... a Japanese girl who grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s, showed the readers another side of the life of immigrants in the United States. Her story reflected the gap between the Issei and Nisei – first and second generation, and the difficulties of being a Japanese American during ... this time period. In addition, the Japanese relocation to Idaho after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 1941 presented one family's strength when ... . The first thing to notice about Monica's story is the distinct gap between two generations. Nisei are torn between consenting to their Japanese anc...

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... Japan by prohibiting exports of steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel to Japan, due to Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. In response, the Japanese signed a neutrality treaty with the Soviet Union to prevent any fighting with them or Britain so that they could put all their energy into taking ... Southeast Asia. In June 1941, Japan forces occupied southern Indochina and in response, the Netherlands, Britain, and the U.S. cut off all exports to the Japanese, leaving them with very little steel, iron, oil, and other vital resources. In extreme anger, Japan tried many ways to fin...

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... that took place nearly seventy-three years ago. The first scene that catches my eye automatically is how the film lacks a clear reason why the Japanese Empire decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. I immediately thought of all those viewers who knew little about the history behind this attack and just go by ... the film's false accommodations. The only explanation the film gave was when the Japanese admiral described the mission. He stated that they're going to attack Pearl Harbor since America cut off their oil supply and they were living ... in the events of history. It could have done better ...

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... the action taken. History is made to be used has a reference for people who didn't witness it or for people who did. It is a way of saying that the past generation made some mistake and history is a way of making it not repeat itself. According to Random History, World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. This is true ... Harbor which was the event that led to the involvement of the United States in World War II. It many Japanese lives because they were taken away from their home. This happened because the United States was scared of the situation whereby Japanese-Americ...

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... some questions for me. They said that the new main graphic was nice, but that I should take it down because "it was over." WHAT! OVER! I guess some people in my generation just don't see the magnitude of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. TV reporters have compared it to Pearl Harbor. The fact is that this attack was much worse than ... Pearl Harbor. In Pearl Harbor, the Japanese, using warplanes, attacked a military base. The attack on Sept. 11 was an attack on CIVILIANS with OUR AIRCRAFT! The planning and resources that it must have taken to execute the ... I hear is people talking abo...

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... learned from our mistakes so it won't happen again. It also shows that women have learned from the past where they were badly treated, and have blocked the repetition from generation to generation by protesting and changing habits. Another example is the Atomic bomb. On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after ... the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware ... ...

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