involved being buried alive, decapitation by katana, which was also turned into a famous game where the aim was to get the most heads of the…

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    capital city, Nanking, and murdered 300,00 out of 60,000 civilians and soldiers (HistoryPlace.com). The six weeks of holocaust is known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese were nationalist and they believed their country was the best. The military invasion of Nanking began in the summer of 1937. The resistance of the Chinese made the Japanese outraged. After some time passed by, the Japanese defeated China at Shanghai in November. After days of fighting, Japanese troops invaded Nanking with an…

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    was a result of political innovations including Benito Mussolini’s Fascism, Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist German Worker’s (Nazi) Party and the resulting spawn of totalitarianism. Its predecessor events include the Bombing of Guernica, Rape of Nanking, appeasement of Hitler (Failure of the Munich Conference), and Germany’s emerging dominance. World War II was the most widespread war in history, affecting over one hundred million people, spanning over 30 countries (WC1). Its dominance forced…

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    note that stressed how “historical facts” are unclear and continue to be debated today. The inference above is supported by contextual knowledge, which reveals the pervasive historical revisionism in Japanese textbooks. While “some killing” in the Nanking incident came to be recognized in textbooks,…

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    They protested the change and pushed for their country’s well-being. Japan, however, did not stop their torment and so all major ports and capital cities such as Nanking and Shanghai were taken over. The riots became brutal fights and soon the cities were burial sites. Nanking became known for the Rape of Nanking. This was a major atrocity that granted worldwide interest and hatred for the Japanese having around three hundred thousand civilian deaths and an estimated eighty thousand women…

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    Respectively on August 6th and 9th, 1945, the massive nuclear atomic bomb under the command of president Harry S. Truman, hit Hiroshima, a Japanese location of military installment and Nagasaki, which was place with major seaports and industrial plants. This day was marked not only into history, but literally into the beings of the Japanese people. There are countless interpretations that are brought up about the occurred bombings, some being positive and some being negative. President Truman’s…

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    Genocide is developed through eight different stages that lead to the planned killing of thousands of people. The first stage of genocide is classification. This is the stage where a target group of people are placed into categories and given a title (Rummel). The second stage in genocide is symbolization. During symbolization the target group is now given a name or other insignia to label and show who they are (Rummel). Dehumanization is the third stage of genocide. This occurs when the…

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    Totalitarian Japan During 1867,Mutsuhito Kyōto raised to power and established the meiji empire which later become the greatest time period in Japanese history.The empire not only followed European’s “footstep” of being industrialized,it also received the ambition,greeds from its “European parents”.Japan later on invaded Korea,China due to its resource difficulties but Japan didn’t stop there, in order to control the people inside its large territory Hideki Tojyo,which was the prime minister…

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