Should Emperor Hirohito be responsible for the invasion of China from 1937 to1945? The Second Sino-Japanese war started officially on the 7th July‚ 1937. During the eight years of fighting‚ more than 30 million Chinese were killed including civilians and soldiers. (Wu‚ 2005) Emperor Hirohito was excused from the trial after World War II and was kept in throne for another 44 years. The fact that the war time Prime Minister Hideki Tojo took all the responsibility at the International Military Tribunal
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Foreign policy of both the United States and the Soviet Union took a different turn at the end of World War II‚ as both nations emerged as Superpowers. The Soviets were at ease due to the crippling of the Germany Empire‚ and the elimination of the threat of Fascism along their western boarders‚ and the United States believed they had ended any threats against them with the development and use of atomic weapons. The desire to lead the world in trade and industry‚ developments in space and science
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I was just a small town boy who loved being a kid and spending time with family. I grew up in a small town in southern Alabama wasn’t well known to anyone who didn’t live there. I lived on a little farm with my mama‚ papa and my two younger brothers. My youngest brother John was 6 years younger than me‚ and the middle brother Jim was about 2 years younger than me. A year and a half after my youngest brother was born‚ my papa and I were out working in the fields and we were picking some corn to go
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Cold War is indirect conflict between the two super powers that is the United States and the Soviet Union. When World War II ended in 1945‚ Soviet troops occupied countries like Czechoslovakia‚ Poland‚ Romania‚ and others. America‚ British‚ and French occupied the western half‚ while the Soviet occupied the eastern half of Germany. The Soviet Union wanted Europe to be rebuilt along Marxist lines and being a communist country‚ while the U.S. wanted Europe to be rebuilt along Democratic Capitalist
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Changes in Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union Since the fall of the Soviet Union 1991 many changes have been brought to Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union newly formed countries of Eastern Europe found themselves brought into a new era‚ many of the people had relied on the Soviet Union’s system of socialism to help them with every detail of their lives and to dictate their lives but with this newfound freedom citizens had many changes forced upon them. All they once knew had been
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on Earth a big endeavor is taking place‚ an important plan‚ on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants‚ certainly will not succeed.” The Collapse of the Soviet Union is a large example of this quote being true. Emerging from the Russian Empire‚ the Soviet Union was a union of several Soviet states including Armenia‚ Georgia‚ Ukraine‚ Estonia‚ Lativa‚ Belarus‚ and many more. The USSR‚ at one point‚ was a global superpower in the 1900’s that was ruled by communism. Within
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The Soviet and Chinese governments while both Communist served the needs of different classes of people. Both of the Governments were extremely repressive to their citizens and they were responsible for the death of millions of its citizens. Both nations manufactured a form of cult around their leaders that to this day is still prevalent in both nations. The Russian revolution began in 1905 when unarmed civilian marched towards Czar Nicolas II Winter Palace. Bloody Sunday as it is called was January
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The United States and the Soviet Union are two major world powers that believe in two different ways of running government. The Soviet Union is a communist country. A communist country is run on the belief that everyone should be equal‚ have the same money‚ the same houses‚ etc. No one should be better than anyone else. Restrictions on freedom of religion and freedom of speech. A way of “creating and sharing wealth.” The United States believes in the ways of running a country through capitalism:
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The ‘Space Race’ was an unofficial competition between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the focus of which was space exploration. It began after World War II‚ in the mid-1950s‚ when Russia launched a satellite into space. After this‚ the race was on between America and Russia to gain as much ground in space as possible. The Space Race began in 1955‚ when both the United States and the Soviet Union announced they would be launching artificial satellites into space. Russia took the announcement
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Stalin wanted to carry out the economic policies to turn the Soviet Union in to a modern world power meaning a self-sufficient state and military strong socialist state. Stalin wanted to show that supremacy of communism over capitalist nations. To add to that‚ Stalin wanted to fix the living standards of all Soviet citizens. Stalin wanted to feed the population‚ but in order to that‚ he wanted or needed the soviet agricultural sector of the economy to be more prominent. Stalin waned to increase
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