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Milestone Two
3-2: Annotated Bibliography
Hanna Semmler
History 301: World History and Culture
January 25, 2024
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Thesis Statement:
Why did the Imperial nation choose to join forces and contribute with Nazi Germany during World War II?
During World War II, developed alliances that joined forces in contribution to the war: The Axis Powers and The Allied Powers. In existence of the Axis, The Empire of Japan, alliance between the Nazi Germany, and the Kingdom of Italy, united to join forces as appointed allies. Amongst them, leaders Adolf Hitler, emperor Hirohito, and Benito Mussolini soon depleted in the attempt of winning the war due to lack of ideological cohesion and socio-economic mistakes.
Primary Sources:
Bary, Theodore de, Carol Gluck, and Arthur L Tiedemann. Bilateral treaty - Asia for educators | Columbia University, September 8, 1951. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/bilateral_treaty.pdf
. From this document states Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution in efforts to maintain the military forces and settlement that allows the U.S. military to construct bases from Japanese land. This controversy attains attitudes towards the ongoing subordination to America, signing The Security Treaty and the treaty of peace with the Allied Powers. This will help me further evaluate how I view my topic based on how socially active power is being accumulated during conferences.
Paterson, Thomas G. Interim Committee - Asia for educators | Columbia university, May1945.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/interim_committee.pdf
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This document identifies the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. From the remains of the events effected the war, it is clear the reasoning for dropping the atomic bombs formed major concerns by driving
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American policymakers’ decision to use atomic weapons against Japan. I will be focusing this source mainly for a specific time frame of the atomic bombs and the bases of technology that was attained during the war. From a cultural exchange, the Japanese were drawn to pop culture in sight for an educational tool. After the war, the government and the
private sector worked to educate the public about atomic energy and how it is valuable.
Secondary Sources:
Gilbert, Martin. 2014.
Second World War: A Complete History
. Rosetta Books. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=cat04477a&AN=snhu.b2013349&site=eds-live&scope=site
. This book makes the appearance of opening an author’s perspective of a whole outline of WWI and WWII. Gilbert proceeds to explain the leading politicians, commanders, journalist, etc. and strategies operated by the European, Asian, and Pacific land. In Addition, the author has written more than eighty books specializing in the 20
th
century that I can use for further investigation and analysis of the war. Ideally, this is a very broad
book covering tons of information during both wars from multiple sides however, this source is helpful to me for a general knowledge source. Focusing on the formation of the alliances and what agreements were made to join forces.
Koshiro, Yukiko. “Japan’s World and World War II.” Diplomatic History
25, no. 3 (2001): 425–
41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24914126
. In this journal article Koshiro how, there were two issues in Japan after WWII, reasonings were about race and ideology. Japan’s weakness was based on poor strategic and tactical from immigration laws to racial equality and why the U.S. Occupation completely submerged Japan over capitalism and socialism. The article also explains a
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general and political context to the postwar understanding as well as focusing on scholarly debates following his remarks to the aftermath of the war. This journal takes a small turn from a different perspective of smaller events that occurred during the war, how socially and economically altered based on racial differences.
Peter Wetzler. 2020.
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War : The Collapse of an Empire. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2332809&site=eds-live&scope=site
. This book intends to inform the understanding of the Imperial Japan in relation to militarism as well as significant leaders within the country. The author also provides primary Japanese archival sources and records of the Showa Emperor. Furthermore, the emperor was leader of the national cult that sanctioned most of the former’s activities. This helps understand events during war and what the emperor’s intentions unraveled those in the Imperial Army and Navy. This source helps me to understand leaders and the emperor during that time, to understand what cultural and religious conflicts occurred in relation to their military.