World War II

The Second World War which began in the year 1945 was mainly caused by the Japanese invasion and sinking of US ships at the Pearl Harbor. Japan was in support of Germany, as they waged a war against France. This therefore forced Japan to enter into a war with the US, in order to be able to prevent the country from offering any support to France. The US therefore became very furious, and it therefore decided to develop an atomic bomb which would be used to bomb Japan. The relationship between the two countries worsened, that is the US and Japan, became real enemies. The US took precautionary measures in order to be able to defend its citizens. All persons in the US with a Japanese decent were therefore termed as enemies of the US (Chapter 23). This move saw most people of a Japanese decent losing their jobs and were also being discriminated in the country. This move therefore led to the detention of 112,000 people in Los Alamos simply because they were from Japanese ancestry. Fred Korematsu, was a welder who was born in Oakland, and was also detained after being considered a threat to the US, due to his Japanese ancestry. Prior to his arrest, he lost his job at the boiler company simply because of the fear of working with a Japanese. All persons who had a Japanese ancestry were therefore declared a threat to the security of the US, and it was therefore the mandate of the country to deal with such people in order to secure its own citizens from being attacked while in their own countries. Moreover, President Roosevelt came up with a plan to create atomic bomb which was directed by Physicist J. Robert, Oppenheimer.

The US was not allied to Germany, which was the main perpetrator of the Second World War. Germany wanted to gain its own interests in the war, such as the reclamation of land from other European countries such as France and Britain. This was after the First World War when Alsace and Lorraine were declared to be in France and not in Germany. This consequently made Germany to seek a revenge thus declaring war on France and Britain. Japan was allied to Germany, thus making Germany to become very stronger (Chapter 23). This move therefore saw Japan and Germany working together in order to be able to deal with Germany and Britain. The two countries were being weakened by the collaboration between Germany and Japan, a move which led Britain to ask for naval support from the US. The US, had been neutral for this whole while, even when the other countries decided to take sides with the warring countries. The US therefore saw the need of entering into the war in order to support Britain. President Roosevelt, in the year 1941, asked for the amendment of the war laws, thus allowing the US to join in the war. After declaring its support to Britain, Japanese army sank a US ship at Pearl Harbor. This made the US very furious resulting to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an atomic bomb. A very huge number of people lost their lives, and it is estimated that more than 1000,000 lost their lives due to the attack. The US went on to further bomb German military ships, a move which ended the domination of German in the world. The US therefore entered the in order to restore world order, through understanding the interests of Germany.

Reference

Chapter 23. World War II 1933-1945.