US in WW2

Britain started work on an atomic bomb before the Manhattan Project got underway. All research was transferred to the US, due to that country's industrial capacity (and remoteness from Axis bombers) so essentially Britain "had the bomb" at the same time the US did. The first purely British bomb wasn't exploded until 1952, however.

If you are asking when the US entered WW2, it was after the Empire of Japan suddenly and deliberately attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, completely destroying multiple warships, most of which are in the battleship class. Japan aattacked because the United States controlled the Philipines and the rich oil fields there. After some involvement in China, the US boycotted sales of oil to Japan. Japan could not survive without the oil, so they had to attack the US and gain access to the Philipines. They decided to attack the heart of our naval empire: Pearl Harbor.

Depends upon the country (nation). Example (for ground units): During the Vietnam War, an Australian tank regiment of Centurion tanks was equal to a US Army battalion; an Australian tank Squadron was equal to a US Army tank company. So, for US air units, (during the Viet War) a squadron was about 15 to 18 aircraft, with normally about 12 of those being airworthy during any 24 hour time period.

The president's role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces assures civilian control of their safety. It is the duty of the president to ensure that the citizens feels safe within the borders.

Selective service system

one of the colonial days is FART DAY. i know its real! its not how it sounds. on FART DAY people eat as much as they can and then they go to a store and get gift for there very best friend. Then the person and his or her best friend get together and play games.

Twin engine Betty bomber; Val dive bomber; Kate torpedo bomber; and the Zero fighter were the primary aircraft in WWII. Don't forget the aircraft that were cobbled together to make the kamikazis towards the end of the war - sadly I can't remember if they formally had a name.

Japan and us were on "hostile" ground, argueing over oil lines in japan. The us wanted to cut them off. So japan and us started negotiating. During negotiations, Japan went behind their back and planned the attack, over a period of weeks or even months.
Hawaii

Yes it was. Almost everything was rationed!

The Cold War

come on guys, that one was easy, did you really have to look it up?

1 brief and not whollly accurate, but a start at least answer - was that they realised that if they didn't involve themselves they would a) have no friends internationally...b) the war was moving their way, and they didn't want to dirty their own shores. It's much harder to fight when someone is on your land than if you actually go out to meet them and stop them before they reach your perimeter. It didn't, really. The US went to war to end U-Boat attacks on its ships and German anti-US intrigues in Mexico. That achieved, it soon reverted tto isolationism and so sontinued until 1941.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was widely believed that Japanese citizens would somehow sabotage the war effort or begin spying (supposedly in hope of establishing the Japanese Empire in the US).

Politicians took this one step further and separated those of Japanese descent from the rest of the populace, to prevent what they thought might happen.

The Japanese were very active in the Pacific from the early 1900s with the backing of Britain, US and etc. After the massacres the Japanese Imperial Empire did to the Pacific continent the Countries backed out for their support of the expansion of the Japanese empire. Come 1942 when Pearl Harbor was attacked, it was easily conceived that Japanese American sleeper cells could have been in place for years.

The paranoia of a sleep-cells, the fact that the Japanese were out to conquer at whatever cost, the American government saw enough possibilities of Japanese infiltration as American citizens that they felt they had no choice but to take no chances and lock up the Japanese Americans.

National Security

It was not the fact that it was war it was the fact that the Japanese were so efficiently conquering that they US did not take the chance of trusting its own Japanese American citizens.

On a lighter note, the biggest farm owner in Colorado is Japanese and the Japanese have a wonderful life in Colorado and Southern California.

The country did make it easy for these victims to move and live in these areas however all their previous homes and businesses were taken away.

During World War II, the Allied Commander in North Africa and then later in Europe was Dwight D. Eisenhower. A career officer who had never seen combat until World War II, Eisenhower's humility, commitment to teamwork, and general strategic "smarts" proved invaluable for the Allied victories which occurred from 1942 onwards in the European Theater of Operations.

Mostly thousands of tons of steel. The hull of the ship, and the floors, walls and ceilings of all compartments within it are steel. So are most engine components, though nuclear powered carriers have more exotic materials in the engine room. There were also thousands of miles of copper wire, though on todays ships fiber optic cables have replaces some of this copper wire. The flight deck of WWII carriers was wood, planks laid over a steel deck.

President Truman decided to use this new weapon to make Japan surrender.

The war in the Pacific was hard and the progression islands to islands of the US Army caused a lot of casualties.

Moreover, The Americans conceived that the Japanese soldiers devoted themselves to the Bushido, the code of the Samurais in which surrender in unthinkable. Yet, Japan has continuously sent peace feelers to seek a path to a peaceful resolution knowing that the war is unwinnable. Unconditional surrender, however, was the only settlement acceptable to the Americans.

The US headquarter thought the war could last another ten years costing at least a million American soldiers to invade Japan.

The choice of using the nuclear bomb was motivated by the will to end this war as quickly as possible. It also demonstrated the American military superiority to the Soviet Union, which became after the German surrender, the communist counterpart to the United States.

The first bombing on Hiroshima was not enough to make the Japan Emperor Hiro-Hito to surrender, so Truman decided to use a second bomb on Nagasaki.

Even with the emperor's calling to surrender, some Japanese soldiers decided to flee or even to commit the ritual suicide (Seppuku) rather than to surrender.

As a anectote, a Japanese soldier, Hiroo Onoda, had even stayed on a Philippine island, thinking the war was on during more than 30 years.

She was in Portugal on a family holiday and she got abducted not 'went missing'

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the U.S. Armed Forces.

After Japan attacked Pearl Harbour, They came back for a seconed attack. But the strike two was not much successfull. The Americans were aware that the second attack would come soon, so they were operating their anti-craft guns. Still, as a result to Japan's attack, 18 warships & 180 aircrafts were damaged, and 2,400 Americans were killed. For more infomation, go to www.usborne-quicklinks.com

The origins of the tension between the US and Japan, which ultimately led to the attack on Pearl Harbor, dates back to the early part of the 20th Century.

In summary:

In response to Japan's declaration of war on China, which occurred in 1937, and then in 1940, further advancing their troops into northern Indo-China, the US demanded that Japan withdraw from China. Japan refused the demands of the US.

In July, 1941 after Japan had refused to withdraw from China, the US, (who supplied Japan with approximately 80% its oil resources, and many of the country's other resources) imposed a complete oil embargo on Japan. This decision, and event is what triggered Japan to attack Pearl Harbor.

The reason Pearl Harbor was chosen, as point of target, was, in May of 1940, the US Navy had moved its US Fleet headquarters from San Pedro, California, to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Ironically, the move was a planned one on President Roosevelt's part, to counter Japan's increasing maneuvers and presence in the South Pacific. This decision, and the United States' under estimation of the ability of Japan's military to successfully attack the Navy's fleet at Pearl Harbor, was critical to Japan's successful

plan and attack.

Hand-grenade or Mills Bomb (British).

If you consider the total cost of the Manhattan Project ($2,000,000,000) and divide that over the 4 atomic bombs built over WW2 (Trinity, Little Boy, Fatman, and one finished about the time Japan surrendered and thus not used); each bomb cost $500 million. However as most of the expenses on the Manhattan Project was for infrastructure (e.g. enrichment plants, reactors, plutonium reprocessing plants) that could be used to make more bombs, actual production and delivery costs for Fatman was much less: probably well under $1 million.