’Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?’ In December 1941‚ Pearl Harbor was assaulted by the Japanese. It was the outcome of a progression of occasions which conveyed strain amongst Japan and America to breaking point. Japan was a nation developing in force and stature and America soon came to understand that this development could demonstrate a risk to them. America meant to stop Japan’s development in its tracks as they understood that if the circumstance was left to advance any longer then the circumstance
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the Second World War‚ the Japanese captured approximately 3 million prisoners of war. The sufferings of these people were horrific‚ with an extremely high death rate. This essay will compare and contrast the treatment of Prisoners of War between Japan and the Allied forces during the Pacific War. Prisoners of the Japanese‚ including Australians were treated much worse than those of the Allies because provisions in Japanese camps were low and Red Cross packages were denied‚ and the rate of death
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The United States was in a long‚ and unpredictable war with Japan since 1941. They had taken the island of Iwo Jima which had injured or killed more than 26‚000 American soldiers. Not only that‚ they had also taken the island of Okinawa which took the lives of 20‚000 American soldiers and wounded more than 30‚000 more. In the process the Japanese had over 100‚000 casualties. War torn Japan had no signs of prosperity coming close to a proposed Allied invasion called Operation Downfall‚ and the estimated
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Hideki Tojo Hideki Tojo was given the position of Prime Minister of Japan on October 14th‚ 1941‚ which really became the entrance of Japan and America into World War II because of Hideki’s war background that would lead him to make a decision that forever will be in the history books. Hideki was under the impression that a war with America was impossible to be avoided‚ so he prepared Japan to hit America with a HUGE knock-out punch. This was a very strategic move on Hideki’s part that would eliminate
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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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he was an American warship Commodore who in 1854 sailed to Japan and presented letter to the Japanese from the US president asking that Japan open its ports to trade. Impressed by the American show of the strength‚ the shogun agreed to the Treaty of Kanagawa‚ ending his country’s long period of isolation. b) Treaty of Kanagawa – the shogun agreed to open two Japanese ports to American ships. The US soon won other trading rights with Japan. In time Great Britain‚ France and Russia gained similar trading
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democracy was not eh suitable choice of government to Japan‚ put hope on military‚ give military an opportunity to restore authoritarian rule. --Fail to protect the rights of its own country‚ brought humiliation to people (e.g. Paris Peace Conference: western powers rejected Japan’s demand for racial equality to be included in the Covenant of the League of Nations Washington Conference: Japan was forced to return Shangdong to China‚ Japan had to accept a lower tonnage of capital ships to the
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On the 2nd September 1945‚ Japan formally surrendered to the Allied nations‚ indicating the cessation of nearly 4 years of the Pacific War. The American representative MacArthur spoke of ‘a better world emerging out of the carnage of the past’‚ and therefore the Occupation began. Despite the USA’s and minor allies conflicting aims for occupation‚ between 1945 and 1951‚ they set out to garrison a peace settlement within Japan‚ spearheaded by MacArthur and his 3 key aims of demilitarisation‚ disarmament
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Why did Japan succeed in modernising and industrialising in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while China and Korea failed to do so? During the late nineteenth century‚ China‚ Japan and Korea all had the opportunity to modernise and industrialise. The leaders of each country had died which provided a fresh start for new leaders and new ideas of reform but it was only Japan who succeeded to successfully modernise and industrialise due to a number of factors‚ leaving its neighbours
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History essay Using these four passages and your own knowledge‚ asses the view that Japan was driven into war with the western powers in 1941 by American policies. Both interpretations B and D prove that America was the only driving force that caused a war in the Pacific. The oil embargo that America enforced in 1940 was an incentive for Japan‚ a country very reliant on imports of which most primarily came from America feeding its daily usage of 12‚000 tons of oil‚to declare war on the country
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