US in WW2

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Japan signed the surrender document which officially ended World War 2

German concentration camps were mostly extermination or death camps designed to murder the inmates, primarily Jews. Some camps also sent out inmates to be used as slave labor. All the German camps were operated in total violation of international law and well outside all standard norms of behavior. The American camps were not "concentration" camps, but internment camps for Japanese, German & Italian nationals, as well as several thousand Japanese-Americans citizens and Japanese legal aliens from the west coast of the US. In accordance with international law, those foreign nationals from enemy countries (in the US when the war started) were interned in the camps only as long as the war lasted, and were freed at the end of the war. Unfortunately there are many myths and misconceptions about the relocation and internment of Japanese in the US. Japanese-American citizens and legal aliens were not relocated from Hawaii, the mid-west or the east coast of the United States. Only those living in the west coast areas were subject to this government action. Japanese-Americans were released from these camps based on various criteria, some well before the end of the war, others later near the end. Most of the Japanese-Americans that were interned the longest were from families that were unwilling to swear allegiance to the United States. Internment was based on the US government suspicion that many of the Japanese in America as legal aliens were loyal to Japan not the United States. In fact, a minority of those interned were vocally pro-Japanese and anti-American. Many Japanese-Americans volunteered to serve in the US military during the war. If they were currently interned, then they were permanently released to serve. The volunteer rates of those inside the camps was actually lower than from those Japanese-Americans outside the camps. In any event, it was not the policy of the US government to mistreat the internees. In fact the internees were generally well treated and cared for in almost all cases. The US court system had ruled in WW2 that it was legal for the government to take this action. Regardless, the Japanese-American citizens believed that the idea was wrong for them to have been sent to the camps in the first place. They petitioned the US government for compensation after the war. Eventually the US government apologized and paid some compensation to former internees, but the bitterness would remain for many.

"NO FLY ZONES" were enforced during that time period. Any Iraqi aircraft flying in those restricted areas was subject to being shot down.

The President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of all US Armed Forces.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed by the atomic bombs.

Oh, yes. The Soviets had very large resources. Look at it the other way round: Would the Nazis still have lost the war if they had won Stalingrad - the answer has to be yes, they would have come to a halt somewhere not much further on and then the Soviets would have fought back and regained the ground. By the way, that should have been 'HAVE won', not 'OF won' in your question.

While many think of war as a fight between armies, it is historically a fight between nations and the people of those nations. That would mean that even 'non-combatants' are still the 'enemy'. Another point is that non-combatants still support production of things for armies, like food, clothing, ammunition, guns, armor, fuel, vehicles, et cetera - and by doing so are indeed 'fighting' against the other side.
But the only real way to end or win a war is to remove the enemies will to resist. If you think everything a home is safe and it is just you taking chances, you may be more willing to fight. If you think that while you are away your family is being bombed, maybe you want the fight to end.
There is little that is pretty in war and that is why it should be a last resort.

The USS Constitution. It did not sink it but crippled and captured it

A total of 2,008 United States Navy personnel were killed in action. In addition, 109 United States Marine Corps personnel were also killed.

The motives of the USA in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan were to shorten the war and to reduce the number of allied casualties if an invasion of Japan was necessary by making it impossible for Japan to continue fighting.

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See the attached link for the full story of the 101st Airborne in World War 2. One link has a list of the supplies they packed in their backbacks.

The US stopped exporting steel, aviation fuel, and scrap iron to Japan. Japan got mad and allied with Germany and Italy and eventually Japan attacked the US. On the day of Dec. 7, 1941, diplomats from Japan were meeting with Congress in Washington to make peace with the US. Well, as that was going on, Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor.

After the fall of France to the Germans in 1940, Vichy, South of Paris. continue to administer the government there, but under German control, from July 1940 to November 1942, when the German took full control of all of France....

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No. Pearl Harbor was obviously Pearl Harbour while D-day refers to the landing achieved by Allied troops on the shores of Normandy during the second World War D-day can also, however, refer to a day of signifigant importance or reckoning. Pearl Harbor can be referred to as A D-day, but not as THE D-day

the industrial revolution led to a creation of many new jobs in american cities

The UN security council has 15 members. Of these, 5 nations are permanent members (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, & United States) who hold veto power. The remaining 10 are elected non-permanent members with two-year terms. The non-permanent members are elected from the General Assembly and do not have veto power over the Council's resolutions.

Unfortunately, racism was a huge part of United States history and Blacks were not the only race to suffer unequal and prejudicial treatment. Asian-Americans did not become accepted as "true Americans" until the mid-1960s. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, many Americans saw the Japanese-Americans as a fifth column. This meant that they viewed the Japanese-Americans as secret spies for Japan and inherently disloyal to the United States. Strangely, from a modern perspective, German-Americans, Irish-Americans, and Italian-Americans, who were much more vociferous opponents of US military policy in World War II were not even considered for discriminatory treatment, showing that this boils down to racism and fear of Asians more than it does legitimate security concerns.

In order to deal with this perceived loyalty, the President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This order was used to round up Japanese-Americans all along the Pacific coast (the largest area of Japanese-Americans in the United States) and place them in internment camps. In 1944, the US Supreme Court upheld the validity of the camps on the grounds of necessary military action. Surprisingly, the Japanese-American response was not to riot or protest, but to actively seek to assist the United States military in World War II. To "prevent" the Japanese-Americans from being in contact with other Japanese, most Japanese-American units were sent to the Italian Front, where some of them earned the highest amounts of commendations and medals. After the war, the Japanese-Americans were released from the camps without any property of money from which to make a living. However, many of them were resourceful and able to sustain themselves in the following decades.

In the 1980s, the US Federal Government admitted its wrongdoing and compensated every family that still had a surviving member from the internment camps for this violation of their civil liberties.

I can supply the basic strategy for the Pacific Theatre for you. It was to eventually obtain air bases close enough to Japan to support a complete blockade of the island and to allow our B-29 and B-17 bombers to bomb the enemy into submission, or at least soften it up for an invasion. We accomplished this strategy by the invasion and occupation of the islands of Saipan/Tinean, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. the strategy was called "island hopping". this went they didn't try to capture every island in the pacific but skip there way to bombing range of Tokyo. by surpassing these islands they saved time, supplies, troups, etc. and effectively cut off islands of Japanese troups rendering them useless. Biased answer

American strategy in Europe was to hold Germany, keep them from expanding. Thus American armed forces were used to bomb German cities and military targets. Troops were used to occupy French colonies to prevent Axis expansion into them.

It wasn't until mid 1943 that the USA even began operations on land in Europe, that being the invasion of the peripheral territory of Sicily.

After the Soviets had taken most of the fight out of the German army, the USA along with Britain finally decided to a major invasion of France, June 1944. Probably coming a year later than necessary due to British foot dragging, this invasion led quickly to German over extension and collapse.

In the air war, the USA at least ostensibly tried to maintain attacks on military or industrial targets using daylight bombing. The British had no such qualms and went directly after civilians, killing hundreds of thousands in Germany.

In the Pacific the USA was pretty much alone and thus had a much more direct and reasonable strategy. There the plan was to isolate the various Japanese island fortresses, by passing most, occupying a few for bases, and thus leapfrogging across the Pacific.

The Japanese helped out by overtending themselves in the Midway campaign which effectively took the Japanese navy out of the strategic war (June 1943).

Ultimately the USA leapfrogged all the way to the Philippines and Okinawa. It was then that the USA began its own indiscriminate massacre of civilians via a bombing campaign. There was a nod towards attacking militarily important targets but mainly the attacks were meant to kill as many Japanese civilians as possible in the hope that the government would collapse. This strategy was a failure since the Japanese never seriously considered surrender due to bombing alone. It was the combination of bombing, a starvation blockade, and a threat of Soviet invasion that finally caused the Japanese to quit in 1945.

It is important to note that the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had the greatest effect on the Japanese decision to surrender.

The result of the Manhattan project in WW 2 was to create 3 fission atomic bombs. The first was tested in the New Mexico desert in July 1945. The next two were dropped on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in August 1945. The Japanese surrendered and WW 2 ended in September 1945.

Not long. Pearl Harbor itself was not damaged very much. The brunt of the attack was on the ships in the harbor and on the Ford Island airfield. The Japanese were not targeting the harbor facilities.