Germany and Japan in World War II. From Pearl Harbor to the German Capitulation

During World War II, the Japanese constructed prisoner of war camps in fifteen countries, including China. These camps numbered approximately 240. The Japanese—whose attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the United States into World War II— saw their global role as manifest destiny, particularly with respect to China. Militarist Japan's attempt to conquer China began by seizing Manchuria in 1931 and became a full-fledged invasion from 1937 [when they attacked Shanghai] to 1945. This chapters shows that American jazz musicians—all of whom were playing in Shanghai—were not immune to the Japanese invasion and occupation. Some landed in internment camps in China and the Philippines.

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Nixon's Grand Design

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900012195 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 9-11

Author(s):

Donald Brandon

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

World War Ii ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Significant Role ◽

American Foreign Policy ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

World War ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The World ◽

Grand Design

For a generation now, America has played a significant role in world affairs. Until Pearl Harbor a reluctant belligerent in World War II, this country was also slow to respond to the challenge of the Soviet Union in the immediate aftermath of that gigantic conflict. But for almost twenty-five years American Presidents have been more or less guided by the policy of “containment.” Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson all introduced variations on the multiple themes of the policy adopted by Harry Truman. Yet each concluded that the world situation allowed no reasonable alternative to an activist American foreign policy in most areas of the globe.

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The destruction of Shinto shrines in Hawaii and the West Coast during World War II: the lingering effects of Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American internment

Asian Anthropology ◽

10.1080/1683478x.2019.1592816 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 266-281

Author(s):

David K. Abe ◽

Allison Imamura

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

West Coast ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

Japanese American ◽

World War ◽

The West ◽

Japanese American Internment

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Book Review: Stephen E. Pelz, Race to Pearl Harbor. The Failure of the Second London Naval Conference and the Onset of World War II. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. 268 pp. £10·50.)

Millennium Journal of International Studies ◽

10.1177/03058298750040030705 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 277-279

Author(s):

R. John Pritchard

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Harvard University ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

World War

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Advertising Navigates the Defense Economy

10.5406/illinois/9780252037122.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Inger L. Stole

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Public Relations ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

World War ◽

War Economy ◽

The Public ◽

Advertising Council

This chapter analyzes industry strategies for “educating the public” to a view of advertising as socially and economically useful. More specifically, it shows the use of institutional advertising for this purpose and discusses how industry leaders worked behind the scenes to prepare a solid defense of advertising. The chapter explores the challenges faced by the advertising community in the period leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and immediately thereafter, including how the industry dealt with new forms of criticism and how it viewed its role in the war economy. The chapter concludes with the establishment of the Advertising Council, Inc., an organization that would come to define the advertising industry’s public relations efforts during World War II and beyond.

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