Essays and Research Papers on All History Papers

In five pages this paper examines why the Japanese had no choice but to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and considers how propaganda was used to influence the thoughts and feelings of the people in support of this effort. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.

This 3 page paper outlines the role MacArthur played in transforming postwar Japan. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 12 page paper examines the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and suggests that the attacks were motivated by politics, not by the necessity of saving lives, and thus were unjustified. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

This 6 page paper looks to the events which pre-empted the War between Japan and the US in the Second World War. The events start in 1938 with the support of China and end in Pearl Harbour. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 6 page paper outlines the brutal conditions that POWs were subject to in Japan. Details of horrific experiments are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper considers the different events that lead to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the buildup of events which led to the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans during WWII. Examples are given from Return to Manzanar by Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston. Quotes cited from text and referenced. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page research paper that discusses the “reverse course” in US policy towards Japan that characterizes the US occupation after World War II. The writer also provides sociological background to this period. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 6 page overview of U.S./Japanese relations since her 1854 abandonment of the seclusionist policies that had been so detrimental to her socioeconomic growth, an abandonment that had occurred largely as a result of the insistence of U.S. Commodore Perry. The author contends that Japan and the U.S. alike have gained more from their ...

A 5 page critique of the contentions presented in this book concerning the relative value of internal verses battlefield planning which occurred between the latter years of the nineteenth century through the years of World War II. Examines the author’s categorization of military strategists into the categories of realists, adventurists, cautionaries, and thrusters. ...

A 5 page paper examining the reasoning behind the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan during World War II. The writer concludes that this was a senseless move on the part of the United States given that Germany had already surrendered and Japan was on the verge of collapse. Bibliography lists ...

This 5 page paper considers how Europe North America and Japan have become the wealthiest nations. The paper considers this from an historical perspective looking at colonialism and mercantilism and then discusses the adoption of capitalism as well as looking at the political background, natural resources and geographical locations. The paper finishes with the ...

A 5 page research paper that draws on a book that presents primary documents from the era. The cause of the War in the Pacific during World War II between the United States and Japan is typically attributed simply to the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. However, ...

A 4 page research paper that investigates the propaganda produced in Japan and the US during World War II. During World War II, both the US and Japan engaged in heavy propaganda campaigns that promoted their own particular racial views on the conflict. The propaganda produced by both countries was geared to patterns of racial ...

A 3 page review of the tragic consequences of the U.S. dropping of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima Japan as suffered by six specific survivors. First published in 1946, this book was updated some forty years later to include a chapter updating how the lives of six of the individuals the author spotlighted in his ...

5 page review of Herbert Feis' book 'The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.' Central to discussion is the idea that the U.S. did not necessarily 'have' to explode atomic weapons over Japan in order to end the conflict. Approximately 4 extra sources are listed and cited in bibliography.

This 4 page paper looks at the influences in California during the post World war Two years and during the cold war era. The paper considers how this factors, including technical expertise and Hollywood combined with external influences such as the situation in Japan, so that internationalisation was accelerated. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

This paper examines the factors that led up to why the United States dropped the atom bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The paper examines both sides of the issue; Japan's refusal to surrender unconditionally, as well a the United States' unwillingness to prolong a bloody war. Bibliography ...

This 15 page paper explores the varied reasons Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and goaded the US into war. Roosevelt’s encouragement of the war is explored as well. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

3 pages in length. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wholly unjustified because of the number of innocent lives taken, the impact upon people who survived the bombings, as well as the economic hardship Japan experienced in the aftermath. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 10 page paper provides an overview of Australia's contributions to World War II. World War II was marked by two distinct and divided segments: the land war against Germany and Adolph Hitler, and the Pacific war, in which Japan battled aptly to secure countries like Singapore. Countries like Australia, a British ...

This 5 page essay discusses how the atrocities of genocide and human experimentation have their roots in the pseudo-scientific theories, such as eugenics. The writer discusses atrocities committed by Japan, German and the US. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 5 page paper tracing US involvement in Asia during this 100-year period. By 1950, the US was wary of the new communist government on mainland China, but it maintained the position as a benevolent protector of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, which promised strategic positioning. The US represented a largely silent threat ...

An 8 page overview of the economic and political factors surrounding the 1898 US annexation of Hawaii. Because of its location and tremendously productive environment, Hawaii is a strategically important military and economic accouterment. The sugar industry which existed at the time of annexation were obvious factors in the desirability of Hawaii to ...

In seventeen pages this paper examines the respectful and harmonious relationship William Penn cultivated with the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians who were residing in Pennsylvania during the seventeenth century and how the promises he made to them in good faith regarding their land were subsequently broken after his death by his greedy sons Thomas and ...