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World War 2 (Pacific War (US v. Japan) (Japan wanted natural resources…

- - - - USS Arizona survived because they were suspicious of the Japanese but most Americans ships were in the same harbor
      - Japan had reason to think the Americans could be intimidated into staying out of the war because they have different ideals when it comes to training and supplying soldiers and creating weapons
      - President Roosevelt declares war 24 hours after Pearl Harbor
  - - - the Japanese are ordered to fight to the death but Okinawa civilians are uneducated and convinced that the Americans are monsters who eat babies and kill their parents
  - - - Japanese do not surrender even after warnings
        -big civilian city with industries that support the war effort
      - -70,000 are killed immediately
        -48,000 buildings are destroyed
        -100,000 people die from radiation poisoning and cancer later
    - - even after Hiroshima, the Japanese refuse to surrender
        -Americans use a smaller bomb
        -the city is chosen for the same reason as Hiroshima
      - 40,000 killed immediately
        -60,000 are left with fatal injuries and no medical care
        -100,000 people die from radiation poisoning and cancer later
    - - General MacArthur is disrespectful and tells the Emperor to say over the radio that he is not God and he uses the “setting sun” while writing the new Constitution that makes them a democracy, they will also get rid of their army while the Americans protect the island
- - - - 1941, British take 130,000 prisoners but Hitler sent tanks as reinforcement (General Erwin Rommel) that forced the British to retreat to Libya
      - June 1942; Rommel takes Tobruk, Libya by force which is a severe loss for the Allies
- - - - Hitler looked to Moscow but he reached in winter where the Germans needed to retreat because they were unprepared for the temperature, 500,000 Germans died and millions of Soviets died because Hitler would not allow for their retreat
- - - - German use of panzers
      - Germans are better trained and equipped
      - psychologically debilitating because all countries are under attack, there is no where to retreat
- - - - The Allies then begin to firebomb as Russia retakes their land from the Nazis
      - The Allies then invade Sicily then up the boot of Italy but Italy is very mountainous
        The Americans get stopped at the very narrow mountain pass
    - - This gives the Allies a foothold in northern France even though many soldiers die
      - ⅖ of the beaches are total chaos because the Nazis see them coming and cause thousands of deaths
- - - - Social
        
        Universal suffrage and human rights were enforced
        
        The media faced lots of censorship to anti-American language and controversial race superiority issue
        
        Shinto and the state were separated
      - Political
        
        Japan was not allowed to have an army or lead any wars
        
        With the new constitution in 1947, the Emperor was not executed like many others but lost all political and military power
      - Economic
        
        Many of the larger cities were destroyed which caused food shortages for several years
        
        MacArthur broke up power concentration in police, education, company ownership, and land ownership