Introduction While the United States (U.S.) Intelligence Community can claim a plethora of accomplishments‚ it has also endured a number of challenges. As the two examples below highlight‚ these challenges have been at the heart of critical events that restructured the current U.S. National Security Strategy. WWI - WWII Era Background: Pearl Harbor All-out conflict between the U.S. and Japan had been looming for so long that each nation had developed plans for large-scale combat since the 1920s
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and over 300 fighter aircraft. With their sizeable fleet consisting of over 200 ships‚ including carriers‚ destroyers‚ two dozen submarines‚ and cruisers‚ Japanese commanders expected to pull off an another Pearl Harbor. Like their sneak strike in Hawaii‚ the Japanese attacked Midway Island with substantial force. With faulty tactics and Asian smugness‚ their initial ill-conceived battle plan was to invade a key
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Review 1. Reasons Japan Attacked at Pearl Harbor after General Tojo takes over Japan he starts to expand it across the pacific‚ including European colonies‚ so the U.S. puts an oil embargo on Japan. Japan attack because of this and Hawaii = in pacific. 2. Attack at Pearl harbor- created by Yamamoto- 12/7/41. 359 Jap planes‚ only 29 shot down. Pearl Harbor = shallow= special torpedo’s created. Sinks 8 U.S. battleships. U.S.S. Arizona= 1 3. War Production Board/War Labor Board- took over industry
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promising to address this problem‚ and bring on this change in the government‚ is current Democratic Presidential Nominee: Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. Barack Hussein Obama was born August 4‚ 1961‚ and lived much of his childhood in the state of Hawaii. Being the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother‚ he has been able to live a very culturally diverse life‚ and also has had the chance of living life as a minority citizen. This‚ combined with the fact that he received degrees from
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Looking back to the class of 1941‚ the year I graduated I now see that I was an immature 18 year old that had no idea what to do in life. I had always thought I knew where I wanted to go the whole time‚ but now I see there was someone anchoring me to the small town of Pebbles‚ Pennsylvania‚ and that someone was no other than Ariel Sacator. Ariel was the most outstanding young woman in Shores County. I had the largest crush on her ever since primary school‚ and she had one on me. We were made for
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The Unimaginable: The life in Japanese Americans Internment Camps By OUTLINE Introduction Thesis: Even though the Japanese Americans were able to adapt to their new environment‚ the Japanese American internment camps robbed the evacuees of their basic rights. Background I. Japanese Americans adapted to their new environment by forming communities at the camps. A. One of the first actions that evacuees took is establishing school system. B. The evacuees established self-government
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women often swing to extreme types: the docile‚ subservient sexual object‚ or the dragon lady. Asian Americans only make up a small percentage of the United States population and live mostly on the west and east coasts of mainland United States and Hawaii. Consequently‚ the rest of the American population will most likely get their exposures to Asian Americans through television and movies. Popular media exposure to Asian Americans lacks one-on-one acquaintance with Asian Americans. It hinders the
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rights as American citizens‚ because they did not have freedom to choose where to live and had to be sent away‚ due to race. In December 7‚ 1941‚ the Japanese Navy Service launched a military strike on the United States Naval Fleet at Pearl harbor‚ Hawaii. That catastrophe was the leading factor to the United States joining World War II. In fact‚ days after the bombing‚ the United States went to war with Japan and Germany. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the invasion as “ a date which will
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On December seventh‚ 1941‚ hundreds of Japanese bombers launched an attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. They took off from Japanese aircraft-carriers which set out from Japan and remained radio silent and not detected. In this attack‚ the USS was badly damaged and almost lost the Pacific Fleet. Although the attack only lasted about 2 hours consisted of 2 waves of attack‚ over 2400 American soldiers lost their lives‚ more than 1000 soldiers were injured and 12 United States Navy vessels
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Japanese-Americans as a Minority Japanese-Americans are a minority group consisting of people with ethnic ties to the archipelago of Japan‚ in eastern Asia. According to Pew Research Center (2012)‚ there were approximately 1‚304‚286 Japanese-Americans living in the United States in 2011. With the overall trend of Asian-American populations rising (Pew Research Center‚ 2012)‚ this number has certainly gone up‚ especially due to‚ according to Toji (2003)‚ those with mixed ancestry. Japanese-Americans
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