When these trials were being conducted in places such as: Nuremberg and Tokyo, these defendants were held to this standard. (Plesch 101 -- 118) In many cases, they tried to claim that they were simply following orders
Moreover, the Germans had been able to create the first jet aircraft. (Ward 34 -- 52) After the war was over, the Allies were rounding up these scientists and were learning everything about these secret programs
African-American civil rights advocates decided to challenge the discriminatory policies by demonstrating their loyalty to the United States in the war abroad and combating racism at home. In addition to fighting the Nazis abroad in a larger war, they had to conduct a sort of "a war within a war" at home (Black and Thompson)
On one side were its historic practices of discrimination, often exercised toward Mexicans, Asians, and Indians as well as blacks. On the other wide would be wartime ideology and labor shortages, which, coupled with extensive migration of African-Americans, would challenge those practices and put blacks in the forefront of racial issues in the West (De Graaf 24)
Government rather that fight on its behalf. Radio Berlin cynically asked, "How could the Americans Indians think of bearing arms for its exploiters?" (Holm 69)
. The FEPC influenced the course of civil rights reform as it became a postwar model for city, state, and, federal efforts against employment discrimination" (Kersten 14)
"You are now the husband of a career woman," one woman wrote. "Opened my little checking account too and it's a grand and glorious feeling to write a check all your own and not have to ask for one" (Litoff and Smith 23)
It made them far more serious about the bare realities of life: life, death, values. It robbed them, in a sense, of some childhood" (Strong and Wood)
In addition to fighting the Nazis abroad in a larger war, they had to conduct a sort of "a war within a war" at home (Black and Thompson). African-Americans dubbed this struggle the "Double V," meaning that they would attain victory over fascism abroad and over racism at home (Takaki; Perry)
6% of the United States' electrical producing capacity but supplies about 20% of the electricity in the United States. As well the long-term storage or redevelopment of used nuclear fuel, another practical disadvantage of nuclear energy is that nuclear power plants must maintain high levels of safety regarding the ability to control the necessary nuclear reaction (Childress, 2010)
Deterrence is plausible only if a nation is able to successfully convey the first two points to its opponent, that it is capable and willing. Successful deterrence depends on the psychological components of communication and perception (Gaddis, 2010)
Therefore, there was no threat of direct military aggression to deter. Moreover, the possessors of nuclear weapons have never been able to find much military reason to use them, even in principle, in actual armed conflicts (Mueller, 2010)
Reportedly, over 120,000 people were removed from their homes after Executive Order No. 9066 was issued in February of 1942 by then President Roosevelt (Daniels 1)
Here, Dower suggests that "to scores of millions of participants, the war also a race war. It exposed raw prejudices and was fueled by racial pride, arrogance, and rage on many sides" (Dower 4)
This dominated the American perception of their Japanese enemies. As such, "Americans saw Japan though the black-white racial prism" which the image of Japanese as foreign and inferior to many Americans as the image of African-Americans had in the earlier nineteenth century (Lie 175)
S. military imposed curfews and other restrictions on persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, including both naturalized native American citizens, and eventually 'excluded' mot Japanese-Americans from certain Western areas, interning those who lived there in military camps further inland" (Primus 200)
Essentially, elements of racism intensified the war in the Pacific between the Japanese and the Americans. Racial hatred has long fueled tensions that have erupted in violence and military aggression (Shy 15)
These shifts occurred in locations where there was a sense of openness and creativity. (Adams) Moreover, European artists after World War I became interested in Abstract Expressionism to discuss unique ways of representing colors and depicting ideas differently
Give me that knife, You, hag! You admit you live off the war, what else would you live off? Tell me: how can we have a war without soldiers? MOTHER COURAGE Do they have to be mine? SERGEANT So that's it. The war should swallow the pits and spit out of the peach, Huh? (Brecht, p
Wilfred Owen wrote numerous intense poems based on his personal experience as a soldier. Owen aspired to be a poet since he was a teenager and immersed himself in poetry, especially poems by Keats and Shelley (Roberts, 1998)