Essays on Pearl Harbor

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the western media reported the Sino Japanese war and how China and Japan were portrayed. Several news reports portray the Chinese as being aggressive and violent individuals thus presenting the perception of the Chinese as being less victimized in the war. In contrast, the western media portrays the Japanese as being a rational and courteous group of people while their negative roles and atrocities in both world war II and Sino Japanese war have been overlooked. This paper will further identify the underlying reasons for ideological inclinations of wartime reporting. ...

Background

In 1931, The Empire of Japan attacked and took over Manchuria, a resources-rich Chinese region. Japan took over Manchuria because it wanted to take control of the natural resources found there especially oil (Inada 11). The U.S refused to recognize Japan’s jurisdiction over Manchuria arguing that the control was established through force. The U.S had close trade relations with China, and it wanted to protect its interests in the country. Japan attacked China severally so as to weaken it from claiming back Manchuria. In 1937, the U.S started considering how it could stop Japan’s quest to expand ...

Q. 1 The preparations by the American forces in anticipation of the Spanish-American war revealed many weaknesses about the US military organization during this time in history. It also showed how unprepared America was for the war. This is notwithstanding the victory that the US registered in the war through the final liberation of Cuba and Philippines. The American civil war had rendered the US Navy weak and lacking in many critical military machines and weapons of war. Most good troops had also been lost in the previous war hence the need by President McKinley to prepare an active ...

Iriye argues that the reason why war broke out between the United States and Japan in Asia was because Japan wanted to end its ‘cold war’ policy with the United States so that war would define all political and cultural activities that the Japanese government was pursuing at the time. This essay will argue that along the lines of Iriye’s arguments that a failed effort between the United States and Japan to maintain a peaceful, but hostile, relationship culminated in a Pacific war. There will be an examination of different arguments as to which country, or countries, were ...

Introduction

Contrary to most beliefs, the participation of the United States in the Second World War was made even prior to the Japanese attack of the Pearl Harbor. Despite its stance of non-participation during the war, the United States has been involved in confidential activities that aided the Allied forces against their adversary. Consequently, its role increased after it declared war against the Japanese forces, following the latter’s attack on the US fleets in Pearl Harbor. Prior to the declaration of war against Japan, the longest serving Secretary of State, Cordell Hull sincerely pointed to the Japanese ambassador: “There ...

Brinkley (1992) argues that the Second World War was the largest conflict in human history as it ranged across six continents and cost the lives of fifty million civilians and soldiers (p.774). This essay will identify the reasons why America joined the Second World War. There will be a major analysis of the major American campaigns during the Second World War which includes: the North African campaign, the results of these campaigns, and the overall success for the Allies as a result of these campaigns. The American position in each campaign will be emphasised. Chambers (1999) suggests that even ...

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The Importance of Freedom

Freedom is taken for granted by many people because of the fact that they have never known anything else. Because of this fact; the importance of freedom is not even thought about. Freedom is very important to people for varied reasons. Having the ability to speak freely and to also pursue happiness is just two of the benefits that come with being free. Another benefit is that freedom leads to enhanced expressions of creativity allowing an individual the ability to think creatively, to be productive, and to enjoy a very good quality of ...

A reading of Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar and Melba Pattillo Beals’ Warriors Don't Cry reveals that racial prejudice in the twentieth-century societies of the United States was against anybody who was not Caucasian. In other words, while Houston’s work focuses on the Japanese-Americans’ experiences after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment that came after, Beals talks of black segregation and the laws that declared black people inferior to the whites. Hence, there are similarities between the two books as they revolve around ideas of white supremacy that placed persons of African and Japanese descent ...

In February 1942, three years after the commencement of the Second World War and a mere two months after Japan forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was President of the United States at the time, issued “Executive order 9066” (Foner 692). As per the directives of the document, the President authorized Henry Stimson, the United States Secretary of War at the time, to move West Coast individuals of Japanese descent to relocation camps. Accordingly, the military relocated an estimated eleven thousand Japanese Americans into internment camps in which they were to remain until 1946 (Foner 692). Throughout ...

Introduction

The Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prompted the United States to immediately declare war against Japan. The Pearl Harbor assault and the eventual participation of the US in the Second World War have a widespread impact, and this includes a detrimental effect on the lives of the Japanese Americans in the United States. A few weeks after both countries declared war against each other, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, with the directive to designate some parts of the West Coast under military jurisdiction. The Executive Order did not specifically mention the internment of the ...

Question 2: World War II- A Race War

Dower’s assertion was calculative and well informed. It is a true that World War II was pertinently motivated by racial pride and arrogance posed by the main participants particularly the America and Japan. Dower’s work provides a clear description of the effect of ethnicity and racial pride on the war. The scholar explores various situations with the intention of explaining motivate behind the decisions and practices assumed by each side. He presents sentiments that the two countries were equally wrong because they were all motivated by stereotypic assumption of viewing the other as polarized. Dower, feels that ...

The 20th century was a defining time in world history as well as American history. The world war is evolving with the success of the industrial revolution and the mechanized world changing the way things worked every day. There were, however, certain defining moments in American history between the 1920s and 1990s which altered the country’s social, political and security conditions from time to time. However, they have contributed to the progress and later conditions of the country. These include the great 1929’s and the Great Depression, the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the 1964 legislation ...

The battles of the two coalitions during World War II deployed on the space of the four basis theaters of war: the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the West European and the Eastern ones, with the Pacific playing the role of the primary battleground that witnessed the great sea battles between the Japanese and Allies. Apart from Nazi Germany, Military Japan also had expansionist plans in its strategy during WWII. As long as in 1931 it made an attempt to occupy Manchuria and North China, as well as the invasion into the depth of China in 1937 (Japanese Conquest). The expansion ...

Was it a surprise attack?

On the morning of December 7, 1942, America woke up to the news of a ‘surprise' attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. This would trigger America's involvement in the World War II by joining forces with the British to defeat the Germans and the Japanese. The Germans were a great threat to the U.S.A at the moment, and its victory over the British would further threaten the United States' national security. The U.S.A feared that the Germans would join forces with the Southern Americans and incite them against the U.S.A. To resist this, North America had to go ...

Japanese optimism was already very high even before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A large sect within the Japanese Military government held the same ideological notions about the United States and Western Democracies as Hitler did. The U.S. was decadent; it was afraid of the cost of war; it was split with racial and class conflict. Most had expected the attack on Pearl Harbor to lead directly to a treaty granting Japan rule over much of the Pacific (Johnson, 2006, p. 120-126). Even realists within the Japanese cabinet, like Yamamoto, the mastermind behind Pearl Harbor, who accepted the industrial ...

Quite often, America's entry into World War Two has been attributed to the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan in 1941. While that is the case, the background to Japan's attack is what drew America into the war with the Pearl Harbor attack being a mere pretext. From the onset of the war, America's policy was to maintain neutrality as envisaged by the new Neutrality Act of 1937 (Chambers, 100). By default, the Neutrality Act served to embolden Germany's quest for domination of Europe. That is because America's non-involvement made it easier for Germany to attack France and Britain. America's ...

Already in 1937, the US government was dissatisfied with the actions of the Japanese in Manchuria, as well as with the policy of Germany and Italy. Being a major supplier of oil and steel to Japan, the United States warned the Japanese government about the possibility of termination of the supply in case the Japanese army will not leave China In order to exclude the possibility of military aggression by Japan, Roosevelt throws part of the American fleet in the Hawaiian Islands located on a military base - Pearl Harbor, which is now the headquarters of the US Pacific ...

The reading, “Three Narrative of Our Humanity,” was informative, but difficult. The so-called, “sanitizing,” of Japanese history to wipe clean any remnants of the country’s part in World War II is both insulting, but understandable, as the reading admits preoccupation with the country’s own suffering is natural . American’s seem preoccupied with wanting an apology from the Japanese. At the very least, the world wants acknowledgement that the Japanese were involved. Perhaps, however, the Japanese are simply attempting to wipe out one of the most gruesome and violent parts of their history, perpetrated on them as a ...

Introduction

The greatest challenge of JFK’s presidency came in October 1962, as U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. were on the brink of a possibly a nuclear face-off over the presence of Russian missiles in Cuba, while the President had to decide whether to engage or maintain peace with their adversary. Thirteen Days provides a historical account of events transpiring during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book is written from the point of view of RFK (Robery F Kennedy), the U.S. Attorney General under his brother’s leadership. The book highlights the events of 13 days where decisions were made by the ...

Introduction

This paper focuses on the core reasons that compelled Japan to enter in the World War II, and whey they did not call on ceasefire to their charm offensive. In this research I will be seeking to give answers to the myriads of questions, including; why Japan was actively engaged in this fight, the reason why Japan attacked the USA’s Pearl harbor, and why the aftermath of this attack lead to Truman’s adoption of the atomic bomb to end the Japanese aggression towards the USA.

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The who, what, and When The roadmap to the Japanese involvement in ...

M 3/7 Topic: What kind of cultures were at war during 1920s? During 1920s two types of American cultures were at war: urban culture and rural culture. New urban culture was centered in cities and had such features as religious and ethnic pluralism due to immigration, new forms of mass entertainment (radio and motion pictures), liberated sexual rules. Rural culture concentrated in rural areas of America considered new urban culture not as an expansion of freedom, but as a threat to traditional values, religion and understanding of American freedom. An example of cultural wars was the Scopes trial (teacher ...

Though Japanese attack on American naval base in Pearl Harbor was surprise, there was a set of factors, which could potentially lead to a war between the United States and Japan earlier or later. Both sides had a clear understanding of the processes, therefore each of the nations was preparing to the possible escalation. Propensity towards armed conflict increased significantly after Japanese overrun to Manchuria (a part of Chinese territory) in 1931. During the following years Japan kept on with expansion to China, which led to start of full-scale war between Japan and China (also referred to as Second ...

People acquire experience, inspiration, and knowledge from the past. Which is why man always considerers "embellishing" the past, for he by nature is an aesthetic creature. In the present world, Man is but a "fascinated stranger." The aspiration of man that externally focuses in going beyond what he can see and hear and that which appeals to his mind leads him to the sphere of transcendental and allows him to predict the aesthetic of his life as both substantial and subjective. Consideration of this model exploration on objectification and a society of subjective aesthetical ideas contribute to the rise ...

The Second Sino-Japanese war was a conflict between the military forces of China and Japan which lasted 1937 to 1945, following the first Sino-Chinese war of 1895. It has been claimed by some historians that were it not for military and economic assistance or support from the allied forces and states of United States, Germany, and Britain, Japan would have won the war even before it began. However, this was not to be as Japan was forced to surrender after the US-led troops dropped atomic bombs one of its cities, Hiroshima in 1945. This second Sino-Japanese is considered to ...

In order to show how the possession of atomic weapons influences the strength of the United States in the world developments and the outcome of many processes in which the United States as a nuclear power state was taking part it is vital to dig a little bit deeper into the prehistory of the United States’ acquisition of the nuclear weapons. It is important in order to understand why it was significant for the state to acquire such weapon in the first place and what international developments led the state to the decision to. For the foreign policy of ...

Pearl Harbor is listed as one of the contaminated areas by the US environmental protection agency. It is also important to know that there is a naval site enacted in the Pearl Harbor region (epa.gov). Given the fact that Pearl Harbor is currently a military site, there are toxic materials that have to be transported in and out of the naval region. The EPA has listed some of the contamination and risks as soil, organic compounds, and petroleum hydrocarbons among other things. Give that some metals are solvents, there is a high risk skin infection in case of a direct contact with the ...

In his speech of December 8, 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress to urge them to declare war on Japan and gather the spirit of the American people behind this effort. In doing so, he utilized the three pillars of rhetoric – ethos, pathos, and logos. By appealing to his credibility to speak on the matter, appealing to the emotions of the listeners, and appealing to reason he made the case for America to join World War II and fight the Japanese Empire. But Roosevelt was not the first American statesman to utilize these devices to make a declaration of ...

Intelligence Studies

Although analyzing threats has being updated by Intelligence services across the globe, surprised events are still challenging for many active experts in global politics. Many theories and strategies are used to highlight unexpected events and more measures are taken in nowadays to mitigate the surprise and Pearl Harbor is a great example when it comes to analyze a threat in international security.

What happened at Pearl Harbor?

According to Fukuyama’s definition, the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese can be termed as a strategic surprise. The attack carried out by 353 Japanese aircrafts was supposed to be preventive in nature to prevent American navy from ...

Background:

In 1937, Japan had full control over Manchuria and was planning to conquer China. The Chinese suspended their civil war and formed an alliance to fight against the Japanese after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The Chinese troop received help from Soviet Union. Japanese were victorious in Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan but the Panay Incident was strongly condemned, especially by the United States. Japanese forces were stopped from spreading to the North by combined forces of Soviet and Mongolian forces. Japanese forces blocked Chinese connection to the outside world and then formed an alliance with Germany and Italy, to ...

The history of the United States’ participation in the World War II starts with the surprise military strike caused by the Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941. There are many theories concerning Pearl Harbor – some say the US government knew the Japanese were coming, others agree on the fact that the United States naval base was caught off guard. Due to the evidence related to this question it is possible to form a definite point of view so this paper is going to dwell upon Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory. Unlike their president, the American people did not want ...

Before the imperial Japan assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7th – “Day which will live in infamy” – the Japanese immigrants constituted a significant and quite a prosperous national minority among those existing in the United States in the period of inter-bellum. Despite the presence of some discrimination on the part of the white-skinned natives which consisted in not-employment of the Japanese for white-collar work and such other things “many Japanese and Japanese-Americans found relative success as entrepreneurs and business owners, particularly as farmers and hotel owners and managers” (Speidel). All of this taken in aggregate points out to the fact that ...

World War II made a deep impact on the USA. Although no direct battles took place on the American soil, all phases of American life were affected by the war. The USA took extraordinary efforts to match tactics and strategy with the allies and waged war against the Axis powers consisting of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Within a matter of few years, the country turned into an "arsenal of democracy" producing and supplying the weapons used in the war. The country experienced a total overhaul of social and economic patterns that set a new trend of life in the USA (Unger and Tomes ...

In December 7th, 1941There were attacks on the Pearl Harbor base in Hawai’i by the Japanese. At the time of the attacks, the numbers of soldiers in the base were minimal since some had closed whereas others were on weekend leaves. The incoming Japanese planes that attacked the naval base were detected, but were mistaken to a group of American planes that were expected to arrive in the naval base from the mainland. These attacks were survived and took about two hours, and the reason that made them have a big impact is the fact that it had caught The USA ...

Correlation of Discrimination and Treatment in the USA

Introduction Numerous events have occurred in the past that have led to the discrimination and marginalization of various populations of the world. Religion, education, war and other socio-cultural aspects of society have led to the development of perceptions and stereotypes against various world communities. The world over, for example, developed a negative attitude towards the Muslim community after the numerous terrorist attacks that had been plotted and accomplished in the name of the Islam religion. Every society in the world has developed a specific stereotype towards a specific individual, community or other social and cultural aspects of life, and this has ...

The Mayan apocalyptic predictions of 2012 have long since passed, and civilization has essentially moved on from its portents of doom and gloom. However, with Gregg Braden’s Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, elements of self-help spiritualism and pseudo-math are combined to create a work of New Age spiritualism that, while certainly illuminating to the converted, will not successfully convince those looking for philosophies to the universe that require greater rigor. Looking at the book through an air of skepticism, Fractal Time fails to convince, poorly using its own research and loosely connecting information together ...

Article analysis

Japan-the dominant power in Asia had developed hatred for nations that had colonies in the Asian mainland and pacific and these include the United States, Portugal and France. For this reason, Japan wanted to substitute these colonies with its own and form the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” To achieve this, Japan was prepared to go to any extent including war citing the war in china in 1937. The author’s point is that the United States resolution to resolve the outstanding difference that existed between them and Japan in 1941 bore no fruits. Instead, Japan continued to occupy ...

War is always a complicated issue, particularly with regards to wars being fought in nations not directly involved in the conflict. Public opinion of their nation entering dramatic conflicts – risking the lives of their citizens and killing others – depends largely on cultural factors that can shift and change depending on history and context. While World War II was a largely well-supported conflict, given the attack on Pearl Harbor and the undisputed evil of the Nazis, the Vietnam War had a decidedly more complex reaction. These anxieties are also reflected in literature; Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five capitalizes on the Vietnam War tension experienced ...

The Second World War happened in the year 1939 up to 1945. Its primary cause was Poland and Britain decided to declare war on Germany since Germany had invaded Poland. It led to many countries participating in it. For instance, America, Spain, japan, Italy, Britain Germany among many more. This war had diverse effects on different continents and many countries of the world. Here we shall discuss the effects it had on America. Both positive and adverse impacts. First we shall consider the positive effects the Second World War had on America. One of the positive impacts that this ...

Paper Due Date

Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 shocked the globe and was considered as the beginning of the new war that came into history as World War II. This global disaster became the most devastating and tragic event in the world history and the memory of the Second World War continues to be historians’ and researchers’ concern. Although USA proclaimed its neutrality during the war, soon after this American soldiers also were forced to become involved in World War II. It had taken two years after the outbreak of the war before “the day of infamy” changed Americans. ...

“We should never have entered the war against Germany. The Germans were no threat to us. We had been attacked by Japan and that's who we should have gone after, no matter what!”

The following lines give a backdrop of the statement.

This is a statement thought by many Americans after the Second World War. The Americans initially maintained neutrality in the war. The war started in the year 1939 with the attack of Poland. The main powers fighting in the war were –Axis power and the Allied power. Axis power consisted of Germany, Italy and Japan. The Allied powers were Soviet Union, British and France. The Axis powers ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

While few around the world are ignorant to the atrocities of World War II, not many are aware of the atrocities perpetrated in Nanking, China. Aside from the actions in Pearl Harbor, and the consequential dropping of two atomic bombs, little is mentioned in the United States or the rest of the world about the rape of Nanking. The invasion of China’s capitol, taking place in the final months of 1937, is largely agreed upon by most sources as a normal product of war. Many innocent civilians lost their lives; courageous men and women went beyond the call of ...

Introduction

The World War II is the deadliest war that the world has ever faced. Major Powers of this planet fought World War II under flags of axis and allies powers. The world war started in the year 1939 and continued till 1945 but various other battles were fought earlier that caused this war. Millions of soldiers and civilians from both sides lost their lives in this war and hundreds of millions people were directly or indirectly affected by the World War II. Winners of the war, allied forces altered boundaries of nations that lost the war. The world war ...

Question 1

The targeting of the Japanese Americans began immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack which occurred on December 1941 (Conrat & Conrat 45). The main reason they were targeted was because of the suspicion that they some were sympathizers of the Japanese government and army that had just bombed the Pearl Harbor. The Japanese people had, in fact, been treated with suspicion for a long time, and the Pearl Harbor attacks only helped to aggravate the suspicion and this time unfortunately, they were subjected to unimaginable oppression. Since they first immigrated into the United States, the Japanese had managed to create fairly ...

It was the morning of December 7, 1941 when a very large fleet of Japanese fighter planes covered 2000 miles and launched a strike on the U.S. military at the Pearl Harbor near Hawaii. The military saw 20 naval vessels, 8 enormous ships, and almost 200 airplanes crumble before their eyes during the 2 hours of the attack. 2000 American soldiers and sailors took their last breaths on the Harbor during the startling assault, and the incident left close to 1000 military men wounded. The Pearl Harbor incident was an attack on one of the strongest entities in the United States ...

The firsthand experiences of Hechler (187), Masterson (172) and Brittin (190) on the Pearl Harbor attacks provide an idea on the extent of the devastation inflicted by the Japanese military on the United States (US) military facilities in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with emphasis on the fate of the USS Arizona. Hechler (187) described how the US battleship USS Arizona sank due to the attacks by the Japanese military. Describing the USS Arizona as being “wracked by a tremendous explosion,” Hechler (187) spoke about how his own life was at risk of being diminished by the aerial bombs and bullets released ...

Introduction

The United States is a nation with rich historical happenings. There are many events that made significant to the country’s history. In this writing, several events in the United States were discussed, which did not only made history, but had major impacts on the country’s political and economic changes. The historical events include the United States industrialization during 1877, which developed the country’s economy. It is also significant in the country’s history when it joined the First World War in 1917 as well as its participation in the Second World War between 1939 and 1945. On ...

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to make a battle analysis of Pearl Harbor and look at the possible alternate outcomes using intellectual standards. Would the Second World War end differently if U.S. hadn't intervened? There are different facets to Pearl Harbor and how those tangents could have shaped the war in a different way. The paper looks at the weaker side of US military and how the Japanese took advantage of that.

Introduction

Background The United States and Japan had been inching towards a war for decades. By 1938, the US remnants were desperate for humanitarian aid and this led to ...

Introduction

While on his way to Hiroshima, it was around 7:30 a.m. when Captain William Parsons inserted the detonator along with the explosive charge into the bomb. It was around 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time) when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima over Dr. Shima’s Clinic. The glowing fireball had a temperature of about 50,000 degrees. Soon after this attack, another major city of Japan was attacked. It was basically the idea of General Leslie Groves, General Farrel and Admiral Purnell to launch two atomic bombs on Japan; the first bomb would demonstrate power and the second would tell the Japanese ...

Introduction

The Second World War brought a lot of pain, unnecessary suffering, and most importantly, loss of lives to all parties or in that case, to all countries who participated. Some of the remarkable countries who participated heavily in the form of military, resource, and manpower contributions include but may not be limited to the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In a nutshell, the Second World War was a global military and political conflict between two groups or alliances—the Axis and the Allied Powers. One of the most prominent countries that belong to the Axis Powers ...

The Bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Forces on 7 December 194: From the Personal perspective of a Navy House Wife

The book edited by Paul Stillwell and titled ‘Air Raid, Pearl Harbor!: Recollections of a Day of Infamy’ depicts the events, experiences, and accounts, from a personal perspective, of several people caught up in the bombing events on Pearl Harbor. The book contains forty seven articles, each article contributed by an individual participant. The article titled “A Navy Bride Learns to Cope,” by Peggy Hughes Ryan (231-237) deals with events before and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from the perspective of Mrs Hughes. The reactions, apprehensions, thinking and doubts of various Navy wives, as they gather around ...

Introduction

The Unites States of America has one of the most multicultural societies in the world. The nation is home to people from all races. In recent decades, the nation has become very democratic and racially tolerant. However, this has not always been the case. The United States has historically had a tendency of suppressing racially unique groups through racially motivated policies. The first example of this was the loss of liberty and land of the Native Americans to white settlers. The other action that comes to mind is the Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation between blacks and whites. There ...

- Historical Synopsis The Second World War of 1939- 1945 is classifed by many as the war that redefined the international hierarchy of nations as the war destroyed and weakened once dominant nations while some rose in dominance. Throughout the war, several critical conflicts had redefined the course of the war, and one of them was the Attack in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Attack not only signaled America’s formal inclusion in the war, but highlighted that the war was not just in Europe but also in the Pacific. In a surprise attack, the Japanese Imperial ...

The Unites States of America has one of the most multicultural societies in the world. The nation is home to people from all races. In recent decades, the nation has become very democratic and racially tolerant. However, this has not always been the case. The United States has historically had a tendency of suppressing racially unique groups through racially motivated policies. The first example of this was the loss of liberty and land of the Native Americans to white settlers. The other action that comes to mind is the Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation between blacks and whites. There ...

Islamophobic Media in Case of Park51

The past decade has experienced an increased growth of disdain for Muslims in the west especially in America. It has been a period where the western people have not hesitated to voice their opinions and expressions about Islam. The growing disdain, especially in America has been due to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. However, the proposal for the construction of an Islamic center close to the site of 9/11 terrorist attack provoked anti-Muslims activists who created a notion that the proposal was a scheme by Muslims in America to conquer the hallowed site of 9/11 ...

Compare and contrast situations in war

Understanding the reasons why men fight, why they endure emotional, physical, mental torture and death in war are complex, uncertain and even thought to be unanswerable. Despite lack of a single unifying theory to explain motivation of soldiers in combat, military leaders have to find methods to motivate their men in order to achieve victory. Historians have established several methods to inquire the motivation for war. Content analysis is widely used by several historians and war psychologists to reveal the motivation of soldiers in the Second World War and the American Civil War. What is most noticeable about both wars ...

Question1

After the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, the then American president, Theodore D. Roosevelt, passed an executive order, 9066, that gave local military leaders the authority to form special designated militarized areas within civilian populations. This order mainly affected the pacific coast of the United States because the government feared there would be a full-scale attack on American soil, especially after the initial Pearl Harbor attack (Bean 19). In the course of the two world wars, the American government always feared revolt from internal groups. In fact, the composition of the general American public was one of the main reasons ...

The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor took place in December 1941; this is after a long period of clouds of war gathering over the pacific part of the world. This was a surprise attack by Japan on the naval base of the United States which was based at the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The casualties of the attack were massive since 2,400 Americans lost their lives while 21 ships were either damaged or sunk and approximately 188 United States aircraft were destroyed (Davenport 2009, 27). The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor angered and outraged the United States government ...

In the wake of 9/11 and the beginning of the War on Terror, the American public has developed a much more complex relationship with its government than ever before. Given the fears and security risks inherent to a non-government organization with no lines of citizenship, yet significant intent to harm the American people, many changes and reevaluations of civil liberties have taken place. Most important among these is the writ of habeas corpus, which has slowly been eroded in the past decade between Guantanamo Bay and the PATRIOT Act, leaving American citizens worried about their own freedom and sovereignty being threatened ...

Introduction: General History of the Second World War

The Second World War has instigated several nations to enter into conflict against one another as they associate themselves into two major factions – the Axis powers led by Germany, Japan and Italy, and the Allied forces led by France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK). Notably, the Second World War has extended its destructive reach beyond the Western world consisting of Europe and North America towards the Asia-Pacific region, having coincided with the plan of Japan to invade mainland China dating to 1937, then known officially as the Republic of China. ...

Abstract

This paper discusses The Battle of Okinawa and The battle of Midway. The paper provides details on various aspects associated with these battles including their objectives, when the battles were fought. The paper also describes how these battles impacted human lives and countries involved in the battles. The Battle of Okinawa and The Battle of midway are two decisive battles that were fought during World War II. Both of these battles were fought between United States of America and Japan and are some of largest fought battles during era of the World War II. This paper intends to ...