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  1. Oct 31, 2016 · 60. In the early months of World War II, the United Stated spent several millions of dollars to fortify the West Coast against possible Japanese attack, going as far as to stretch a gigantic submarine net across the Juan de Fuca Strait and to cover the entire Boeing plant in Seattle with camouflaging wire net to make it look like a residential ...

  2. Jul 19, 2017 · The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff set the date for the Kyushu invasion, called Operation Olympic, as X-Day, November 1, 1945, and for Honshu, Operation Coronet, as Y-Day, March 1, 1946. To reduce the number of casualties and lessen the chance of a stalemate, the launch of Coronet would await the arrival of two armored divisions from Europe.

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  4. Kamishibai is a form of picture storytelling that evolved in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the coming of World. War II, it became one of the most widely used mediums for. propaganda , targeting both children on the homefront and newly. colonized nations.

  5. Did the United States believe that Japan was ready to surrender? How did all of these factors come to play in the ultimate decision to use the atomic bomb? 1 W.F. Craven and J.L. Cate, eds., Tile Army Air Force.• ill World War II: Tile Padfic-Mattcrlrom to Wagasaki, June 1944 to Augu.,t 1945 (Chicago: University' of Chicago Press, 1953), 5: ...

  6. Sep 9, 2018 · Leaflets describing why the Japanese had gone to war against the USA were given out to Filipinos during the invasion of the Philippines by special propaganda corps. The goal was to try and convince the Filipinos that Japan was an ally, not an enemy.

  7. Investigate the context of war and mass murder in Europe at the time the United States entered the war. Did the course of the war in the Pacific affect the possibility of rescue of the endangered Jews by the Allies and other nations? How and why did the United States government relocate Japanese-Americans from the Pacific coast in 1942?

  8. May 13, 2024 · The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project. The United States then used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively, killing about 210,000 people.