In their minds, war was the only option left. The Japanese appeared greedy and didn’t want to pull out of Indochina. They wanted to get their way and didn’t want to compromise on it. For hundreds of years the Japanese have had a superiority complex. No one will know exactly what Japans leaders were thinking at the time, but we can speculate.
Their relations were worsen during Potsdam conference. Truman were the new USA president, he is very different from Roosevelt, he was much more anti-communist and suspicious of Stalin, he saw USSR's action in Eastern Europe a preparation of taking over the rest of the world. In Potsdam conference, USSR and USA had disagreement on the future of Germany, USSR want to impose heavy reparation on Germany as fear a strong Germany would post a threat to USSR in future, however USA want Germany to rebuild as Truman did not want to repeat the mistake in Treaty of Versailles again. Stalin was determined to protect USSR interest, so he was dissatisfied as the part of Germany he was controlling was pooper and less industry. Stalin was also obsessed with the security of USSR so the successful test of atomic bomb in USA
Ms. Maria Hernandez Professor Dr. Botson History 1302 MF 10:00 AM -12:00 PM The reasons Japan attacked the US was for the access to natural resources such as oil, rubber, coal rice and tin through Southeast Asia. This also was a preventive action which kept the US Pacific Fleet ships from interfering with military actions. In addition, Japan and US had tensions and hostility since the 1920s and with the attacks on the USS Panay and the Nanking Massacre the Americans’ public opinion turn against Japan resulting in a Western fear of Japanese expansion. Furthermore, Japan invaded Indochina in 1940 leading US to stop shipments of airplanes, parts, machine tools and gasoline therefore Japan interpreted as an unfriendly act.
The startlingly fast modernisation of Japan after 1868 was seen as a threat to American interests in the Pacific. These worries about Asia and the ‘Yellow Peril’ were intensified by growing social tensions in the western states in the 1890s caused by fears of the extent of Chinese and Japanese immigration. * Theodore Roosevelt was made famous by his well published actions in the Spanish-American War (leading a charge of the ‘rough riders’ on the Cuban capital, Havana). As President he followed ambitious and interventionist policies abroad. * President McKinsley claimed to be motivated not by greed but by a ‘civilising mission’ to raise aid the development of less advanced peoples.
Today these two countries lack the ability to respect each other and are incapable of affectively resolving their problems. The hostile environment has become so horrendous that America no longer recognizes the Iranian government or political entity. For instance, America refuses to trade with Iran or allow other companies sell Iranian aircrafts. This email is due to the American government’s beliefs that Iran is part of the “Axis of evil” as stated by George
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Secondly, these people were persecuted in their homelands, so their way of life in America is way better than the life they had in Europe or wherever else they came from. Basically the life they are offered here is way better than the other. Thirdly, the European immigrants are actually closer to looking like “white”, so it’s really easier for them to assimilate than other Immigrants that didn’t migrated from Europe. It’s difficult for Chinese, Japanese and other non-Europeans that don’t fall under this category to assimilate. The first reason why I believe these people can become full American citizens is because they came here to have a better life and make the best out of their new life.
Today, it seems that media is censored so much that the American people have almost been made to be soft, which plays a completely different role in the ethics of a photojournalist. I know that this doesn’t really go off exactly what the chapter says, but, (in my opinion) I think that ethics is effected by the censorship, in the way that: Because we have been withheld from so much of what has been going on in the war that we’re in, we are finding it ethically wrong to run some of the more traumatic photos out of fear that the American people can’t handle the
Too much influence of America in the internal and external affairs of other countries has created a bad reputation of nation. America is now called a threat and not an ally. The interference of the UN in South Vietnam and to help them in a war against North Vietnam aggression has resulted in nothing. It is not because the deficiency of powers but because of the unreliable attitude of America. The super power wants to create stability in small and undeveloped Asian nations but do they have the time to think about the ways they are incorporating to set up their aim.
It was a social taboo for ordinary people to get too active in political issues, even criticizing and talking was not allowed. This cultural feature of Chinese immigrants formed a public opinion that they were not willing to be assimilated into American society in the early 20th century. As Siu (1952) noted in his famous article The Sojourner, Chinese immigrants, especially the first and second generation in the United States, were “sojourners” who stick to the cultural heritage of their own ethnic group and lived in isolation, hindering their assimilation to the community in which they lived, often for quite a long