HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 23 Outline of Previous Lecture I The Eagle vs the Bear Anticommunism and the Cold War II The Rise of Containment III 1949 50 China goes Communist and the Soviets get The Bomb IV Publication of NSC V Containment gets Violent the Korean War Outline of Current Lecture Current Lecture I II III World War I Reasons Pearl Harbor December 7 1941 o The incident fuels the U S economy we are start building a lot more stuf o In 1943 we have the largest equipped army The war actually started in 1938 Germany started building warfare in 1935 o They bought their steel from Russia France and England The Nazis were Nationalists Socialists o National Socialism Is faschism which is when the elected people make the rules and everyone must follow them The U S joined the war because of Pearl Harbor Global Economy credit is exchanged between alli nations Race Is a crucial issue African American soldiers were discriminated against The Latino men were discriminated against as well Complicated by Japanese A lot of race riots during the war Atomic Bomb Japanese and U S did not communicate really during the war The way that the Japanese fought during the war scared the U S o The Japanese soldiers fought thinking they should kill as many Americans before they died o We thought our only option was the atomic bomb These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Many scientists left he U S and became ex patriots because they wanted nothing to do with 1st bomb after the 1st bomb was dropped Lots of people believed that Truman dropped the bomb to show the soviets what could happen
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