In Westbrook’s Why We Fought‚ he makes a strong argument on how most people in the United States viewed the Axis powers‚ and more importantly Japan as real threat to their way of life. People were told that Japan was not only different that it was a country that embodied everything that the United States stood for‚ albeit that changed during the war. Not only that‚ but Westbrook mentions the differences between the Germans and the Japanese varied greatly‚ “The Nazis were bad Germans‚ to be judged
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United States and Japan had been butting heads for several decades over land‚ mineral rights‚ and China (Deborah Bachrach). This clashing led up to the most ferocious surprise attack and American loss on the United States soil known to this day. The Japanese had scrupulously planned‚ successfully struck‚ and triumphantly destroyed the naval base Pearl Harbor‚ which left many Americans dead or wounded. The United States had allied with China and due to the imperialistic views of Japan. China was always
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December 13‚ 1937 marked the date of the onset of the true horrors in Nanking. Japan mutilated the city in every imaginable fashion. “Although [the Chinese] greatly outnumbered the Japanese and had plenty of ammunition‚ they withered under the ferocity of the Japanese attack” (The History Place). Essentially defenseless‚ as the people were centrally gathered in two main Nanking streets‚ the Chinese civilians and military were slaughtered ruthlessly. Japanese forces acted in unfathomably inhumane
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what would become World War II‚ one of the largest global conflicts in history. Focusing on relations between Japan and China‚ a variety of factors set up an easily identifiable opportunity for Japan to invade China. The Republic of China in the 1930s was a divided nation‚ hosting a power struggle between the nationalist rule of Chiang Kai-Shek‚ and the Communist party led by Mao Tse Tung. Japan‚ being a small island nation‚ saw great potential in China’s vast abundance of natural resources. With a divided
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Pearl Harbor. Tojo was seen as a dictator controlling the Japanese. The Japanese departed in northern japan. The Japanese military and navy was also involved in the attack on December 7 1941. The victims of the Pearl Harbor attack were the unprepared Pearl Harbor near Honolulu‚ Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was the home of U.S naval vessels‚ battle sips aeroplanes‚ soldiers and sailors. Why did Japan take the actions they did? One influence the Japanese had to take the actions they did because the U.S
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Hiroshima and Potsdam‚ traditionalist historians‚ in early 1970‚ wished to return the histories back to the original arguments on the Japanese surrender. David Bergamini transforming the study in Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy: How Emperor Hirohito led Japan into war against the West‚ he returns to Butow’s arguments on the surrender. In his history‚ Bergamini examines the history of Japanese culture in two volumes. Following the study in a similar course that the previous traditional historians‚ Bergamini
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original 47 ronin from 1701 in Japan. John Allyn Jr. is incredibly qualified to retell this story. He attended the Army Specialized Training Program at Stanford University in 1944‚ where he majored in Japanese language. He later attended the Army Intensive Japanese Language School at the University of Michigan in 1945. He worked as Pictorial Censor of the Civil Censorship Detachment of G2‚ SCAP‚ in Osaka and Tokyo during the first four years of the U.S. occupation of Japan. He returned to America and
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Pearl Harbor was a hard time for the U.S. to realize what Japan had done. The attack happened on December 7‚ 1941 which it was a surprise attack in which the americans had no idea. The news spread from coast to coast that Japan had attack Pearl Harbor and killed many lives. The radios were spreading the information on what happened in Pearl Harbor more quickly than anyone could suggest. The Americans had a hard time focusing on what Japan did‚ which for most americans they remember for the rest of
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References: Cockcroft‚ R & Cockcroft‚ S 2005‚ Persuading people – an introduction to rhetoric‚ 2nd edn‚ Palgrave Macmillan‚ Basingstoke‚ Hampshire. ‘Pact with Japan must be welcomed’‚ Courier Mail‚ 15 March 2007‚ p. 36. Reinking‚ J A‚ Hart‚ A W & von der Osten‚ R. 1999‚ Strategies for successful writing: A rhetoric‚ research guide‚ reader‚ and handbook‚ Prentice Hall‚ New Jersey‚ pp 156-181. Venables‚ M 2007‚
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the feelings of animosity in America against Japan increased. By late 1945‚ the Allied leaders met in Germany with news of a secret new weapon‚ called the atomic bomb‚ created by American scientists‚ that was powerful enough to destroy an entire city. However‚ there were some feelings that the bomb was too powerful‚ and the leaders chose instead to send the Potsdam Declaration to Japan warning them to surrender. The Japanese military did not know about the atomic
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