Despite the moves made by the Pope Pius XII for the Vatican City to remain neutral in the World War II, the actions he made were seen as a great violation of stance.
Dower argues that the hatred between the two led to the escalation of racial intolerance as each side sought to defeat the other. The hatred for the Japanese led to the arrest of Japanese Americans [...]
In the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, when Great Britain declared war to Germany the Australian troops headed to Europe to assist their allies, but a new threat occurred in the South [...]
Like most of the British colonies around the globe that participated in the Second World War, Australia did not take part in repelling the Germans from invading the Middle East and Europe to serve her [...]
Throughout the history of the United States Army, the army staff sergeant major has been considered as the head of the noncommissioned officers.
After the massive defeat and deaths of the German army in the war that took place in the eastern side, it was evident that the traditional groups of the army were no longer working as [...]
The author traces the cause of the war from the Europeans and the Germans who were the key participants in the crisis.
Therefore, to evaluate the reasons that guided the American government in their successful attempt at mass genocide of the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one must consider not only the political implications behind the actions [...]
In the book, Muth introduces the concept of Command Culture and how it was effective in assisting the German Soldiers during the war.
Later on in 1944, the Supreme Court supported the consistency with the law of the incarceration orders, at the same time as maintaining that the orders that discriminated persons of Japanese origin were a separate [...]
The validity of this suggestion can be illustrated, in regards to what historians know about the influences of the mentioned countries on WW2: Sweden Up until the year 1944, Sweden used to be in the [...]
Omer Bartov's Hitler's army: Soldiers, Nazis, and war in the Third Reich represents a good example of such a literature, because in it, the author had made a point in trying to reveal the conceptual [...]
For example, Stofli suggests that the reason why Hitler attacked USSR in June of 1941 is that he thought that this would help him winning the war against Britain and that he sought the expansion [...]
She uses her memory of the human tragedy she witnesses in Hiroshima as a means to forget the pain she has felt since the demise of her lover.
It is believed that Roosevelt wanted to engage Japan in war and the only way to achieve this was by allowing Japan to attack the Harbor.
There are two main reasons that prompted the United States to use the atomic bomb against Japan; the refusal to surrender by Japan and the need for the US to assert itself.
Some studies reported that the war caused around 62 to 80 million deaths, and this made it the deadliest fighting in the global history in terms of reported number of deaths compared with the world [...]
The reason why the United States was compelled to employ the use of a more lethal weapon in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan has been at the heart of many scholarly writings.
This was a military base of the US military forces during the Second World War. Japan was weary of the US and wanted to suppress it as it was the only threat to Japan's conquest.
The consequences of the war had an impact on the political affairs of the world and resulted in a major change of the course of the history of the world.
There is a memorable scene in the movie, which depicts Japanese high-ranking politicians in the midst of deciding of how to deal with the situation: "America is against the war we are waging in China...
However, Russia did get ready for the war immediately and due to the inadequate resources by the Germans, they had to lose the war to Russians.
The encoding capabilities of the German communication by the Allies were of big help in exposing German's plans especially on counterattack enabling the Allies to strategize on how to counter the attack. Air operations by [...]
When it comes to discussing whether it was necessary to drop atomic bombs on Japan's cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, it is important to take into account the specifics of geopolitical [...]
The devastation of the war was mainly due to the advanced military weapons used, from the infantry on the front line to the ships in the sea and the planes in the sky, these weapons [...]
Involvement in the war was expected because the US was against Japan's entry into Middle East, and colonization of Africa and certain regions of Europe by Germany and Italy. The US was greatly perturbed after [...]
Considering the problem of the effects of the World War II in the long term period it is also possible to find the remnants of the humanistic effect, if it was, or to come across [...]
The Second World War was the greatest world unrest in the history of humanity. The war came at the time in which the global economy was recovering from a deep depression.
This concept was crucial in the Second World War in Europe as there was a "large-scale mobilization of state resources for war to anticipate the modern concept of total war that was typically associated with [...]
After the First World War, the victors stated that they would do everything to preserve peace in the world. The countries that resisted Hitler's ambition were referred to as the Allies of the Second World [...]
The invasion of Iwo Jima by US forces was precipitated by the success of the offensive against Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands.
Studies on the Second World War have yielded varied perspectives; according to Erdelja, "there is no other experience that was more crucial to the development of the U.S.and Europe in the 20th century than the [...]
Pearl Harbor is very significant in the history of the World War II because it is the place where the war started. This was another factor that contributed to the World War II, which began [...]
This paper is an examination of the causes of involvement of America and Germany in the WWII. He is, in fact, said to be the person responsible for the start of the war.
The most important and drastic outcome of this event was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by America. This was the outcome of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The image of the shore in the movie resembles the real picture as it was then. The movie pictures a cemetery at the Normandy province, which resembles the exact one in France, referred to as [...]
The initial attempt by the United States to take over Japan was fruitless as the Japanese solders were well equipped and well trained so much so that they overpowered the American marine solders and won [...]
It is important to note that, achievement of such expectations was one of the hardest things to achieve for Japan, because of the great powers that America had over this region.
The first planes from the Royal Air force started the journey from 1,100 kilometers away and they were tasked with the role of identifying Dresden and releasing Magnesium flares to light up the areas that [...]
The purpose of this easy was to determine the extent to which the bombing of Dresden in 1945 qualifies to be a war crime.
The department of national defence worked hand in hand with the Canadian Red Cross and the immigration branch and was responsible for the movement of the war brides and their children to Canada.
It is clear that the holocaust was a war crime by the fact that, these were innocent civilians who were targeted specifically because of the hatred that Hitler had for them.
This battle was and still remains one of the most significant occurrences of contemporary history as the united forces shattered the core of the Nazi troops and as a result speeding up the devastation of [...]