one was his daughter who was first enthroned as Empress Koken and then as Empress Shotoku . It is during this period that Buddhist monks started to gain more political influence. They were not anymore following the strict rules that
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in the war against Japan and signed with the communist new government of Poland the political Oder line as the frontier with Germany. With those changes the URSS gained Konigsberg and Lvov for Poland‚ meanwhile Poland toke the principal port of Berlin‚ Stettin‚ and the rest of Prussia‚ part of Brandenburg‚ Pomerania and Silesia. A lot of German people were deported to the new shared Germany‚ who lost the 25% of the territory after the war. Despite that‚ the USA didn’t invade Japan because the American
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the men and women stationed at the naval base. Japanese fighter planes successfully destroyed twenty American naval vessels‚ eight battle ships‚ and more than three hundred planes. More than two thousand American soldiers and sailors were killed during this attack. Pearl Harbor was an attack that shocked and scarred the American people for decades to
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On Sunday‚ December 7‚ 1941‚ Japan launched a sneak attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor‚ destroying the peace of a beautiful Hawaiian morning and leaving much of the fleet broken and burning. The destruction and death that the Japanese military put upon Pearl Harbor that day was 18 naval vessels (including eight battleships) sunk or heavily damaged‚ 188 planes destroyed‚ over 2‚000 servicemen killed was exacerbated by the fact that American commanders in Hawaii were caught by surprise
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During World War II‚ the United States of America thought they could live safely as none of the warring nations on the other continents could possibly attack the US. Americans were neutral to the war in Europe. What they didn’t anticipate was that they were the ones being targeted. The United States was going to be invited into the war with an attack from Japan at Pearl Harbor. But was the United States invited in or inviting themselves into the war? From the actions of the United States‚ they invited
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On December 8‚ 1941‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan‚ going on to saying‚ “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion‚ the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory... we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost‚ but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.” Soon after‚ Germany and Italy did the same‚ marking the entry of the U.S. into World War II.
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The modern period was a turbulent time for all East Asian nations. China‚ Japan‚ and Korea were all faced great challenges in the modern era and responded to them in different ways. China and Korea turned inwards initially and opened up (except for North Korea) more recently‚ while Japan was the first to modernize and has been open for decades. The first and possibly most tragic country in the modern period was China which stuck firmly to traditionalism into the 20th century and would later on
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attacked by Japan. On this terrible day‚ over 2‚400 Americans were killed by the bombs that the Japanese dropped. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor for many different reasons. One of the reasons was that the U.S placed an embargo on Japan. The embargo blocked the Japanese from receiving materials such as steel and fuel which were essential items. Another reason is that America did not agree with Japan’s desire to expand in the Pacific. Both entities had their eyes set upon the Phillipines and Japan was willing
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on‚ all world was getting involved in it. Some countries weren ’t happy about their situation and one of them was Japan. In this essay I am going to discuss why Japanese attack the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor‚ Japan getting stronger‚ about atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ was Truman right to drop it. War in Pacific began when General Tojo‚ Chief Minister of Japan‚ on Sunday 7 December 1941 decided to attack Pearl Harbor‚ in Hawaii. USA was not at the war that time and no one was
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Japan is an island country situated in East Asia which is located in the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo is the capital of Japan. The four largest islands of Japan are as follows: Honshu‚ Hokkaido‚ Kyushu‚ and Shikoku which makes 97% of the land area of Japan. JOMON PERIOD Jomon Period is the pre-historic period in Japan from 14‚500 BCE to 100BCE. The name Jomon is derived from the “cord marking” that were found in the pottery during the Jomon period. The people during this period were semi- sedentary and lived
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