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Countries like Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France, and Poland were involved in WWII. People that were involved are British soldiers, American soldiers, French soldiers, Japanese soldiers, and Nazis fought in World War II.Women played part in war by working in factories to make boats.They also became evacuation officers, fire officers, conductors and nurses.About 350,000 women served in the US force during World War 2.

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France fought with Germany on September 1, 1939 known as the Phony War. On May 10, 1940 Germany invaded Poland and started to kill Jews and anyone else who didn't agree with Nazi's beliefs.Nazi's also held people in concentration camps and killed anyone who didn't work.Germany, Japan, and Italy formed an alliance called the Axis Powers. Britain, America, and Soviet Union formed an alliance called the Allied Powers.Even though Americans were in the Allied Powers, they lost 100,000 soldiers in WW1, so they didn't contribute to the war. Instead they sent weapons to the country's fighting.Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, US airfields, and US navy ships killing 1000 men.What made them surrender was the bomb that the US tested in a desert in New Mexico. They dropped it in Japan killing about 80,000 people.They dropped another one and threatened to send more if they didn't surrender.Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945.Germany surrendered to Europe on May 7, 1945, and Japan surrendered to the Pacific on September 2, 1945.

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Hannah's role is that she is Jewish and she is a victim of the Nazi concentration camp.This book connects to world war two because the concentration camp took place in world war ll.

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Role- Jewish girl
Experiences- celebrates Jewish holidays
Wants- to forget about Jewish holidays.("All Jewish holidays are about remembering, Mama.I'm tired of remembering".Pg.4)

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This map shows the land that the countries had before the war.

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The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939 removed the threat from the Soviet Union, allowing Hitler to invade Poland on 1 September. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War had begun.

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Historical Atlas of Europe (16 September 1939): Invasion of Poland

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The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939 removed the threat from the Soviet Union, allowing Hitler to invade Poland on 1 September. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War had begun.

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France fought with Germany a little on September 1, 1939 known as the Phony War.Germany invaded Belgium on May 10, 1940.Hitler started to kill anyone who didn't agree with his Nazi beliefs, like Jews.Germany, Japan, and Italy agreed to an alliance and signed the agreement.Americans didn't want to contribute to war because they lost 100,000 soldiers in WW1 so they gave weapons to the countries fighting.Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, US air fields, and US navy ships.1,000 men were on the navy ship when it exploded and sank with many people dead, some injured with broken limbs.President Roosevelt gave a speech and signed a form of declaration against Japan on December 8.The Allied Powers began to fight back against the Axis Powers.The US tested a bomb in a desert in New Mexico and then used it in Japan killing about 80,000 people.10 days later the Potsdam Declaration said that Japan had to surrender or else they would destroy their land and their armed forces.Japan refused to surrender so the US dropped a second bomb.Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945.Germany surrendered to Europe on May 7, 1945, and Japan surrendered to the Pacific on September 2, 1945.

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Hirohito felt anger towards Americans because they assassinated Japans prime ministers and used the Atomic bomb twice which forced Japan to surrender.For example there are words used like "after Japans surrender in 1945, he became a figure head with no political power" causes me to infer that he thinks it was Americans fault that he lost his power.
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Table of Contents

1. Hirohito: The Early Years

2. Hirohito as Emperor and the Rise of Japanese Militarism

3. Japan's Involvement in World War II

4. Life for Hirohito After the War

Hirohito (1901-1989) was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He took over at a time of rising democratic sentiment, but his country soon turned toward ultra-nationalism and militarism. During World War II (1939-45), Japan attacked nearly all of its Asian neighbors, allied itself with Nazi Germany and launched a surprise assault on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Though Hirohito later portrayed himself as a virtually powerless constitutional monarch, many scholars have come to believe he played an active role in the war effort. After Japan's surrender in 1945, he became a figurehead with no political power.

Hirohito: The Early Years

Hirohito, the eldest son of Crown Prince Yoshihito, was born on April 29, 1901, within the confines of the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo. According to custom, imperial family members were not raised by their parents. Instead, Hirohito spent his early years in the care of first a retired vice-admiral and then an imperial attendant. From age 7 to 19, Hirohito attended schools set up for the children of nobility. He received rigorous instruction in military and religious matters, along with other subjects such as math and physics. In 1921, Hirohito and a 34-man entourage traveled to Western Europe for a six-month tour; it was the first time a Japanese crown prince had ever gone abroad.

Did you know? Hirohito's son Akihito, the current emperor of Japan, broke with 1,500 years of tradition by marrying a commoner in 1959.

Upon his return to Japan, Hirohito became regent for his chronically ill father and assumed the duties of emperor. In September 1923, an earthquake struck the Tokyo area, killing about 100,000 people and destroying 63 percent of the city's houses. Rampaging Japanese mobs subsequently murdered several thousand ethnic Koreans and leftists, who were accused of setting fires and looting in the quake's aftermath. That December, Hirohito survived an assassination attempt, and the following month he married Princess Nagako, with whom he would have seven children. At around the same time, he ended the practice of imperial concubinage. Hirohito officially became emperor when his father died in December 1926. He chose Showa, which roughly translates to "enlightened harmony," as his reign name.

Hirohito as Emperor and the Rise of Japanese Militarism

When Hirohito assumed the throne, a universal male suffrage law had just passed, and political parties were near the height of their prewar powers. However, a plunging economy, rising militarism and a series of political assassinations soon caused a crisis for the pro-democracy movement. Hirohito, who as emperor was the nation's highest spiritual authority and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, essentially fired the prime minister in 1929. The next prime minister was shot and mortally wounded, and in 1932 yet another prime minister was assassinated by naval officers upset about a treaty limiting the number of Japanese warships. From then on, almost all prime ministers came from the military rather than from the political parties, which were disbanded altogether in 1940. More political violence occurred in 1935, when a lieutenant colonel slashed a general to death with a samurai sword. And in 1936, over 1,400 soldiers mutinied in Tokyo, seizing the army ministry and murdering several high-ranking politicians.

Meanwhile, Japan's conflict with China was growing. In 1931, Japanese army officers initiated the so-called Manchurian Incident by detonating a railway explosion and blaming it on Chinese bandits. They then used the event as an excuse to take over Manchuria in northeastern China and set up a puppet state there. Excursions into other areas of the country soon followed, and by 1937 war had broken out. That winter, the Japanese army massacred an estimated 200,000 civilians and prisoners of war in and around the city of Nanking. Rape is thought to have been commonplace, and women throughout Japanese-controlled regions of Asia were brought in to serve as prostitutes. Hirohito did not condone the invasion's more repugnant aspects, but-perhaps because he worried the military would make him abdicate-he failed to punish those responsible. He also sanctioned the use of chemical warfare and the uprooting of peasants.

Japan's Involvement in World War II

In September 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, in which they agreed to assist one another should any of them be attacked by a country not already involved in the war. Japan sent troops to occupy French Indochina that same month, and the United States responded with economic sanctions, including an embargo on oil and steel. A little over a year later, Hirohito consented to the decision of his government to battle the Americans. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes bombarded the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii, destroying or crippling 18 ships and killing almost 2,500 men. The United States declared war one day later.

Over the next seven months, Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies, British Singapore, New Guinea, the Philippines and a number of other locations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. But the tide started turning at the June 1942 Battle of Midway and soon after at Guadalcanal. By mid-1944, Japan's military leaders recognized that victory was unlikely, yet the country did not stop fighting until after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the following August. On August 15, 1945, Hirohito made a radio broadcast announcing Japan's surrender.

Life for Hirohito After the War

A postwar constitution preserved the monarchy but defined the emperor as a mere symbol of the state. All political power went to elected representatives. Unlike many among his top military brass, Hirohito was not indicted as a war criminal, in part because U.S. authorities feared it could throw their occupation into chaos. From 1945 to 1951, Hirohito toured the country and oversaw reconstruction efforts. The American occupation ended in 1952, after which Hirohito served largely in the background while Japan went through a period of rapid economic growth. He died on January 7, 1989, having spent nearly 64 years on the throne-the longest imperial reign in Japanese history. To this day, Hirohito's wartime record remains a subject of much debate.

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Hirohito was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He oversaw the country during World War II and the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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World War II started when German forces invaded Poland in September 1, 1939.The war lasted 6 years ending in 1945.

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The conflict was that after Germany invaded Poland, the Allied Powers- (Britain, US, Soviet Union, France) declared war on Germany.There was a total of 70 million deaths in the world because of the war.It became the deadliest war in human history.

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Stalin felt aggression towards Germany because France was not so strong and Germany was more stronger.For example we know "France might threaten Germany with strong potential enemies on both sides".They also used words such as threat and infighting,aggression.    Jennifer

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Perspective on Minor character-Grandpa Will

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Perspective on Minor character-Grandpa Will

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Role- A runaway slave
Experiences- victim of concentration camp
Wants- Revenge on Nazis for killing his family("He was sitting in the big overstuffed chair in front of the TV set, waving his fists and screaming at the screen.Across the screen marched old photos of Nazi concentration camp victims, corpses stacked like cordwood, and dead-eyed survivors."Pg.8)

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A lot of countries were involved in the war like, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France, and Poland.

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British soldiers, American soldiers, French soldiers, Japanese soldiers, and Nazis fought in World War II.Women played part in war by working in factories to make boats.They also became evacuation officers, fire officers, conductors and nurses.About 350,000 women served in the US force during World War 2.

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Perspective on #2 Minor Character-Shmuel

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Perspective on #2 Minor Character-Shmuel

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Role- Jewish man
Experiences-Farmer
Wants-peace for his farm

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During World War 2 Winston Churchill was prime minister of great Britain, Franklin D. Roosevelt was helpful, Roosevelt  helped people get through depression, in world war ll Joseph Stalin led Russia through some terrible moments after winning the war he set up Eastern Bloc of Soviet, and Charles de Gaulle is the leader of France, he was against German.

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Before                                After
-ungrateful                     -grateful
- unhappy                       -thankful

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Both characters in the book "The Devils Arithmetic" and "Forge", feel hopeless but also determined. Curzon, the character in Forge, is hopeless when his friend leaves with all his money and he is stuck in the middle of nowhere, but he is determined to escape with his friend when they end up working for the same slave master.Hannah is hopeless when no one listens or believes her when she said she is from the future but she is also determined to escape the Nazi concentration camp she ended up in.

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Both characters have the conflict of being somewhere where they shouldn't be. Curzon responds to the conflict by trying to escape while making a plan with Isabel .Hannah responds to the conflict by trying to escape while she tries to warn people about the Nazis.

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Both characters learn that even in the worst times, escape is possible with determination and sacrifice. Curzon learns this when he manages to escape when his friend betrayed him and he was close to starvation as a soldier in battle.Hannah learns this when she realizes that no one believes her so she sacrifices her life for her friend who was about to die.

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Both characters also learn that even when your hopeless, being determined can lead you to success. Curzon learns this when he starts to make a plan with Isabel to try to escape. Hannah learns this when she says in her head that she will have to make them listen to her so they can  make an escape plan.