Pearl Harbor was deliberately attacked by the Japanese on December 7‚ 1941. Reports indicate that 2400 people were killed and 1300 were wounded. [1-ap] The reason Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was because that was where all of the U.S. Navy ships were positioned. The Americans went on the offensive against the Japanese in the Pacific in mid-1942. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on‚ a medium-sized Japanese city‚ Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August
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Comparatively‚ the Japanese acquired 271‚000 troops in Manchuria with plans to offensively attack and divert the Russian infantry into eastern Manchuria. Ironically‚ the Russian military also planned to carry out an offensive attack against the Japanese. The Japanese developed a plan which‚ if executed correctly would push the Russians backward. However‚ if the Japanese had difficulties synchronizing their attacks‚ the Russians would have an opportunity to maintain their position allowing them
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Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? The start of the Second Sino-Japanese War‚ in 1937‚ generated friction between the Japanese Empire‚ the United States and the British Empire. The United States and the United Kingdom reacted to the Japanese military actions in China by imposing an embargo on raw metal followed by oil also sent covert military aid to the Kuomintang government. When Japan occupied Indochina‚ a French colony in 1940‚ the Western powers responded with an asset freeze
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characteristics are true in some cases‚ but in others it’s just a way of stereotyping people‚ like the notion that blonde girls are dumb or Asians are bad drivers. In the two articles “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner and “The Lady in Red” by Richard Lemieux‚ Eighner provides for himself free of cost by dumpster diving‚ but Lemieux is simply at what most people would call “rock bottom” of his life at the time‚ so he resorts to begging people for money. These two men are not your typical drunk bums hanging
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Should the US have bombed Japan after Pearl Harbor? By Noah Richardson Yes‚ Pearl Harbor was an act of war and we had every right to retaliate using whatever force necessary. After being defeated and driven back to Japan‚ the Japanese military refused to surrender and the Japanese Emperor was encouraging his private citizens to protect their homeland from invasion. The rest of the world considered that the Japanese efforts t o take over the islands of the Pacific were unacceptable‚ especially
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yards before that is a gate with a door allowing access to the backyard. The backyard has my favorite asset of the house‚ the swimming pool. It is a large rectangular swimming pool that gradually goes from four feet to ten feet deep. The pool has a diving board at the deep end‚ a ladder to get out of the pool‚ and steps with railing at the shallow end to get in and out. On the left side of the pool there is the house‚ and on the right of the pool there is a decent sized section of grass and a shed
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl The book Pirates of the Caribbean‚ written by Irene Trimble is about the legend of a pirate ship called the Black Pearl its curse and the crews that fight for it. Jack Sparrow was once captain of the Black Pearl but now Barbossa is the captain. Jack and Will Turner are on a mission to take over the black pearl and save Elizabeth from Barbossa and his crew. Barbossa and his pirate crew are cursed. Because of the curse the food they eat
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The swimmers while swim in the swimming pools are not facing identical and constant environment‚ where they could perform according to their merits. Theses swimmers are facing vague gravitational forces‚ which becomes advantageous to some and disadvantageous for others depending upon their swimming lane positions in the swimming pool while swimming. This study is based on scientific principles of gravitational physics for the benefit of swimmers world over‚ so that they could be given equal opportunity
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the middle part of the pool. There was also another rope divider that separated the deep end from the five feet water. At the end of the pool there were three diving boards two small and one high dive. You could see all the children splashing and playing in the water while the other kids were waiting patiently to get their turn on the diving boards and the slides. There were a few people lying in the white lawn chairs trying to soak up some of the sunrays. We made sure to put on some sun block so
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A Good Experience of Swimming Swimming has been my favorite sport since I was a kid. The reason might be I wanted to be a mermaid living at the sea because of the mermaid tales I had read. However‚ I joined the swimming team when I was in high school. During that period‚ our team joined a lot of large-scale and famous swimming competitions by Hong Kong Swimming Association. It helped me to meet with other athletes and learn from them. We could share our experience‚ and discuss about
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