“Godzilla” movie, released in Japan in 1954, is not only entertaining but also conveys a serious theme still relevant today — the horrors of nuclear weapons. Japan suffered tremendously when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII, a tragedy that killed over 200,000 people. Godzilla, or Gorjira, is about coping with and taking responsibility for unbelievable manmade tragedy. It deals with the effect of nuclear radiation on Japan - in this case, problems
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How World War II Changed Warfare How World War II Changed Warfare A man wearing olive drab pants and jacket slowly props the muzzle of his Thompson .45 Caliber Sub Machine Gun on a window seal of a half decimated apartment building. He lines up his sights and waits for the signal. He wears the “Screaming Eagle” patch of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Inserted into Bastogne, France via aerial assault from a C-47 Sky Train, in December 1944. Barrels pointed downward onto
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the worse from each other. The Japanese had seen sixty-six of their significant urban areas and major cities demolished by the fierce fire of bombs and reduced to ashes. The twin bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 cannot escape many people's mind. At their occurrences, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings brought an unexpected end to what has been known as a 'war without mercy', yet the choice to surrender was contradicted by military leaders until the Emperor interceded and broke a
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justified their imperialist practices by portraying a democracy ran country that focuses on peace, power, and being an example of peace for the rest of the world. And also by showing its strengths politically with Pearl Harbor, militarily with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and economically with the Executive Order 9066. Spanish American War relates to this would be when President Mckinley wanted to step in to help Cuba against Spain (The White Man’s Burden). America was powerful enough to gain control
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In 1938, three chemists in Berlin discovered how to split a uranium atom, and with it, they learned that the energy from this could be enough to be used as a bomb. Soon after that, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, expressing his concerns that the Germans might successfully build such a bomb. President Roosevelt agreed to start a nuclear research program, which only moved slowly at first. Over the next two years, the “critical mass” of uranium needed was determined
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December 7th, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor On the morning of the seventh of December 1941, during the time of WWII, the United States was awoken by a surprise strike attack by an unknown force. The Naval Base in Pearl Harbor was attacked by the military forces of Japan. This attack essentially led to the United States’ involvement in the Second World War. During this time, Japanese aggression was consuming different parts of Asia and the Japanese military wanted to continue to grow. The United
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the worse from each other. The Japanese had seen sixty-six of their significant urban areas and major cities demolished by the fierce fire of bombs and reduced to ashes. The twin bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 cannot escape many people's mind. At their occurrences, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings brought an unexpected end to what has been known as a 'war without mercy', yet the choice to surrender was contradicted by military leaders until the Emperor interceded and broke a
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“The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.” This quote, by Richard M. Nixon, describes the fear and tension that plagued the U.S. citizens during the period known as the Cold War. As discussed in “The Cold War: Chronicle of America’s Wars”, a book by Josepha Sherman, the Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. This consisted of an arms race, where the two
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Britain and France announce war against Germany. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centers (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. (Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II)
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time to fix. Baghdad was a city of Arab civilization but after the war it is not. In Libya Algadafi and his army destroyed Bin Ghazi by bombing. Berlin was destroyed after World War II. Pollution is another effect of war. It is still remain after wars. In 1990 the Gulf War produced a lot of pollution and waste in the Arab Gulf Sea. Pollution after Hiroshima bomb is the reason for many diseases like cancer. Another example of pollution is the Agent Orange herbicide that US army used on Vietnam
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