Participants in World War II

ARE HUMANS INNATELY AGGRESSIVE OR IS IT A LEARNED BEHAVIOUR? The interplay of Nature and Nurture After having heard of extreme forms of aggression as the World War II, you’d like to believe that aggressive behavior and violence would not have prevailed. But as noted, the homicide rates have in fact increased in the United States, particularly. Social psychologists have ever since been doing research over the years to find the source of aggression observed in human behavior and how can it be…

Tripartite Pact, becoming an official member of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis - or the Axis Alliance. The Axis of Germany, Italy, and Japan became key participants in World War II (“Axis Alliance in World War II”). While a war was fought in the Pacific and Europe, various things were unfolding in the homelands of the many countries involved in the war. When the war began in September, 1939, Japan, an empire that had already conquered Manchuria in 1937 and turned it into the puppet state of…

The government found it necessary to ration food, gas, and even clothing during that time. Americans were asked to conserve on everything. With not a single person unaffected by the war, rationing meant sacrifices for all. In the spring of 1942, the Food Rationing Program was set into motion. Rationing would deeply affect the American way of life for most. The federal government needed to control supply and demand. Rationing was introduced to avoid public anger with shortages and not to allow…

conjunction with other nations. Sometimes, the interest sought is global security or domination. A good example is during the post World War II when the western and eastern blocks sought to grow capitalism and communism respectively engaging in war sometimes to make this happen as some argued the threat that either economic system posed to development. The US engaged in the Vietnam War which was a clash between communist (the USSR and China) and anti-communist (the US and Philippines) for…

the outcome of how penicillin cured Hitler’s infection, he decided that penicillin was needed to help their military needs for the war. Movell went to the large companies and tried to convince them to produce large amounts of penicillin (“Hitler’s Penicillin”). The large companies for the Axis powers believed that the use of sulfonamides were more effective to win the war. Unfortunately, even though the companies agreed to produce the penicillin, they were not able to keep up with the Allies’…

World War II is frequently labeled the ‘Good War,’ as it is characterized as one of the few wars in history that is justified by a majority of the world. Throughout the entirety of the war, the Allied forces worked to defeat the nefarious Axis powers. Paul Fussell’s book The Boys’ Crusades exhibits the truth about World War II, and it shows the harsh reality of combat. Young servicemen in America risked their lives in battle, and while they are respected for their work, few people understand the…

shaken up from World War II and many countries, especially Germany, were hit hard. Even though the Soviets believed that they had control over the destiny of West Berlin, the Berlin Airlift was an example of the determination of western nations to not give in to the threats of communism and oppression. Many lives were saved through this act of heroism. The Berlin Airlift is a time in history that will always ring in the hearts of those that bore witness to it. The end of World War II led to the…

authorized to collect secret intelligence (Petras). The National Security Council soon expanded the role of the C.I.A. to include, among other things, propaganda and “support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world” (Gaddis 162-163). Their activities were to be directed so “that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them” (Gaddis 163). The Congress for Cultural Freedom was an anti-communist group (Joffe). It was…

The Fault in Our Wars On August 6th, 1945, 70,000 Japanese citizens met their fatal end when the United States of America dropped the deadliest, lethal weapon ever known to man. The day that President Harry Truman made the most difficult decision, not only as President of the United States, but of his entire life, he impacted the fate of the world, even to this current day. To use or not to use the atomic bomb during the cold days of war was the landmark question that faced President Truman.…

Roosevelt issued an "Executive Order 9182 Establishing the Office of War Information.” In the document, he created “The Office of War Information” to “Formulate and carry out, through the use of press, radio, motion picture, and other facilities, information programs designed to facilitate the development of an informed and intelligent understanding, at home and abroad, of the status and progress of the war effort and of the war policies, activities, and aims of the Government.” Roosevelt gave…