... nations that are peaceful and cordial (" Foreign Service", Encarta) The Foreign Service was established in 1924 by combining diplomatic personnel concerned primarily with government relations. It is responsible for gathering information conducive to the formation of American foreign policies (Raynor 103). As soon as the world was ... a battleship for Stalin, aero-engines for France" ("America and World War II, "http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/socials/gr11. htm #WWII) Japan relied on fuel, oil and iron imports. Germany was of the US's "most important markets" during the 1930's. Between 1936 a...

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... strong opinion on how to stop unemployment so that their nation could recover from the Great Depression. They both wanted the nation to get involved because the government could not do it alone. Great Britain wanted to use the resources that they already had to open new markets to the world. This would allow ... we come to the next two nations we realize that more jobs and more government help seem to not be so important to the leaders of Germany and Japan. Germany is more concerned with building up the armies and using the government's expenditures on the funding of the army and gettin...

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... the aggressive powers. The aggressive powers were called The Axis; they included Italy, Germany and Japan. Those countries formed an alliance because of their similarities: they were all ruled under a totalitarian government , they shared the same goals, they were very aggressive and ambitious countries in search of new ... and assault them verbally. When the Japanese attacked and killed many people on a US gunboat in Asia called the Panay, the US did nothing. Japan attacked and occupied various islands in Pacific. The Japanese invaded the following places in the Pacific: Burma, Philippi...

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... against the Versailles Treaty. R: Chamberlain wanted to maintain possible negotiations with Germany so he gave into their demands and in France, a change in their government prevented them doing anything and Germany had no contest. Munich Conference (3) A: September 29, 1938. Hitler invited the leaders from Italy, France, and ... as they retreated. They were waiting for winter to take its tolls on the German soldiers. Lend-Lease Act. March 1941 (9) A: U.S. government passed the lend-lease act to supply countries with goods for war that were "allies". R: Germany responded by sinking any Am...

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... a process of demilitarization. He achieved this quickly leaving Japan with a small police force. He then brought war criminals to trial. Out of the 25 defendants, 7 were put to death. He then turned his focus to the democratization of Japan. MacArthur and his political advisers drew up a constitution for a new government. It changed the government to a constitutional monarchy, leaving the divine emperor of ... Japan with no power. The new constitution left the power in Japan to the people. A two house parliament was set up. People over the age of ... 20, including women, were allowed t...

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... a general context) if a nation insists on attacking another, the other nations should combine to compel it to stop by military measures. There was support for both Italy and Japan's actions. Some saw Japan as a force against Bolshevism in China and revolutionary nationalism in India' while others pointed out Britain had opposed Abyssinia's entry into the league as a primitive, badly governed, slave ... a barbarous affair', Clement Attlee insisted there was little point in trying to defeat Fascism from without. As for Churchill he pointed out that Japan gives a very considerable measure o...

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... six treaties, the Treaty of Versailles was by far the most prominent. It was written by the Allied powers, including Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, and Germany. The treaty was signed and ratified by every country involved with the exception of the United States. The ... increasing dominant German population. Hitler's dream of a third Reich would require a racial purity that rapidly grew anti-Semitic. He developed an extremely oppressive government revoking the German people of their own free will and thought. Hitler turned Germany into an extremely aggressive countr...

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... tariffs during the 1920's had reduced trade throughout the world and a reclining Europe and market all had serious affects on American economies. The federal government might have prevented the stock market crash and the Depression by more careful regulation of business and the stock market. Herbert Hoover was the president at ... marked the beginning of the second Great War. The major players in World War II were Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary which formed the Axis. Later Japan played an important role to the Axis. On the Allied side Britain, France, and USSR made up the good guys. ...

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... United States could have entered the war sooner and then have probably saved more lives. To understand this we must look at both the people and government's point of view. Just after war broke out in Europe, President Roosevelt hurriedly called his cabinet and military advisors together. There it was agreed ... 's 3600 and Russia's 10,000. American military Aviation in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. Major Eisenhower, who was later Supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Second World War. As shown to Roosevelt the United States...

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... had discovered Russia had immensely affected their status, as a result Western Europe had more of a reason to not trust Russia. On December 7, 1941 Japan started an extensive scale assault on the American Naval base, which was situated at the pearl harbor near to Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese announced war on ... of the radiation. After three days another B-29 dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagaski, which killed around 40,000 individuals . Hirohito, head of Japan surrendered and reported the nations surrender on August 15 over the radio. He did this in light of the fact that he knew he would ...

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... The allied powers, Britain, United States, and the Soviet Union, were going to fight against the Axis powers, which were Italy, Germany, and Japan. Focusing on the most powerful threat first, the Allied powers wanted to focus primarily on stopping Hitler. On June 6, 1944, the Allied powers poured ... States. How did the United States plan to escape such invasions? A strategy called "island hopping- was used by the United States to conquer Japan in small segments, invading selected islands. The United States successfully participated in the turning point of the war, by taking down Japane...

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... first move to help the economy. The United States loaned 800 million dollars to help rebuild the German economy. Using the new funds, the government installed modern tools into their factories and industries. The coal and iron production soon doubled and exports finally began to rise. By 1928 the total ... them died. Nationalist groups began to pop up, speaking out against the Allies for forcing them to pay these debts, also at the German government for paying them. While the economy was recovering from the setbacks it experienced from the Treaty of Versailles, the German army was also e...

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... , social and economic implications for all countries in the western world." To what extent do you agree with this statement? Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. The crash of the Wall Street stock exchange had significant political, social and economic consequences in numerous countries. However, the depression that followed the crash did not ... cases women were the preferred sex to hire because they were cheaper to employ and more prepared to work part-time. Malnutrition was yet another widespread affect of the depression. Japa...

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... 3600 and Russia's 10,000 . American military Aviation (AMA) in 1938 was able to produce only 1800, 300 less than Germany, and 1400 less than Japan. Major Eisenhower, who was later Supreme commander of the Allied forces in World War II, complained that America was left with only a shell of military establishment ... aspect that must be considered is the people's views and thoughts regarding the United States going to war. After all do not forget that the American government is there "for the people and by the people" and therefore the people's view did play a major role in this declaratio...

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... . He worked closely with Winston Churchill, and not so closely with Joseph Stalin to try to lead the allies to victory over Germany and Japan. There were many different decisions that needed to made during World War II, Roosevelt and his cabinet had to make calculated decisions on each and ... out more tanks and planes than any other country in the world. This was due to executive order 8802, which gave government jobs to African-Americans. Also, the U.S. broke many of Germany's and Japan' codes, and few of America's codes were due to code talkers who were Navaho Indians. Franklin D. Roos...

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... have entered the war sooner and therefore have saved many lives. To try to understand this we must look both at the people's and the government's point of view. Just after war broke out in Europe, President Roosevelt quickly called his cabinet and military advisors together. It was there that ... Russia's 10,000. American military Aviation (AMA) in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. It was evident to Roosevelt the United states military was in! no way prepared to enter this European crisis. One very important additional thing that we ....

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... to his position as a dictator. For three years all of the Soviet Union's people lived in fear, this included members of the Communist Party, the government, military personnel and even his secret police themselves. During this time over 15 million people were arrested and over 3 million of them were killed either ... the war through acts done by the Japanese. The United States boycotted all Japanese imports and Roosevelt cut of all trade between the foreign nation. Japan was angered by this act and soon realized that by the United States cutting off trade, they did not have fuel to run t...

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... . At what is known as The Beer Hall Putsch a man by the name Kahr was giving a speech in front of some 3,000 supporters of the Bavarian government. Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." The "revolution" began when Hitler lied to the people ... 35). By the summer of 1923, the Nazi party had grown to 150,000 members. Hitler knew this was the right time to take over the government. On November 11,1923, Hitler and his 3,000 men marched to Berlin in an attempt to take it over. The German police were waiting. This ... Denny). In...

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... axis powers from wrecking havoc in the east. Appeasement is the act of giving in to demands in return for peace. Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the axis powers. The combination of German aggression, Japanese attacks, and poor Italian leadership was getting to be too much for the United States ... of Versailles. Also, Germany signed the Axis Pact with Italy in 1936. Later in the same year, Germany agreed to the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan, which was led by military General Tojo. The agreement was aimed at Russia, and formed the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis. In 1937, Germany annexed ... th...

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... how harsh it was they would have held out and fought until the bitter end.(3) Originally ten leaders and diplomats from France, Britain, United States, Italy and even Japan met togethor. Shortly after though Japan left and only the "Big Four- remained, which was Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George plus Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando of Italy. There were 32 other smaller less important countries ... lost every single overseas colony to the Allies, this accounted for over 1,000,000 square miles. The colonies were split up between the Allies; Britain, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all...

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... Depression. No one expected a leader such as Adolph Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world's greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the ... left with no choice but to follow Hitler's plan. The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. Again the alliance system brought virtually...

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... Depression. No one expected a leader such as Adolph Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world's greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the ... left with no choice but to follow Hitler's plan. The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. Again the alliance system brought virtually...

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... mobilizations techniques increasing their chances of success against other nations. This was also left Franco in charge in which he set up a Fascists government. Also in 1930, Germany becomes more hostile and demanding. Hitler began reuniting former parts of Germany back together including Czechoslovakia, and engaging in ... and shocking to the public because the Western Democracies believed that killing civilians will make the enemy weaker. America decided to establish a bombing on Japan in hopes that they would surrender the war. On August 6, 1945 a bomb dropped on Hiroshima by an Ame...

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... to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party and quickly rose up the ranks from messenger to dictator in 1933 when he took over the German government. During his rule, Hitler established concentration camps in which he brought Jews, handicaps, homosexuals, elders, and Christians to kill. He ended up killing around ... navy from 30 to 95 warships, the air force from 36 to 8250 planes, and the army from 100,000 soldiers to almost a million soldiers. Japan and also Italy built up their armies because of the alliances with Germany they had before World War 2. "Causes of World War T...

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... the United States should have entered the war sooner, possibly saving thousands or even millions of lives. To try to understand we must look both at the people's and the government's point of view. Shortly after war broke out in Europe, President Roosevelt hurriedly called his cabinet and military advisors together. It was agreed that the United States should stay neutral ... were destroyed, 19 warships and 150 aircraft had been disabled, and 2,400 American lives were lost. As a direct result of this attack, the United States of America, declared war on Japan and their apprentice, Germa...

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