How Did Pearl Harbor Impact The World

At 7:35 am on the morning of December 7, 1941 an event took place that would change the world forever. This event would ignite a series of happenings and consequences over next 74 years. It has had an impact, so profound, that it has affected the whole globe and all of us to an extent that no one would ever have foreseen.

The attack on Pearl Harbor. A sleeping Giant was awaken and drawn into the 2nd World War. Before that day the United States of America was a fairly peaceful country. It was developing into a potential world power with vast resources, growing into an industrial and economical giant.

With this declaration of war by Japan, an ally of Germany, the industrial might of the USA was unleashed and would directly lead to the establishment

The blast killed 80,000 people and demolished square miles of the city. Many thousands died from wounds and radiation poisoning.in the days that followed. As quoted from www.history.com. Three days later, on August 9, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender. The devastation of these acts was so horrific that it shocked the whole world, even the Americans. There is no doubt that the dropping of the Bomb shortened the 2nd World War and arguably saved many lives.

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But what was the real feeling leftover from this act? Power. Boy, real real power. Now I have something that terrifies all other nations. But I am good hey? I stopped those evil Japanese and ended the war, right? Self-justification.

Another direct consequence of the 2nd World War was the explosion of the weapons industry and the corporate power related to the military, in the USA. War means money. Big big money. After the War, large numbers of German scientists relocated or where relocated to the USA. Names like Albert Einstein(Physics), Werner von Braun (Rocketry), Erich Traub (chemical weapons), Otto von Bolschwing (Intelligence) and many more are well known,

Also by Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Goebbels was an animal, who murdered his 6 small children before killing himself.

The 2 tyrants or dictators that the USA have eliminated over the last 20 years, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were truly brutal, sadistic killers. The world is a better place without them. What is disturbing though, is the ease and arrogant self-righteous, self-glorifying nature with which the USA has justified their actions. Those dictators were very bad people and had to go, but look what has happened to Libya and Iraq. With the first Gulf War, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the USA intervened and all felt it was justified. The war against Iraq that followed changed the ball game