The Gathering Storm and Global War - Assignment Example

Germany attacked Russia after making a pact with the USSR splitting Poland. The Axis powers wanted to rule the world. If not stopped by the combined efforts of the Allies, this could have been a reality. Without the U.S.’s support, the English, Russians, and other Allies might have failed to defeat the Axis powers. Japanese prison camps should have been given $20,000 in reparations, not only for their economic and material losses but also for the emotional turmoil at the loss of security of being an American citizen.

If we did not issue reparations, then we would have been worse than the NAZIS. We are supposed to be good guys, although America sometimes makes mistakes. These mistakes need to be acknowledged and paid for. Japanese prison camps were not only a mistake but wrong as well.The Japanese had a different perspective on death. Our goal was to protect as many American lives as possible. The Japanese did not mind dying in kamikaze attacks as long as Americans also died. If the atomic bomb had not been used, the war could have lasted indefinitely.

This might have caused more causalities, American and Japanese, than the ones that died in Hiroshima or Nagasaki combined.