...Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor can be argued as the most important event of World War II because of the after effects that changed the whole war. The Pearl Harbor attack caused America to become a part of WWII and inevitably win the war. In only hours after the attack America found itself in full force against not only Japan but Germany too. Germany, Japan, and Italy were in the pact together fighting alongside and trying to overtake Europe.Questioned honor, lack of resources, and military fear are the most relevant reasons Pearl Harbor was attacked. Honour is a small word with a very large meaning especially the Japanese. The Japanese valued honor above anything else except their country and emperor. “ subject is to be loyal to the emperor in disregard me that to self” Doc. A.The...
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...conflict that led to their decision to attack pearl harbor.On a sunday morning of december 7th, 1941 japan bombed a naval base at pearl harbor near honolulu, hawaii. 2,403 American died and 1,178 were wounded since the U.S didn’t know they were coming.The japanese attacked pearl harbor because, they wanted a new order, U.S put an embargo on them and because they were losing power. One reason for the attack on pearl harbor was wanting a new order. As stated in document A japan believed that “Japan is the fountain source of the yamato race.” japan believed that they were higher than the other countries in Asia.they wanted a new order so they can rule and they believed that old order which was europe and America, will lose their power.This caused japan to attack because in order for them to get power they would need to destroy the other countries, and show their superiority. A second reason...
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...There was a naval base in Honolulu Hawaii called Pearl Harbour. This naval base had many ships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, and many other ships that the military used. The base mostly used as a fueling station so the ships can make it to Asia. They needed the fueling station so they could get to Asia and trade with other surrounding countries. On December 7, 1941, Japan sent a surprise attack on the base to destroy the ships to take over land in the Oceania and Southeastern China region. The attack had a huge number of casualties such as 2,400 Americans had lost their lives that day and another 1,000+ were injured. The Japanese didn’t do much as somehow the navy managed to bring some ships above the water again and this event officially got America into WW2. In response, America had put people of Japanese descent into little camps. In my opinion, I thought it was unconstitutional to put people in these camps with concern for their safety....
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...Critical Analysis of Sound from Selected Scenes in the Film Pearl Harbor The genre of the film Pearl Harbor is a combination of an action/drama/romance war film and was released in 2001. The film was directed by Michael Bay. Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace produced the movie. The screen play was also written by Randall Wallace. The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. Pearl Harbor was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2001.Pearl Harbor was nominated best sound editing, best sound mixing, best visual effects, and best original song. Among the four awards Pearl Harbor took home the Academy Award for best sound mixing. The film was also nominated at the Golden Globe Awards for best original song and best original score. The score for Pearl Harbor was composed by Hans Zimmer. It is Hans Zimmer’s original score that will be the basis analysis for non diagetic sound presented in this paper. Both diagetic and non diagetic sound are of importance in this film. (Wikipedia). The film Pearl Harbor takes place in the 1940’s and continues on till then end of World War II. Pearl Harbor tells the story of two best friends Danny and Rafe through out the war and their love life over the course of the war. While in the military Rafe meets a navy nurse named Evelyn while getting his physical examination to receive his pilot wings. Evelyn and Rafe begin dating and eventually fall in love. While they are dating Rafe volunteers to fly and serve with the Royal Air...
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...James Harold Doolittle Edmond Pukaj Spartan College of Aeronautics Abstract James Doolittle was a man with an outstanding resume in the American Air Force and one of Americas most well-known aviation pilots whose contributions in the Second World War was extremely crucial to increasing American morale. Doolittle also played a major role in creating new instrumentations to improve night flying and flying in hazardous weather. Doolittle broke and set many records in the aviation world and made the impossible possible with his extraordinary flying skills. Made himself a role model for upcoming generations of pilots. General James “Jimmy” Harold Doolittle was a very important individual in American aviation history. Many recognize Jimmy Doolittle as the individual responsible for coordinating the planes that took off on the aircraft carrier The Hornet, for the raid on Japan in the Second World War. James Doolittle was placed in charge of defining which plane to use for this mission. He decided on the B-25 plane determining that it had the highest potential to make the short take-off of the Hornet. Doolittle was known as being a daredevil, scholar, pilot and General. Doolittle’s particular expertise and passion was for flying. He is considered to be the American aviation pioneer. Although his flying expertise is what he is most commonly credited for his accomplishments far exceed this criterion (Daso, 2003) James Doolittle was born on December 14, 1896 in Alameda, California...
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...and believe by some people, relatives are slaughtered. No, we are not referring to another event such events at Pearl Harbor or other atrocities. We are referring to the slaughter at Taiji Cove. More than 20,000 dolphins are killed or rounded up and sold around the world for aquarium display from this location each year alone. The smartest animals of the sea and our closest relatives; why kill them. In a season that last from September to March. The local government places a quota on rounding up dolphins and small whales 2,026 per season (Wakatsuk, 2014). Tiaji locals believe it is customary perfectly fine to kill the dolphin. According to CNN locals believe it is no different than killing other animals for meat. (Wakatsuk, 2014). Organizations such as Sea Shepherd are leading the way to end the practice and Japanese leaders that to continue only brings shame and dishonor about the image of Japan (Sea Sheperd, 2014). Reference Wakatsuk, Y. (2014). CNN. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/20/world/asia/japan-dolphin-hunt/index.html Sea Sheperd. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.seashepherd.org/world-love-for-dolphins-day.html Slide 1 JAPAN Known for: Amazing Architecture Beautiful Sceneries Best Automobile manufacturing processes in the world Darker side to Japan • Not Event such as Peral harbor • Slaughter at Taiji Cove • >20,000 Dolphins killed o Food o Aquarium market across the...
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...Connor Cohn 3/4/11 Curry, period 4 Final Aircraft Carriers in WWII Many of World War II’s greatest battles were fought at sea, making naval technologies crucial to all sides. Many kinds of ships, such as battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers, had been used in previous wars, but the global nature of World War II made naval battles especially important. These vessels ranged from heavily armed warships to numerous support craft such as fuel ships and troop landing boats. Of all the ships used in the war, aircraft carriers were the largest. Thus, how and why were aircraft carriers so effective in World War II, specifically how was it more effective than a battleship, and how did both Japan and the US utilize this revolution in technology? An aircraft carrier is a ship whose primary purpose is to bring airplanes closer to distant battle areas. Since most World War II aircraft had a range of just a few hundred miles, it was necessary to bring the aircraft to the battlefront, and using a ship to do so made a lot of sense in the Pacific, where much of the fighting took place on islands and along coastal areas. The first true aircraft carriers were built by the Japanese in the 1920’s. Japan remained an innovator in aircraft carrier design and construction during the years leading to World War II, operating nine aircraft carriers by 1941. Their largest carriers of the war were the Akagi and Kaga, each capable of launching over 90 aircraft (doc. Navy), only 25% of these...
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...World War II: The Internment of Japanese Americans Josh White Sothern New Hampshire University WORLD WAR II: THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS The topic of Japanese American Internment during the Second World War is a very important part of American history.It happened during the Second World War when nations were against each other and after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Japan automatically became an enemy to the United States thus leading to the government of the day led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 to take several measures against Japan and its origins mainly living in the United states. What followed was an executive order by the president to allow forceful removal of Americans of Japanese origin from their homes and incarcerated into camps.The government had feared another attack by the Japanese would be imminent and so they had to come up with some measures to get rid of Japanese spies that were living in the west coast. This led to one of the lowest moments in American history as these camps were an absolute human rights violation to these Japanese Americans. Most of these Japanese Americans who had been taken to these camps were actually legal American citizens thus showing that this move was based on racial stereotypes and propaganda that was being peddled during that time referring to the Japanese as less of human beings. This incarceration seriously affected these Japanese Americans...
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...as a capitalistic society stop being so self-involved with money and possessions. We have to realize that history repeats itself in one way or another. Each generation needs to stop and take the time to learn from parents, grandparents, and great grandparents about their lives. The lives of those before you help shaped the ways and methods of thinking for the next. This could be passing along family history or traditions. I have often regretted not hearing more of my father’s stories of his time in the military. He was in, what was then known as, the Army Air Corps. This was also during the time that segregation wasn’t fully integrated into the military system and society as well. My father was also in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. My grandfather also was in World War II as well. From what I was told my great grandfather was in World War I. The Second part of my philosophy is the social aspect....
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...World War II: Pearl Harbor Cynthia Klabbers His 204 Professor Macek June 14, 2010 On Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a tragic event in American history which led to the US into World War II. I will discuss the events that led up to the attack and the attack itself. I will also discuss the possibility of our government letting this happen. It is hard to accept or to believe, but there are questions that many people ask about this tragedy. How could our government not have known this was to happen? This question has been asked time and again with no definitive answer. I will discuss this further in my paper. I will also discuss the Japanese-American Internment camps that were formed after the attack. The US and Japan were not on the best of terms before the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria and a year later converted it to Manchukuo. “This was a direct threat to the Versailles system and the open door.” (Davidson, et al. 2008, p. 763). The US would refuse to recognize Japan’s takeover of Manchuria. In 1933 Japan withdrew from the League of Nations because of being condemned for their takeover and bombing of Shanghai. “The seeds of war in Asia had been sown.” (Davidson, et al. 2008, p. 763). We also need to remember the embargo America had on Japan on July 24, 1941. “Japan stood ready to conquer the entire Southeast Asian peninsula and the oil-rich Dutch Indies.” (Davidson, et al., 2008, p. 769). This angered the...
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...Yoshiko Uchida wrote her memoir to explain her being mistreated, held captive, and uncomfortable in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. She conveys this purpose by explaining what she had been through during this time of grief. These experiences include: The women of the family clearing their home without their father’s guidance, deciding which things they needed during encampment and which they had to sell or give away, and herself sitting quietly in her stripped bedroom, sorting through the clippings, letters, and poems she had to throw away. She writes, “My sister and I were angry that our country could deprive us of our civil rights in so cavalier a manner, but we had been raised to respect and to trust those in authority.” This quote proves her struggles by letting us know how cruel her country treated her, but also how well she was raised in it. Yoshiko Uchida also wrote this memoir for young Japanese Americans to know something of their past, but as well for all Americans, with the hope that through the knowledge of their past, they will never allow another group of people in America to be sent into a desert exile ever again. She writes again, “The confluence of all these, coupled with the fear and hysteria exacerbated by severe United States losses in the Pacific war, eventually combined to make the evacuation a tragic reality for us.” This was a horrible event for the Japanese Americans. With all that being said, Yoshiko Uchida wrote her memoir to show...
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...The first article is written in support of the Japanese internments, that were made my President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the country of Japan. The author describes the removal of Japanese-Americans, from their homes and communities, as a demonstration of their loyalty to the United States. At that time, that internment camps were made in the United States, there was a growing anti-Japanese sentiment throughout the country. Americans were afraid and angered by Japanese, subsequently they decided to put them into camps, so they would not cause them any harm. The author does his best to try and pursue Japanese-Americans to just leave their homes not even try to fight it. The author mentions that yes, it might be an “inconvenient” and maybe “even work serious hardships”, but overall...
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...Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack. It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. Yesterday...
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...Japanese Interment Camps In 1941, the Japanese Army flew over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and bombed the U.S. military base stationed there. After this attack, many Americans were scared that there were some Japanese spies living among them. Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order to relocate all Japanese – Americans to one of ten internment camps on the western side of the United States. The U.S. Military is not justified for doing this because they put many innocent Americans into these camps and they were difficult to live in. Right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, many Americans freaked out. Many thought that some Japanese immigrants very actually spies living among them, working for the Japanese Government....
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...After the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, many Americans began to question Japanese Americans loyalty, fearing they may act as spies or help Japan attack the United States. What seems to be in response to the attack at Pearl Harbor, February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066. This order allowed military officials to create military areas along the West Coast for enemies of America, as a matter of national defense “prescribe Military Areas whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense […] prescribing regulations for the conduct and control of alien enemies.” The President saw the Executive Order 9066 as a “military necessity” despite the Munson Report that told him other wise....
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