At the start of 1942‚ the Manhattan Project‚ which was codename for the creation of the atomic bomb‚ began. The project was to create a high functioning bomb which caused mass destruction. As WWII came to a close‚ with Japan and the United States the only remaining countries in combat‚ neither showed signs of surrendering. Something had to be done to end the war‚ so the United States dropped the atomic bomb. It was justifiable to drop the bomb because neither country showed signs of surrendering
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On October 29‚ 1929‚ forever known as “Black Tuesday”‚ Americans were flung from wild parties‚ prosperity‚ and cultural revolutions into unemployment‚ poverty‚ and suffering. The Roaring Twenties was a time where the American people wanted to forget everything that happened in the Great War. Culture The night life soared jazz music gripped the masses and everyone danced their lives away with the flailing of limbs known as the Charleston. Economy Everybody bought stock every single business
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Japan dominates For 6 months after Pearl Harbour‚ Japan reigned supreme in the Pacific and in South Asia. Japanese troops rolled back the British‚ Australians and Americans. The loss of Singapore in February 1942 meant that Britain’s key naval base in the Far East was in Japanese hands. Battle of Midway – June 1942 Japanese victories come to an end…the Americans began island hopping. The strategy was to avoid strongly defended enemy islands and isolate them from support. The re-conquest of the
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became a fairly complete system‚ After Meiji Restoration‚ the shinto continue to respect as a state religion‚ and it also became a government tool to teach people to be loyalty to the emperor. After Japan’s defeat in World War II in 1946‚ Emperor Hirohito issued a statement to deny his godhead status‚ which means he admitted that he is not a god‚ but just a human being‚ the Allied commander also called for the abolition of State Shinto in Japan‚ Shinto started to became a folk religion‚ not a state
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emperor in 1989. I assume that many of her ages or higher will admire his death‚ because they’ve lived economically glorious time the emperor made. Also‚ the emperor hadn’t been exposed by media or people‚ which makes more deific of him. If the emperor Hirohito was more often exposed by people like the emperor Akihito‚ the emperor Hirohito’s divine character might be weaken just like todays celebrities gossips. After he declared “he is just a human‚ not a god” and several surgeries‚ people started to think
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World war 2 (WW2) was a worldwide war that lasted 6 years. From September 1st‚ 1949 to september 2nd‚ 1945. Many countries and and people were affected from this war. Millions of soldiers and civilians were dead. The second world war had become the deadliest war in history. The war’s fatality number was around 50 through 85 million according to wikipedia. That’s around 70% of the people involved. Although it is said to have been started in 1939‚ the Pacific had already been at war with China around
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WWI‚ formerly the Great War‚ started in the summer of 1914 and ended in November 1918 and only about 21 years later WWII started in 1939 and did not end until 1945. WWI and WWII have many similarities and differences in tactics‚ weapons‚ and theaters of war‚ leaders‚ and technology. One of the similarities that these wars had was in tactics. Some of the tactics used in WWI were early forms of the Blitzkrieg tactic. Also there were differences in the tactics. Most of the tactic used in WWI was
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agree with the statement as the bombing was the most viable way to force the Japanese to surrender. The Allied offer of the Potsdam Conference on July 26‚ 1945 stipulated that the war would end only when the Japanese surrendered and gave up Emperor Hirohito. This offer was completely unacceptable to the Japanese‚ who‚ at the time‚ regarded their emperor as a god. President Harry S Truman was in a situation where he could not change the
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experienced 3 different historical eras. July 1912 saw the death of the much exulted Emperor Meiji‚ his successor (called the Taisho Emperor) was succeeded in turn by his son Hirohito (Showa Emperor) after only 10 years. This was largely due to mental illness. Despite the Taisho era lasting only 14 years in total (Hirohito was only acting as regent from 1922 until his father’s death in 1926)‚ due to the First World War a tremendous number of changes came in to place during this time. Not least the
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returned. The Japanese people had their rights and these rights were taken away from them. The bombing of Pearl Harbor is remembered as the day that thrust America into World War II. Although it is remembered greatest in Japan by the words of Emperor Hirohito “ Today we woke the Sleeping Giant. “ This quote came just weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This is most likely the main reason for Japanese internment because they were afraid of espionage even though no signs of espionage from Japanese-Americans
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