US in WW2

Okinawa was launched to confirm the general idea of how the final battle for the main islands of Japan would be fought. After the success of the creation of the A-bomb, the U.S. figured that the bomb would be a better way to finally end the war rather than an invasion. Truman left instructions that the bomb wasn't actually going to be used until after the Allies agreed and issued a declaration. The declaration (Potsdam Decl.) called for an "unconditional surrender" from Japan, however, Japan very much refused. The declaration stated that if Japan did refuse to surrender, more destruction (following the Battle of Okinawa) would continue. This destruction was the bombing on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

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It was a meeting in Yalta in Eastern Europe in February 1945. The Big 3(Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) meet to discuss what they would do with Germany and Europe after the war was over. It was decided that Stalin and the Soviet Union would over take Berlin, and have control of Eastern Europe. This lead to tensions because Stalin forced communism onto the Eastern European countries, and as we know the US was anti-communist.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor and the development of the atomic bomb led up to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombing of Pearl Harbor and the development of the atomic bomb led up to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

They didn't want to involve themselves with a war that was none of their business - joining the war would've meant spending a lot of money on resources, putting the US back into recession.

The only reason America did eventually join the war was due to retaliation - they wanted revenge for the December 7th Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941. Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France, and other allied nations were already fighting in Europe and Africa as early as 1939.

The United States wanted to help revive the economy in both places.

Considering the recent double overtime victory and the fact that most commentators agreed that Germany is in fact a better team, the answer is Germany.

Could a situation such as the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 11 take place today? If so,under what circumstances? If you do not feel this could happen,explain why.

the dutch west indies was the worlds leader in the harvest of latex which is the main substance in making rubber. all the governments involved in the war needed rubber.

i don't know its just a day and was coined by the military services

The Trinity test, the first firing of an atomic weapon, took place in the White Sands Proving Ground (it is now a Missile Range): a remote part of the New Mexico desert, about 35 miles from any civilian community.

The Iron Curtain was the de facto division between communist societies and democracies during the cold war.

Not one city was destroyed during the Manhattan Project. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed as a result of the success of the project but not during it.

Precise figures are not possible. There were somewhere between 18,000 and 18,600 Japanese Special Naval Landing Troops ("Japanese Marines") on Iwo Jima. 216 were captured and the rest were killed.

Various sources say it is a total of 22. The link has the citations of seven of the Corpsmen, four on Iwo Jima and three on Okinawa.

Since 1862, 294 Marines have been awarded the Medal of Honor, according to the official website: http://www.medalofhonor.com/recipients/marines.html

In addition read HEROES: US Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners, by Mark Cerasini. New York, NY: Berkley Publishing, May 2002. 374 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 0-425-18159-6. Author Mark Cerasini tells the stories of the US Marine Corps recipients of the Medal of Honor from the American Revolution to the first Gulf War. There has been at least one awarded in the Iraq war.

22 Navy Hospital Corpsmen have indeed received the Medal of Honor since the formation of the Hospital Corps in 1898. Of 14 enlisted Medal of Honor recipients in the Navy during WWII, 7 were Corpsmen. Corpsmen make up 3% of the Navy and Marine Corps. Per capita, the Navy Hospital Corps is the most decorated segment of the United States Military.

The United States passed five neutrality laws in the 1930s to avoid entanglement in foreign conflicts and maintain peace amidst rising tensions in Europe and Asia. These laws aimed to prevent the sale of arms and the provision of loans to belligerent nations, reflecting widespread isolationist sentiment among the American public and policymakers. The legislation was also a response to the lessons learned from World War I, where U.S. involvement was seen as costly and detrimental. Overall, the neutrality laws sought to keep America out of international disputes while focusing on domestic concerns.

The Depression was triggered by the stock-market collapse of l929, which is ten years BEFORE the outbreak of World War II ( the Polish offensive by Hitler) They are two separate and distinct events. It has been argued War production helped end the Slump- and there is some truth in this.

I didn't fight at all, which side did you fight on.

The basic reason the US needed to capture any Pacific island was to put airfields on it from which land-based aircraft could operate and dominate the surrounding area, and to deny the use of the island to the enemy for that same purpose. The Navy had aircraft carriers, but these were very expensive, took several years to build, and could be swiftly sunk by a submarine firing torpedoes, or lost in battle. At the time Pacific islands were sometimes referred to as "unsinkable aircraft carriers". As soon as enough of the island was secured to begin, construction was started on an airfield, and as soon as that was far enough along combat planes began operating from it, to relieve the necessity of the Navy risking its precious carriers in the area of the battle to provide air support. The first island campaign was on Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. This operation had to be launched in a hurry because the Japanese were building an airfield on it, from which, when it was completed, they could interrupt the flow of supply ships from the US to Australia. In the case of Iwo Jima, the Japanese had airfields on Iwo, and the US had massive bomber airfields they had built in the Mariana Islands, from which B-29s flew to bomb the Home Islands of Japan. These B-29s passed close enough to Iwo coming and going that Japanese fighter planes from Iwo could harass the bombers, and also the radio based on Iwo could send an early warning to Japan of an impending raid. Once captured Iwo served as an emergency landing field for B-29s shot up over Japan or experiencing mechanical trouble, aircraft which would have otherwise been forced to ditch in the vast, trackless expanse of the Pacific. Around 700 planes made use of Iwo for emergency landings. Iwo also provided a base for US fighter planes, whch had a shorter operational range than the bombers. From Iwo they could escort the B-29s to Japan and protect them from Japanese fighter attacks. Okinawa was valuable for among other reasons it was a large island, capable of holding many airfields, and was well within range of Japan's Home Islands for land-based aircraft, which could be used to support the eventual invasion of Japan.

The first time he was president was not because he wanted to be, but because it was forced upon him when President Franklin Roosevelt died. He was vice-president at the time and was immediately sworn into office. The second time he ran to be president was mainly, because he knew he could help the citizens of Amercia in that rough period. The first time he was president was not because he wanted to be, but because it was forced upon him when President Franklin Roosevelt died. He was vice-president at the time and was immediately sworn into office. The second time he ran to be president was mainly, because he knew he could help the citizens of Amercia in that rough period.

General Bradley was his immediate superior, but ultimately it was General Douglas MacArthur.

Many actors served in the Armed Forces e.g. Lee Marvin served in the US Marines , Clark Gable flew a B-17 bomber etc . . .
Many films promoting the war effort were made (Propaganda films .) ~ see related link below .

The United States involved herself in World War II when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1942 (correct me if I'm wrong on the date) Germany and her allies, allied with Japan declared war on the United States and therefore Congress declared war on them.