World War resulted in many racial conflicts in America; Asian immigrants including Japanese were the primary victims of such discrimination. World war two is one of the most horrible events which affected the whole world badly. There were six continents involved in this war‚ and this terrible war killed almost 50 million people. When this war ended‚ it left many ruined economies and broken infrastructure. All the industrialized powers of Europe‚ North America‚ and Asia were involved in the war with
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World War II and the Cold War The world was left unhappy after World War I and another war broke out‚ World War II. This was followed by yet another war‚ the Cold War. The aggression of European and Asian dictators led to war. These dictators were totalitarian dictators. Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens’ lives. One of the most infamous dictators of all time‚ Adolf Hitler‚ was the despot of Germany. Hitler created Nazism
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During World War II‚ the Soviet Union and the United States became allies throughout war‚ but that does not mean that they necessarily got along. The two coped with each other since they didn’t have the same views‚ the main one being Communism. In the five years following World War ll‚ the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union changed greatly. With the United States being democratic and the Soviet Union being communist‚ the two became entangled in several political and economic
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Causes of World War II World War I was one of the most destructive wars in modern history. Nearly ten million soldiers died as a result of hostilities. The enormous losses on all sides of the conflict resulted in part from the introduction of new weapons‚ like the machine gun and gas warfare‚ as well as the failure of military leaders to adjust their tactics to the increasingly mechanized nature of warfare. A policy of attrition‚ particularly on the Western Front‚ cost the lives of hundreds of
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Communism: Post World War II events and Their Impact on the American People. America has experienced social‚ political and economic events that have greatly shaped this nation and impacted its people in the decades following World War II. Most political and social events had an influence on the citizens of America. Certain events were so profound that they remain in the minds of generations not born in these times. The impact of these events will be touched on throughout this paper analyzing
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Poland in 1939‚ the United States knew that another World War was coming on. After World War I America decided that they did not want to be involved in another war due to the devastation that it had caused before. However President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided differently. With competing views among the isolationists and the interventionists‚ FDR concluded that the only way for the Great Depression to end was to become involved in another war. The Great Depression destroyed the economies of the
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Australia’s Response to the threat of Communism Australia’s Response to the threat of Communism Australia’s response to the threat of communism after WW2 was extraordinary. Australia and its politicians immediately recognised what could happen of a result of the domino theory. With the Soviet Union influencing so many countries and causing China‚ Vietnam‚ and North Korea to turn Communist it was only matter of time until it reached Australia‚ and all in all this was when Australia took action
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Causes of World War II The culmination of events that led to World War II are generally understood to be the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the 1937 invasion of the Republic of China by the Empire of Japan. These military aggressions were the decisions made by authoritarian ruling elites in Germany and Japan. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war and/or armed resistance. In the aftermath of World War I‚ a defeated Germany signed
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How did the Australian Government respond to the threat of communism both within Australia and in Asia? The Australian Government responded to the threat of communism in Asia including forward defence‚ the ANZUS Treaty and the SEATO Alliance. Within Australia‚ the responses included a referendum to ban Communist Party and the Petrov Affair. Forward Defence was a foreign policy used by the Australian Government in response to the threat of communism. The Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam
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The Aftermath of World War II Introduction: World War II ended with the surrender of the Axis powers. A week after Adolf Hitler committed suicide‚ Germany surrendered‚ on May 7th to the Western Allies‚ and on May 8th to the Soviet Union in 1945. Japan was able to pull through for few months‚ but soon atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA on August 6th and 9th respectively. This finally convinced the Japanese Government that they had no choice but to surrender. The
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