The Rape of Nanking

Holocaust War Crimes World War II was deadliest war in history. The war involved over thirty countries and the deaths of over fifty million military and civilian lives was recorded. The second World War started September 1,1939 when Germany invaded Poland, causing France and Britain to declare war on Germany a couple of days later. April 9,1940 Germany invaded Norway, May 10th they took over Belgium and then the Netherlands, and then they hit French forces at Sedan. Benito Mussolini, Italian…

The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, is widely considered to begin with the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937 and end with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. I would argue that to understand the motives as to why Japan invaded China, it is essential to grasp their previous history of conflicts and tensions, beginning with the Japanese claim of Taiwan from China’s Qing Dynasty after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895, right through to the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. This…

He argues that in situations such as Adolph Eichmann, who was complicit in the Holocaust; Hideko Tojo, who was in part responsible for Pearl Harbor, the rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, and the bacteriological experiments on U.S. prisoners of war, the death penalty is necessary due to the immorality and inhumanity of the actions these men were responsible for. These actions, for most moral, able-minded…

Following the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, the world turned its eyes towards this rising new global power in Asia. By defeating the Russians and the waiving of the white flag at Liaoyang, the Japanese have quickly proven themselves as an overall competitor to the West in terms of political and military power. By the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in September 5, 1905, it recognized Japanese supremacy in Korea, oversaw the transition of Russian holdings in Manchuria (Liaodong…

The Decision to Drop the Bomb During the summer of 1945, things were looking pretty grim for Imperial Japan, as they were the last axis power left and had been under constant firebombing for the United States, President Truman chose to drop two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima on August 6th and one on Nagasaki on August 9th. Since before either of the two bombs had been dropped, it has been debated whether or not it was the right decision. Truman stated that the bombs were dropped to save…

Issa start… feel free to add/edit shit wherever u see fit whenever u get around to it ANALYSIS PARAGRAPH 0. Key stat (1) In the source, the speaker states that patriotism is the love of your own people, while nationalism is the hatred of others above all else. The speaker, Charles de Gualle, is saying that when patriotism is taken to the extreme, nationalism can become destructive and hateful to the point where it is set as more of a priority to resent another nation than to just simply be…

War is usually associated with pain, loss, and destruction. There is no doubt that the issues World War II brought were devastating for many citizens of the world. However, there are times when the results of war have paved the road for moral beginnings in order to remake society. After World War II, the world was stricken with shock from the atrocious crimes German officials had committed. The Nuremberg Trials changed how war crimes would be approached for decades to come. These trials helped…

Even though Mao Zedong’s communist party (the CCP) had far less men than his opponents; rejected aid from the Soviet Union at the same time as his opponents received it in massive quantities from the West, he was able to take control of the country in 1949 and establish what is now a regime on the verge of superpower status. Whether this triumph is a testimony to the genius of communist methods, or whether it was rather the result of wider social, economic, political and military conditions, can…

had been two other books that had been published about this topic however, none of these books were in english, Chang took it up to herself to write a book about these digesting events. She describes the events that happened before Japan invaded Nanking all the way to the end, that of course being towards the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Chang had included photographs, translated diary entries, and maps to help describe just what was happening during these awful…

The history of Japan’s procurement and extortion of comfort women during World War II has only been brought to light in the early 1990’s when nineteen of the remaining comfort women survivors broke decades of silence and shared their personal experiences of Japan’s army-run comfort stations. From the development of the stations, the actual procurement of women and the sexism and dehumanization present in the comfort camps, the Japanese government fully supported and approved a war crime “to…