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Books on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War

Book by Michael D. Gordin; Princeton University Press, 2007

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Atomic Bomb--United States--History, Capitulations, Military--Japan--History--20th Century, Hiroshima-Shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945, Nagasaki-Shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...691-12818-9 1. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945. 2. Nagasaki-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945. 3. Atomic bomb United States History. 4. World War, 1939 1945 Japan. 5. Capitulations, Military Japan...
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The Defeat of Japan

Book by David Rees; Praeger Publishers, 1997

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Pacific Ocean--History, World Politics--1933-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Publication. Data Rees, David, 1928- The defeat of Japan / David Rees. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...index. ISBN 0-275-95955-4 alk. paper 1. World War, 1939-1945--Japan. 2. World War, 1939-1945-- Campraigns--Pacific Ocean...
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

Book by J. Samuel Walker; University of North Carolina Press, 1997

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Atomic Bomb, Truman, Harry S.--1884-1972, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, World War, 1939-1945--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and the use of atomic bombs against Japan / by J. Samuel Walker. p. cm. Includes...8078-4662-7 pbk. : alk. paper I. World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. 2. World War, 1939- 1945 -- Japan. 3. Atomic bomb. 4. United States...
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Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan

Book by Peter Wetzler; University of Hawaii Press, 1998

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Hirohito--Emperor Of Japan--1901-, Japan--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Japan--Politics And Government--1926-1945, Military Planning--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

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...and military decision making in prewar Japan / Peter Wetzler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...ISBN 0-8248-1925-X alk. paper 1. World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan. 2. Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901- 3. Japan -- Intellectual life...
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Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

Book by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; Belknap Press, 2005

Subjects:

World Politics--1933-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Armistices, World War, 1939-1945--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union, World War, 1939-1945--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

World War I order was constructed in Europe, the...framework of Asian international relations. Japan agreed to ad- here, together with the...Union, and the Japanese government, Japan finally withdrew its troops from the...cost of continuing the intervention, Japan also found it convenient to reach rapprochement...

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Journal Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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World War II in Social Studies and Science Curricula

Journal article by Victor J. Mayer; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 81, 2000

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High schools--Curricula, History--Study and teaching, Nuclear warfare--Portrayals, depictions, etc., World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...global education project that took me to Japan. I have met and talked with a number...several more whose parents lived through World War II. I also experienced the war, but...forces, and many cities of mainland Japan were subject to air raids. The most...literature from the immediate postwar era in Japan. These readings, conversations, and...nuclear devices. My experiences in World War II. I was born in 1933, so when the...
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Sixty-Five Years On: Plans and Strategy to Defeat Japan in World War II

Journal article by Herman S. Wolk; Air Power History, Vol. 57, 2010

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Japan (World War II), Japanese foreign relations--History, Japanese foreign relations--Military aspects, Military history, Military planning--History, Military strategy--History, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Foreign policy, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Military policy, United States (World War II), United States foreign relations--History, United States foreign relations--Military aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Plans and Strategy to Defeat Japan in World War II. by Herman S. Wolk ILLUSTRATION...operations. A reflective view of World War II seems appropriate also...war fades and the number of World War II veterans steadily dwindles...between the United States and Japan had been predicted at the...
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The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II

Journal article by Aaron William Moore; Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 7, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II (Book)--Book reviews

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The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. by Aaron William Moore The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II. By Peter Schrijvers. New York: New York...
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Apologies for Atrocities: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of World War II's End in the United States and Japan

Journal article by Kyoko Kishimoto; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004

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World War II, 1939-1945--History

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...have finally agreed to apologize for World War II" and "Japan expresses deep remorse for the unbearable...neighbors, especially Korea and China, Japan during World War II was a brutal aggressor; invading...bombing symbolizes the victimization of Japan in World War II, the actual victims of the bombs...
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World War II and the Japanese in the Prewar Philippines

Journal article by Lydia N. Yu-Jose; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 27, 1996

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Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere--Political aspects, Japan--Relations with Philippines, Japanese in Philippines--History, Philippines--History, World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects

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...Philippines by Lydia N. Yu-Jose When World War II reached the Philippines many Japanese residing in this Asian neighbour of Japan had for years been fighting their own...postponement of Philippine independence. Japan was hoping that problems with the Philippines...through a bi-lateral negotiation. World War II: Brief Glory and a Big Loss Events...the turn of the century to the Second World War. It has shown that the Philippines, due to its geographical proximity to Japan and its rich natural resources, was...

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Magazine Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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Hiroshima: Historians Reassess

Magazine article by Gar Alperovitz; Foreign Policy, Summer 1995

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Atomic bomb--Usage, Hiroshima, Japan--Bombings, Military policy--1945, Nuclear weapons--Usage, Truman, Harry S.--Military policy, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

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...Stimsons as well as an adviser to three World War 11-era cabinet secretaries. It is...emperor. He wrote in his 1961 work Japan Subdued: The Atomic Bomb and the End...willingness to join the war against Japan at this time, a rather odd idea that...this question is the fact that so many World War 11 military leaders are on record as...first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping...
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Banzai! Cartoons of the Great East Asia War: Mark Bryant Looks at the Cartoons Published in Imperial Japan during the Second World War

Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 58, January 2008

Subjects:

Japan (World War II)--Social aspects, Japan--Political aspects, Japan--Social aspects, Political cartoons--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...at the Cartoons Published in Imperial Japan during the Second World War. by Mark Bryant ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...New Order. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED When Japan entered the Second World War in December 1941 with the bombing of...Chiang Kai-shek of China (with which Japan had been at war since 1937). One notable...
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Victory at Sea: Recent Movies ... Have Vididly Depicted the Face of Land Battle in the Second World War, but the Story of the American War Is Incomplete without the Sweep and Strategic Stakes of the War at Sea

Magazine article by David M. Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 1999

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Air warfare, Japan--History, Japanese history, Naval warfare, World War II, 1939-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

...profligate breeder of inventions. The Second World War incubated revolutionary innovations...who never laid eyes on an enemy ship. Japan would in time pay a horrific price for...kamikaze raids spectacularly illustrated, Japan had not lost its will to fight. THE...was on its way to ending the Second World War even as it was opening a new chapter...wantonly in the systematic firebombing of Japan. On January 7, 1945, Air Force General...
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Tsuneko, Heroine of the Untold World War II Tsushima Maru Tragedy

Magazine article by Dave Bartruff; World and I, Vol. 19, November 2004

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Heroes--1944 AD, Heroes--Appreciation, Japan (World War II)--1944 AD, Miyagi, Tsuneko--Appreciation

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...one of the major tragedies of World War II, considering the loss of...closer to the home islands of Japan itself. The Japanese governments...last and bloodiest battle of World War II, the U.S. invasion of...the war was turning against Japan and the fear of invasion was...
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The Lessons of World War II: War Must Be Limited

Magazine article by J. Bryan Hehir; Commonweal, Vol. 122, August 18, 1995

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Bosnia-Herzegovina--Military aspects, Hiroshima, Japan--Bombings, War--Moral and ethical aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects

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The lessons of World War II: war must be limited. by J. Bryan...a kind of common-sense character: Japan had lost the war, but its military was...the Americans were determined to occupy Japan; hence, the bomb did everyone a favor...distinction hangs the moral logic of war. World War 11 violated the logic in pursuit of a...

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Newspaper Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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OVER 10,000 DEAD; ...and That's Just in One Region as Japan Endures Its Worst Crisis since World War Two

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 14, 2011

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Nuclear reactors, Tsunamis--Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...DEAD; ...and Thats Just in One Region as Japan Endures Its Worst Crisis since World War Two. Byline: ED JAMES THE estimated death toll...disasters. Another 1,700 were injured. For Japan, one of the worlds leading economies with ultramodern...
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Sword to Heal Old 'Wounds'; World War II Samurai Returned to Japan in Spirit of Forgiveness

Newspaper article; The Northern Star (Lismore, Australia), February 20, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sword to Heal Old Wounds; World War II Samurai Returned to Japan in Spirit of Forgiveness. Byline...northernstar.com.au A WORLD War II Japanese samurai sword has...reconciliation group to return to Japan in the spirit of healing and...
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Bush Compares Conflict in Iraq to World War II; Troops Told to Use Same Resolve That Beat Japan 60 Years Ago

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 31, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Compares Conflict in Iraq to World War II; Troops Told to Use Same Resolve That Beat Japan 60 Years Ago. Byline...S. mission in Iraq with World War II, telling Navy sailors...that led to the defeat of Japan. At celebrations ahead...
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Cigarettes Guide Olga to Be Missionary; God Moves in Mysterious Ways, So It Is Said, and So It Proved for North East Woman and Communist Olga Rutherford Abrahams. at First a Confirmed Nonbeliever, Her Conversion Saw Her Spend 30 Years in Post-Second World War Japan Doing Missionary Work with Her Husband, Doug, as MIKE KELLY Reports

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 21, 2011

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Cigarettes

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...Her Spend 30 Years in Post-Second World War Japan Doing Missionary Work with Her Husband...years missionary work in post-Second World War Japan, is fully explained in her recently...best. It was scarred by the Second World War and was undergoing a traumatic transition...the time the couple left in 1985, Japan was transforming itself into an economic...
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EMPIRE OF THE SAVAGES; Too Scarred to Speak of Their Nightmarish Ordeals, Allied Prisoners of Japan Became the Forgotten Men of World War II. Here, at Last, They Tell Their Stories - and Reveal the True Brutality of Their Sadistic Captors . .

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 5, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Nightmarish Ordeals, Allied Prisoners of Japan Became the Forgotten Men of World War II. Here, at Last, They Tell Their...the first to surrender as the armies of Japan unleashed their attack on Far Eastern...Philippines collapsed like dominoes. In all, Japan took 132,142 Allied prisoners. More...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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World War II

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...settlements (1919 20) following World War I . After World War I, defeated Germany, disappointed Italy, and ambitious Japan were anxious to regain or...Home and at the Front during World War II (2004); T. Hasegawa...Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005); B. Shepherd...
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World War I

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

WORLD WAR I 1914 18, also known as...world had yet seen. Causes World War I was immediately precipitated...following weeks Montenegro and Japan joined the Allies (Great...Aftermath and Reckoning World War I and the resulting peace...
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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Rule Assistance Association. After World War II erupted (1939) in Europe, Japan signed a military alliance with Germany...a peace treaty was signed between Japan and most of its opponents in World War II. India and Burma (Myanmar) refused...J. W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999); R. B. Frank, Downfall...
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China

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...followers to revolt sporadically. Early in World War I, Japan seized the German leasehold in Shandong...2005 also saw increased tensions with Japan over how Japanese actions during World War II were treated in Japanese textbooks, over the possible appointment of Japan to a permanent UN Security Council seat...
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Asia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...civilizations of India , China , and Japan prospered. Later, nomadic tribes...European pressure opened China and Japan to trade. World War I led to a weakening of European stature...Communist efforts in Asia. At the end of World War II the United States, Britain, France...but in the postwar period India, Japan, China, Indonesia, and other Asian...

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