World War II

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    After world war two, there was a transformation of American that took place in the nation. Had much changing with the automobile, television, the GI bill, suburbanization, and effect of consumerism in the nation society, women gender, and racial segregation experience. Additionally, able to know the role that religion had in the Post World War II society. To start from transformation that happen back then, with the new start of the television and the automobile, and people started to use them in…

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    In the book, The Great Depression and World War II Organizing America, 1933-1945, author Gerald Nash provides an overview of life before the Great Depression. Some of the aspects included are Americans reaching for wealth, diminishing poverty, and the rise of the industrial age. Businesses were flourishing, and many Americans obtained stocks. However, the stock market prices declined until the Stock Market crash of 1929 which set off the Great Depression. With an economic downturn, Americans…

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    World War II was a difficult time period due to the internment of the Japanese-Americans. Because it was during World War II, the Japanese decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt feared that the Japanese-Americans were working as spies for the Japanese which is why he forced them into internment camps. The imprisonment of the Japanese-Americans was greatly affected by racism. All of the Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps soon after the bombing…

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    changed after World War II World War II started with a healthy list of rich powerful countries. At the end of the war only two so called super powers were left. The United States did not want any part of the war effort originally. The only program that was in place was the Lend-Lease Act which was put in place to provide relief to free countries to help bounce back from what the war was doing. This essay will cover why the United States joined the war and how the war was ended. The war did…

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    World War II World War II was arguably one of the deadliest wars in the history of the world. It started in 1939 and ended in 1945 and yielded approximately 80 million deaths, including casualties of war and those who died of disease and exposure to chemicals used during the war. One major cause of the war was the invasion of Poland by the Germans, however; the Treaty of Versailles was also a catalyst to the start of the war. The Treaty of Versailles required an already poor Germany to pay for…

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    concentration camp and killed them. But later the red army was driving Hitlers troops back. And Germans was losing the war in the military perspective. But later he killed himself and his wife. so he would not be captured and tortured. Then his body was put into sea.Adolf Hitler death and defeat was a great thing for the world as he got himself killed and defeat Adolf Hitler was defeat in World War 2. He was defeated because he was the leader of Germany and getting Germany soldiers to take…

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    vital to the history because he played a major role within world history. He was known as the Showa Tenno emperor. Showa is translated into "enlightened peace" and Tenno is translated into "heavenly sovereign." This is exceptionally ironic because he was the emperor during numerous disasters. When World War 2 started, Hirohito decided to ally Japan with Germany and Italy to form the Axis Powers. Exactly how large of a role he played in World War 2 is disputed, but some believe that he was the…

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    World War II was the most destructive war and holds the record of the most people killed in a war. The estimate of how many people is 60 million and is still going up. World War II was the most destructive war in History. I know this from this short paragraph “By the end of World War II, much of Europe and Asia, and parts of Africa, lay in ruins. Combat and bombing had flattened cities and towns, destroyed bridges and railroads, and scorched the countryside. The war had also taken a staggering…

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    Leading up to the United States’ involvement in World War II, Japan exhibited aggressive imperialistic quests throughout Asia. After an attack on an American military base in Hawaii, the United States would enter combat in an attempt to curb the Japanese aggression. World War II consisted of battles mainly against Germany in Europe and Japan in the Pacific, and the Allies heavily relied on the United States to control the Pacific. American involvement in the Pacific eventually disabled Japanese…

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    We live in a world of chaos and dictatorship. A world where you can be killed for having a disability, a world where being too old is a crime, and a world where opinions are never considered. Children are born in factories in test tubes, and our emotions are trapped in a bottle, like a pill we swallow, the poison we ingest. It is what controls our lives. Despite all this, we live in a world that is considered perfect by his Excellency. Hitler, our supreme leader of the United States of America,…

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