University:
Montclair State University
Course:
EDFD 220 | Philosophical Orientation to Education
Academic year:

2024
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456

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1
Author:

V. Frederic

AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN WW2 (1941-1945) Dr. King: (1929 - 1968) 1. Dr. King was 12 years old when WW2 broke out -- but would he have served if he was an adult? He is one of America’s most famous pacifists / peaceful revolutionaries. He could have been drafted but he WOULD NOT have used violence. Nazi War Crimes: (1938-1945) 2. Nazis conducted the most organized genocide in history: the Holocaust. For every Jewish person killed, one non-Jewish person was killed. Hitler wanted a world w/o certain types of people. Most of the Holocaust took place in Eastern Europe, stretching from Poland to Russia. Nazis were put on trial at the end of the war for this. Some went to prison; others were executed. 11-12 million people were targeted and murdered. Japanese Atrocities: (1937-1945) 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Japan committed mass murder / mass rape in China in 1937. (Rape of Nanking) Japan took 200,000 Asian women (mostly Korean) and turned them into sex-slaves for soldiers. Japan experimented upon prisoners of war; beheaded some; starved some; tortured some (movie Unbroken). Japanese soldiers were NEVER told to committ genocide like the Nazis, but they killed millions of people. At the end of the war, some Japanese soldiers / leaders were put on trial. (TOKYO Trials). The Atomic Bombs: Fat Man (Nagasaki) & Little Boy (Hiroshima) 8. 9. 10. 11. We bombed Japanese cities with fire bombs (napalm), and they wouldn’t surrender. They sent suicide pilots (KAMIKAZES) to destroy American ships. The closer we got to Japan (island hopping), the harder they fought. We feared an invasion of Japan would cost millions of lives. What was the alternative? Using two atomic bombs. But wasn’t Japan already defeated? Wasn’t this morally wrong? Didn’t we know what radiation could do? Couldn’t we have warned them? August 6, 1945: Hiroshima was destroyed; August 9 = Nagasaki was destroyed. We’re the only nation in world history to use these weapons. The End of WW2: 12. Mussolini (Italy) was killed in April 1945; Hitler killed himself two days later; and the Japanese surrendered in August 1945.