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    Japan After World War Ii

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    Japan’s development after the Second World War. 1. The real situation after World War After the World War II ended‚ Japan was one of the defeated countries. She was left with a lot of damages‚ especially the two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki which suffered serious atomic bombing. Severe food shortages were common; the economy was almost totally paralyzed from wartime destruction‚ rampant black marketeering and runaway inflation; few Japanese had any money but there really wasn’t anything to

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    Many problems began for Germany when World War II began‚ but by the end of the war Germany was a disaster waiting to happen. After WWII was over Germany found itself split between France‚ the United States‚ Britain‚ and the Soviet Union‚ each country controlling a part. Berlin‚ which was surrounded by the Soviet Union‚ was also divided into four sections. The Soviet Union was in control of half of Germany‚ and it happened to be the East half of the Germany. The Soviet Union made East Berlin the

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    February 12‚ 2013. Education after WWII After World War II‚ President Roosevelt signed the G.I Bill on June 22‚ 1944. The aim was to provide federal aid to help veterans adjust to civilian life. The Bill helped provide hospitalization benefits‚ purchase of homes and businesses‚ education was also a highly demanded benefit from the GI Bill. Enrollment in university campuses soared in United States after the G.I Bill was passed in the United States. It was also a time when women and minority students

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    Propaganda in World War II American Propaganda in World War II helped the war effort in many ways. Propaganda is using many different sources of materials to influence the way one thinks. It is very often used in wars to help influence the way the country feels and reacts to the war. Some ways they do this is stereotyping and half-truths among many other techniques to help with the effort o war and to help them win. America used many propaganda techniques in world war II. One of the

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    During March of 1945‚ the war in Europe was finally over. Germany surrendered to the Allies‚ and Hitler was out of the picture entirely. With the war in the east finished‚ the US now focused on defeating Japan in the Pacific. Harry S. Truman‚ the president and Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces at the end of the war‚ decided to use the first and second atomic bombs on Japan to end the war all together. He chose to do so due to America’s need to end the war and Japan’s resilience against surrendering

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    The Second World War ultimately began because Germany wanted to avenge its loss in the first World War. Fascism became popular in Italy and Germany during this time. In Germany‚ Hitler wanted to take over German speaking countries surrounding Germany‚ such as Austria‚ and parts of Czechoslovakia. Although‚ he was offered an appeasement‚ Hitler broke his promise and he demanded to get those countries back. Hitler and the German army started spreading across Europe‚ killing thousands of civiians.

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    Effects of World War I on the United States   During the early nineteenth century most of Europe and the United States entered the First World War. However‚ when war first broke out the United States refused to enter the war and President Wilson was determined to remain a neutral country. Although the United States wished to remain neutral‚ they still continued to trade with warring nations‚ which ultimately caused them to join the war. If the United States had stayed out of the war completely

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    World War II was the deadly war in history because ‚ It cost a lot money‚ damaged‚ killed more people than world war I‚ and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history. World War Two was a fight against evil‚ the totalitarian‚ racist‚ militaristic German state‚ headed by Adolf Hitler. “It was a war against an enemy of unspeakable evil” meaning it was so evil that there’s no word to describe it. How did the United States become involved in World War 2? reason why U.S. entered in

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    Honors U.S History The beginning of the 1900s marked the start of the Second World War Although the U.S did not want to become involved in this war‚ it eventually joined after the Japanese attacked U.S forces in Pearl Harbor. By dropping two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and declaring war on Germany‚ the U.S had officially entered the war. Reasons why the U.S dropped these atomic bombs were and still are the subject of much controversy. After the first atomic bomb

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    World War Ii Operation Torch

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    On November 8‚ 1942‚ the military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa‚ in particular the French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco. That landing‚ code-named ’Torch‚’ reflected the results of long and contentious arguments between British and American planners about the future course of Allied strategy — arguments that were finally stilled by the intervention of the American president‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt. In both a

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