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  1. Kachess

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    Very helpful. I couldn't find anything... should probably look harder.
     
    Kachess, Jun 12, 2016
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    You better hope your teacher doesn't play MeepCraft...!
     
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    Do you think this is for school.
     
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    World war 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 all the way up to 1945. Before the war began, there were already related conflicts. The war involved most nations including every great power (A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale) which eventually created two opposing alliances, the allies and the axis. World war 2 was the most extensive war to date, the war directly involved over 100 million people from over 30 different countries. In the case if total war (warfare that mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over civilian needs) the considerable countries used up all their economic, industrial and scientific facility behind the war effort, abolishing the division between civillians and military equipment. World war 2 contained a big mass of deaths for civillians. Most of these deaths came from the Holocaust, were around 11 million people died. World War 2 was the deadliest conflict in human history. The strategic bombing of industriral and population centeres (in which aproximately 1 million people were killed and the atomic bombings of Hisorshima and Nagasaki both resulted in a estimated total of 50-85 million fatalaties. These were the reasons that World War 2 was the most deadliest conflict in human history to date.
    The empire of Japan anticipated to take over Asia and the Pacific even though The Empire of Japan was already at war with the Republic Of China in 1937. But world was has been said to started on September 1939 with Germany invading Poland and the consecutive ackknowledgement of war on Germany grounds by France and United Kingdom. From 1939 to 1941, Germany took controll of most of the continental europe. They then formed an alliance with Italy and Japan.

    The Axis came to a stop when lost the demanding Battle Of Midway (allocated near Hawaii) and Germany was conquered whiles fighting in North Africa. After that, they were decisively defeated at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. With a collection of German defeats in 1943 on the the Easten Front, the allied invasion of Sicily and the allied invasion of Italy, in which Italy surrendered and allied victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the technique and commenced strategic retreat. In 1944, Western allies invaded German-occupied France. During this time, the Soveit Union regained all of the territorial losses and invaded it's allies and Germany. The Japanese suffered big reverses in Asia and South China and Berma in 1944 to 1945, whiles allies damaged the Japanese Navy and conguered crucial/key points Western pacific Islands.
     
    Strengthened, Jun 12, 2016
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  5. Miku

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    The copy and pastes are real. Dude
    alot of people died
    The end.
     
    Miku, Jun 12, 2016
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    Are you looking for the essay to be focused on a Countries point of view cause I could do mine all about the ANZAC's but you probs don' t even know who tf they are
     
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    Australia New Zealand Army Corp
    No I didn't google i just know that for some reason
     
    cooey, Jun 12, 2016
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    You should have been disqualified. We all know that, had you won, you would never have admitted. Someone had to catch you in the act for you to shamelessly make another without apologizing.
     
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    I apologized in game
     
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    Ironic, I am a history buff myself. My specialty: World War II Armored Warfare. Allow me to provide a much more detailed entry, less of a narrative.

    August 9th, 1945; the crew of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay were about to make history. They would change global politics and warfare eternally by doing one thing: dropping the first atomic bomb on a city. Due to safety reasons, the atomic bomb held within the plane was not armed until after takeoff, as several planes had crashed before when attempting to take off in the practice missions. For some reason, they didn't want an atomic bomb to go off at an Allied airfield. Once airborn, one of the crew armed the bomb. As the Enola Gay approached Hiroshima, they didn't encounter an ounce of resistance. This was for several reasons. Firstly, they were flying alone. There were no other bombers surrounding them, as most bombing raids were carried out. Secondly, it was broad daylight!
    According to the instructions the crew had been give, they were to drop the bomb over a bridge near the center of the city. Upon release from the plane, the bomb, code named "Little Boy," entered into the second phase of its detonation sesquence. "Little Boy" was a different kind of bomb than tested in America. Thus, they were not even sure it would work.
    Upon reaching the altitude considered to be optimal for maximum damage, Little Boy exploded.
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    Here is one picture taken from the Enola Gay as they were flying away as fast as they could. They described the explosion as "a bubbling mass, with a red hot core."
    All that was left of the city was a few buildings.
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    The question lingers, was it right? Between the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hit by Little Boy and Fat Man, respectively, a total of about 320,000 people were killed. The initial impacts caused approximately 80,000 deaths each, with the additional fatalities coming from the radiation poisoning.
    In my opinion, the A-Bomb attacks can be justified if you compare it to other data. In all honesty, when is anything "right" in war? Thus, we must compare it to statistics.
    Atomic Bombs​
    Deaths Caused: About 320,000
    Number of Raids/Bombs Dropped: 2
    Fire-Bomb Raids on Japan​
    Number of Raids/Bombs Dropped: 2 raids; one each night
    Deaths Caused: 241,000-900,000
    Strategic Bombing on Germany​
    Deaths Caused: Approximately 150,000 civilians
    Number of Raids: Various raids on 10 different cities
    Nobody criticizes the fire-bomb raids today, which killed three times as many if both are put to the maximum casualties.
    Another point, if Japan had not surrendered, the Allies were preparing to invade the Japanese homeland, which had an estimated cost of 500,000 to a million lives between the two sides, and would have leveled most of Japan.

    Most acts in war are not "right," because face it, people are going to die in war. Overall, the atomic bombs cost less lives than the invasion alone would have cost, much less the continued bombings.
     
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    Can it be a historical fiction short story?
     
    metr0n0me, Jun 12, 2016
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    Absolutely.
    --- Double Post Merged, Jun 12, 2016, Original Post Date: Jun 12, 2016 ---
    Just to be clear, the candidates right now are Strengthed second essay, Kschmidt, Xmiku, and Dwarfmorf. Please tell me if I missed any and/or someone plagiarized. Thank you. Four more days until winner is picked.
     
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    The great national debate about whether the United States should get involved in World War II essentially ended when the first bombs fell on the Hawaiian Islands. Few Americans had ever been to Japan, and fewer still cared about it one way or the other. But as radios across the land sent out the news of a sneak attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor, a gigantic nation, a “sleeping giant” as Admiral Yamamoto called it, was roused to fury. The next day, a Monday, President Roosevelt spoke before a joint session of Congress. Referring to December 7 as “a day which will live in infamy,” he asked for a Declaration of War against the Empire of Japan, which was approved without debate and almost without dissent. Surprisingly, on December 10, Germany declared war on the United States even though Hitler’s treaty with Japan was a defensive arrangement that did not require him to act, because Japan had been the aggressor. The Fuhrer made many miscalculations during the war; perhaps this was his biggest mistake.

    President Roosevelt was happy that the United States was in the war, and in fact, he had manipulated the Japanese into firing the first shot. But he had expected the initial Japanese attack to be against the Philippines, not on a presumably impregnable naval base in the middle of a huge ocean. He was shocked by what happened at Pearl Harbor, and was horrified by the destruction of his battleships and the devastating number of deaths on December 7. But the American nation could make up such human and material losses. And the President knew how to funnel national anger at Japan into a much more critical war against Germany. FDR understood better than his countrymen that Germany was the greater threat and that Japan could be dealt with almost at leisure. It was a sentiment shared by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. When he heard of the Pearl Harbor disaster, he actually breathed a sigh of relief, noting in his wartime diary: “So we have won after all.”

    The United States had great military potential, but in December of 1941 it was still more potential than reality. Immediately, the nation launched the greatest industrial expansion in human history. Within months, new orders for munitions, uniforms, and combat vehicles absorbed the remaining unemployed workers from the Great Depression. Old factories were expanded and modernized, and giant new ones sprang up as if by magic, especially in the South and West. Outside Detroit, the Chrysler Tank Arsenal produced the tanks and armored vehicles that would become the spearheads of General George S. Patton’s Third Army.

    In the skies American dominance was clear. In Washington State and in Kansas, Boeing built the great four-engine, strategic bomber fleets that destroyed entire cities. As early as 1942, American factories were already churning out 48,000 airplanes, more than Germany and Japan combined. By 1944, assembly lines in southern California, Seattle, and Long Island were producing almost 100,000 aircraft, a total greater than the combined output of Germany, Japan, and the British Empire. Statistics for trucks, jeeps, landing ships, artillery pieces, and self-propelled guns were almost as dramatic.

    Perhaps the most incredible numbers were put up at sea. By 1945, the United States Navy was larger and more powerful than the navies of all other countries put together. The Bath Iron Works in Maine produced more destroyers than all of Japan, while the Kaiser shipyards in California proved able to build an entire Victory ship, from beginning to end, in a mere seventy-two hours. And the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with 71,000 employees working around the clock, seven days a week, became the busiest and most productive such enterprise anywhere.

    In order the make the instruments of war, as well as uniforms, penicillin, light bulbs, and shoes, the need for manpower was great. Indeed, manpower became the wrong word. As millions of men joined the Army and as industrial production soared, women became the obvious source of labor. While many women remained at home with their children, and others worked in volunteer activities, the growth in female employment between 1942 and 1945 was staggering. At first, they took non-defense jobs as clerks, cabbies, truck drivers, waitresses, ambulance crews, streetcar conductors, and filling station attendants. Soon, however, opportunities in shipyards and aircraft factories opened up. One historian has estimated that a full one-third of aircraft industry employment in California was female.

    Japanese Americans and African Americans had a harder time proving their importance and finding full citizenship. Prejudice against Asians on the West Coast had been a theme of American history for generations before World War II, but the Pearl Harbor attack meant that Japanese Americans, many of whom had been citizens of the United States since birth, were suspected of being enemy agents. In one of the more disgraceful aspects of American history, they were rounded up and sent to makeshift internment camps far from their homes and businesses. Yet not a single conviction ever resulted from an unpatriotic act by a Japanese American, and many served with courage and honor in the armed forces.

    The color line has long been a defining part of the American experience, and World War II, despite being waged against two countries that celebrated racial homogeneity, did not bring immediate relief to the long-suffering black minority of the United States. In fact, blacks were not allowed in the Marine Corps and were inducted as sailors only to serve as cooks. Even in the Army, they served in segregated units under mostly white officers. Conditions were scarcely better at home. The worst incidents took place in Detroit in 1943, when Belle Isle became a site of racial warfare. source:http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ (yes i know that's not you you site) :) if you find out that
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    thanks http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ for letting me steal *coughs* i maen borrow this
     
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    Wow, you literally just pointed out your own plagiarism. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/world-war-ii/essays/world-war-ii is the exact link.
     
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    What even is this

    Pretty sure 1,500,000 million meebles literally means 1.5 trillion meebles
     
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    whoever the person who posted the thing on pearl harbor, you said that everyone was supportive of going to war after pearl harbor, this couldn't be farther from the truth. people thought that the president wanted war and was provoking the japanese the whole time.
     
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    It wasn't a very good time to be a weeaboo
     
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    I think you just won... If no one else entered it will probably be Kschit 1st place and Dwarfoo 2nd
     
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    do you have to make an essay for school by anny chance ? :D:D
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    kc for the win !! nobody can beat him ! =3
     
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    No he said he is quitting meep.
     
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