The Stars & Stripes vs. the Rising Sun

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This paper explains how the course of World War II changed dramatically as the United States entered on the side of the Allies. An economic powerhouse, the United States' production capabilities and logistics outpaced most other nations combined during the course of the war. This paper discusses how the U.S.'s production prowess was the major reason behind the victory over Japan.

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"Around the year 1931, the island nation of Japan was at a height of national pride. Her status had risen from that of a backward agricultural society to an industrially advanced power in mere decades. The Japanese national policy of that period could be best summed in one phrase, "hakko ichiu," or "bringing the eight corners of the world under one roof" (Morison, 5). Hakko ichiu was the declaration of the mythical Japanese ruler, Emperor Jimmu, who ruled a legendary kingdom circa 600 BC. In the year 1931, the phrase was resurrected by the militarists to summon support for the Japanese ambition over East Asia. History is a collection of all events that took place in the past. Seeing through the eyes of history, we watched the Allied forces, mainly American, defeat the Japanese and her once fearsome military war machine. Many historians and scholars had debated over the reasons that led to the Japanese unconditional surrender at the end of the Second World War. Many looked along the ideas of strategy and tactics, some pointed toward the direction of leadership, and a great many focused around the Manhattan Project that gave America nuclear capability. Being a student of the economics discipline, I, with this paper, would instead prove to the readers that the economic conditions played as an important role as the others, in which the American economy determined the outcome of the war in the Pacific. This paper would be helpful in proving so, leading to the conclusion which would state that the American economy was the real reason that led to the eventual defeat of the Rising Sun."

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