military commanders, including General Douglas MacArthur, believed the use of atomic bombs was unnecessary from a strategic-military vantage point. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killed approximately 200,000 people on impact, and tens of thousands more from radiation poisoning and cancer. firebombed Tokyo on March 10, 1945, killing 90,000 Japanese civilians in single night. Army Air Force initially attempted “precision bombing” of enemy assets but by 1944 had moved to general “area bombing,” obliterating cities and killing civilians en masse. Mass bombing of civilians became standard fare in the war.It also witnessed the first use of computers for military purposes. The war saw the creation of a dizzying array of new and horrifying military technologies including flamethrowers, bazookas, recoilless rifles, radar, guided missiles, PT “devil boats” armed with automatic weapons and torpedoes, napalm (jellied gasoline that burns the flesh) pilotless airplanes or drones.The British-American-Canadian “D-day” invasion took place on June 6, 1944. and Great Britain to open a Second Front in Western Europe, but British Prime Minister Winston Churchill repeatedly pushed for delays. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin urged the U.S.In the European theater, the Soviet Red Army accounted for three-quarters of German casualties and turned the tide of the war in January 1943.
A presidential order forced 120,000 living in West Coast States to abandon their homes and businesses and live in barren internment camps for the duration of the war. Racial prejudice was also directed at American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry. war in the Pacific took on aspects of a racial war, with the Japanese described as “rats” and pictured with sinister features. The attack came on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, ending a heated domestic debate on U.S.
government did little to help European Jews seeking to emigrate. corporations such as Ford, General Motors, DuPont, and Standard Oil invested heavily in Nazi Germany, helping to build the Nazi war machine. officials supported Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and were conciliatory toward German dictator Adolf Hitler until 1939, operating under the assumption that fascism was a force for stability and a bulwark against communism.
0 kommentar(er)
