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PEARL HARBOR December 7, 1941 was a usual quiet Sunday in Oahu. Little did everyone know by December 8, the United States of America will be engulfed with hatred and patriotism. All for one reason the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attacks on Pearl Harbor had changed the course of the Second World War by launching the United States into the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen. Therefore, fate the Axis Powers were sealed. To better understand the attack on Pearl Harbor, we need to know…

Disney Goes to War It's the year 1944. Imagine sitting in a Navy Vessel, preparing for an invasion of Normandy, with at least 50 men per boat, no less than 10,000 vessels total. There is barely any elbow room, waves crashing against the sides of the boat, tilting it back and forth as feet become soaked from the water on the floor. Nobody is talking. The only sound that is heard is the occasional vomit of a soldier that is seasick and the thundering of the ocean that surrounds the vessel.…

Starting in 1942, many Japanese-Canadians living near the British Columbia coast were relocated, and eventually put into internment camps, as Canadians believed if they were to be attacked by the Japanese, local residents would attempt to aid them. Despite the modern thoughts on the Japanese-Canadian internment, Canadians during World War II, specifically those living in British Columbia, believed that the Japanese deserved to be interned, as the majority of them felt unsafe with their presence.…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt gives a speech about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that had not been prognosticated by anyone. FDR spoke about the ordeal to congress hoping to sway the decision of what steps to take, towards waging war against Japan and their allies in the Axis powers. After introducing his topic, FDR announced that the Japanese Empire had been planning a long time prior to their assault on Pearl Harbor. FDR mentions this because he wants to point the fact that all of the…

During the 1850’s the pacific world began to feel immense pressure from the west, as they began to surpass them through the construction of war ships and other resources. In a desperate attempt to preserve their cultural values and pride, four patriotic men decided to voice their opinions on how to better their home country. Tokugawa Nariaki and Ii Naosuke were advocates for Japan, while Feng Guifen and Woren were citizens of China. Although each one made excellent points on ways to benefit the…

“Narrative of my captivity in Japan” by Vasilii Golovnin, is a story with a unique perspective and travel experience in Japan. As the story starts us off with travelers coming under arrest after being suspect in their motive for coming to Japan, Golovnin and his companions are held captive in Japan for a little over two years, until they can be proven innocent of the allegations. This travel experience, give the reader perspective Japanese prisons, government, and foreign diplomacy, rather than…

Conner Yoshimoto Mrs. Marino 21 September 2015 Short Story It started one morning in February, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. It stated that all Japanese Americans are sent to internment camps in the United States. A news anchor reported this too. Little did I know that this moment changed my life forever. One morning I awoke to raised voices. I could recognize my mom’s voice, but the other was foreign. As I walked downstairs I saw what must be an official with…

the speech one could find a speech like this at a time of war is too long. But quite the opposite was Churchill’s thinking when writing the speech. Winston Churchill made the speech as long as it is so he would deliver a message behind it. Churchill’s intentions from writing such a big piece of writing was to tell the House of Commons that the issue they have in front of them is a huge issue. Churchill was deliberately making the speech too long to deliver a message to the House of Commons that…

Japan was governed by the Toku-gawa Shogunate, instead of the emperor who was just a figure head. The Toku-gawa Shogunate was a secular government under a shogun (Bulliet, 728). There were also daimyos, who were given control of specific areas with little intervention of the Shogunate. There were many weaknesses in early Japan history. The biggest weakness came when they were threatened from the outside (Bulliet, 728). The main reason behind this was the necessary resources required to prevent…

A concentration camp is a place where ¨prisoners” are held mainly to work or be executed. The Japanese and the United States had different ideas of concentration camps. They definitely had more differences than similarities. The United States used internment camps instead of the concentration camps used by the Nazis in Germany. The internment camp I'll be talking about is called Camp Harmony and the Japanese concentration camp I will be talking about is all their camps in general. The United…