and Dutch colonies to the south. Successful attacks on colonies were judged to depend on successfully dealing with the American Pacific Fleet. Planning had long anticipated that a battle between the two Fleets would happen in Japanese home waters after the US Fleet traveled across the Pacific‚ under attack by submarines and other forces all the way. The U.S. Fleet would be defeated in a climactic battle‚ just as had the Russian Fleet in 1905. A surprise attack posed a twofold difficulty compared
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govern this‚ it is vital that we identify the causes of the war‚ however difficult the task may be. Many historians have discussed the possibilities that three of the major causes of World War II might have been Treaty of Versailles‚ the struggle during the Great Depression‚ and movement towards‚ and the ultimate failure of Appeasement; these ideas are highly plausible and the topic itself has been widely discussed. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th of June‚ 1919‚ and was signed
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merit. Japanese WWII Human Experimentation clinics‚ such as Unit 731‚ should not be used nor help influence scientific research in the modern day. Human experiments that took place at Unit 731 were as follows; vivisection‚ germ warfare attacks‚ frostbite testing and transmission of syphilis. The transmission of syphilis was orchestrated by the doctors forcing sexual acts between infected and uninfected prisoners to transmit the disease. If you resisted‚ you would be shot. After victims were
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Is the Outbreak of WWII all Hitler’s fault? Undeniably Hitler’s rise to power was a major cause of WWII; however there were other contributing factors Such as the Treaty of Versailles and the British Appeasement that were equally important. The Treaty of Versailles was a peace settlement signed after WWI had ended. The main decisions regarding content of the document were made by the United States‚ Britain‚ France and Italy; Germany was forced to sign this treaty along with an assortment of other
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artificially low and stable interest rate after WWII to stimulate venture capital . Yet most of these individual factors can be attributed to the rapid importation of western social theory‚ technology and economic practices and the combination of these with traditional values of Bushido‚ State Shinto and Japanese Tradition . The main exceptions to note is that the majority of reform came from the upper echelons of society; which in Japan meant the government. In contrast the majority of European reform came
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force. This effect was particularly large among men; eight of 10 new male workers in the decade were immigrants who arrived during that time. Over the 1990-2001 time periods‚ the nation’s civilian labor force increased from 125.8 million to 141.8 million‚ a gain of just fewer than 16 million or 12.7% over this 11 year period. The estimated number of new immigrant workers during the same period was 8.03 million; thus‚ new immigrants account for 50 percent of the growth in the nation’s civilian labor
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have an impact on the entire world from the moment it was drafted by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in August of 1941 to the present day and beyond. The two men met in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean‚ hence the name Atlantic Charter‚ during World War 2. While it is called the Atlantic Charter‚ it was technically a joint declaration by the two world leaders and as such not a formal legal document. A few months later the Charter would be agreed upon by all the Allied Nations. It was important
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Australia faced the threat of communism after WWII ended in 1945. The threat was known as the Red Menace which was caused by all the conflicts in Asia and also things that were going on in Australia at the time. The Australian government responded to the Red Menace in many ways. They took military action‚ made alliances‚ gave economoc aid and tried banning the Communist Party in Australia. Communism is a social organisation where everyone in the country/community all have common property and money
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going to transfer information to Japan to create sabotage. Japanese Internment camps were unjustified after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Placing Japanese Americans in Internment camps was unwarranted because it violated the inmate’s rights according to the Amendments‚ punished innocent citizens because of their heritage‚ and also they were treated like animals. Many difficult decisions were made during America’s hardships. Roosevelt aired on the side of caution for war‚ even with his own
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Shanghai‚ Batavia‚ and the United States to assist its agents in India. Needless to say‚ this idea of Indian independence spread down to the grass roots of Indian/Asian society and motivated people to think about an independent India. For example‚ after World War One Indian movements like
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