No, the US wasn’t justified. Even secretary of war Henry Lewis Stimson was not sure the bombs were needed to reduce the need of an invasion: “Japan had no allies; its navy was almost destroyed; its islands were under a naval blockade; and its cities were undergoing concentrated air attacks.” The United States still had many industrial resources to use against Japan, and thus it was essentially defeated. Rear Admiral Tocshitane Takata concurred that B-29s “were the greatest single factor in forcing Japan's surrender”, while Prince Konoye already thought Japan was defeated on 14 February 1945 when he met emperor Hirohito. A combination of thoroughly bombing blockading cities that were economically dependent on foreign sources for food and raw
Before America entered World War I in April, 1917, they acted as suppliers for Europe. At the time America wanted to remain neutral until Germany became responsible for destroying several United States ships. President Woodrow Wilson warned Germany of retaliation if they continued to sink their vessels. In February, 1915 German announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zones around Britain. Germany continued to violate the United States demands and continued to sink vessels and kill the innocent Americans onboard.
After the December 1941 defeat of the German army in its attempt to take Moscow and the entry of the United States into World War II on December 11, the German authorities understood that Germany would have to fight a long war. Responding to increasingly acute labor shortages and the need to produce armaments, machinery, airplanes, and ships to replace German losses, the SS established more SS-owned firms. It also signed contracts with state and private firms to produce goods and provide labor for the German armaments and related industries. A famous example of cooperation between the SS and private industry was the I.G. Farben company's establishment of a synthetic rubber plant in 1942 at Auschwitz III (Monowitz).
FDR Leadership During World War II, President Roosevelt took office after Hoover which is known as our worst President, and Roosevelt showed The United States great leadership through the war. President Roosevelt led The United States through two major crisis: The Great Depression and World War II. On March 11, 1941 Roosevelt had Congress pass the Lend-Lease Act, which provided Britain and Russia with arms via lease but with no conditions for repayment. As the president said, "When your neighbor's house is on fire, one does not haggle over the price to put it out, the hose is readily loaned and the price is figured later." FDR is considered the number one president of these United States and was in office longer than any other president
3. Had McKinley indeed “exhausted every effort” short of war, as he claimed in his statement to Congress? Yes because Spain was still bombing Cuba and did not listen to the U.S. Pg. 165 Woodrow Wilson Declaration of War against Germany (1917) 1. What did Wilson mean when he claimed, “We have no quarrel wit the German people”?
My name is Natsuki Momoko. I was just 12 years old on February 19, 1942, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering all Japanese Americans to be excluded from society and put in “relocation centers” in fear that we were spies for our enemies in the war. Any American of Japanese descent was a suspected threat to the United States during World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. None of us were given a defense or trial. We were sent based solely on race and nationality.
Russian Revolution -Terms Czar Nicholas II- last Russian czar; clumsy and ineffective leader; bad at decision making; abdicated the throne; July 1918 executed by the Bolsheviks along with his family; tried to hold back cultural changes; Economic developments Encouraged growth of industries by investing national funds Ordered tariffs to protect Russian products from foreign trade Encouraged foreign investment Bloody Sunday-January 22, 1905 massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia; unarmed demonstrators trying to get better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature; provoked a wave of strikes across the country; Imperial Guard open fired when they went to Nicolas’s palace; By October 1905, Czar promised parliament and more freedom Abdicate- to resign as a ruler VI Lenin- founder of Bolshevik party organizer of October Revolution armed workers, soldiers, and sailors stormed Winter Palace (headquarters of provisional government) bloodless Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary delegates withdrew from Congress Made Russia into a Communist
After a few minutes of debate we decided to change our view on WWII by declaring that we were taking sides against Japan in WWII. This was the turning point of WWII because the US had not been involved in the war until this point. Within a matter of days there were people enlisting for war and more being drafted? We also started shutting down small businesses to go and work in factories to produce war products. These products included ammunition and rifles.
German U-boats sank British passenger liners killing Americans. This was condemned by the U. S. but remained neutral after Germany apologized and vowed to not attack anymore ships without warning first. The British then intercepted the Zimmerman telegram which made Germany more of a threat since it said if Mexico declared war on the U. S. then Germany would return U. S. land back to Mexico. This convinced the president that, “the war was, indeed, a defense of democracy against German aggression.” (Roark, 692) The final incident that led us to enter the war was when German subs sank five American ships off Britain. No longer could the U. S. stand by and watch as Germany attacked and killed our people.
In response to the Berlin Blockade, the U.S. carried out a massive effort to supply the two million Berlin citizens with food, fuel and other goods by air force over 6 months. The airlift forced Soviets to end blockade in 1949. China then plunged into a full scale Civil War that was beyond control of the U.S government. Mao and Stalin signed a Sino-Soviet treaty of mutual assistance that placed China in the Russian orbit. The American response to the communist triumph states that the department refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new regime in Beijing and the U.S focused on Japan as its main Ally in Asia.