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Why is WWII known today as the "good war"? How did the people of the United States unite during this time, and in what ways was there domestic conflict during this time?
There's no such thing as a good war. However, there are necessary wars.
The Germans had overrun Europe. The Japanese attacked us and were running amok in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. However the Americans felt about war before Pearl Harbor, there were no illusions afterwards that this was a war for the survival of the nation and Western civilization.
No such thing as a good war, but the balance of the world was on the line.
Back then you didn't have CNN, FOXnews, MSNBC etc., covering every bowel movement of the war. Had they been in existance then, we probably would be speaking German today. There were still protests back then but they weren't given much press or attention. The media focused on the progress and urgency of the war, and did not side with the enemy on issues of interrogation practices, aerial attacks, POW treatment, and exposing our strategic movements, as they did in recent wars.
Why is WWII known today as the "good war"? How did the people of the United States unite during this time, and in what ways was there domestic conflict during this time?
There's no such thing as a "good" war because war is not good, it results in heavy loss of life, and usually the ones responsible for it aren't the ones who pay. But I would call it a "just" war because it was necessary given what the Japanese and Germans were doing. Of course neither side was "good" fully, as there were plenty of war crimes to go around for both sides.
Isn't it amazing that a tragedy like Pearl Harbor has been upstaged by the non-war event of 911. I just found out yesterday that our war in the middle east is no longer a war. As the terrorist are no longer terrorist. Will our war dead no longer be our nations greatest sacrifice?
Isn't it amazing that a tragedy like Pearl Harbor has been upstaged by the non-war event of 911. I just found out yesterday that our war in the middle east is no longer a war. As the terrorist are no longer terrorist. Will our war dead no longer be our nations greatest sacrifice?
Indeed, things have changed a bit since 1941. At least since Vietnam, and likely even earlier--Korea--what we generally do is insinuate ourselves in situations where we have no genuine business, eventually declare "victory," and get out. And that's part of the reason why WWII was called the "good war." We did what had to be done, and we could be legitimately proud of having defeated the Axis. As far as wars go, there really hasn't been much for this country to be proud of since 1945.
It was a necessary war for the ultimate hegemony of western ideas. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the old monarchies which toppled, and WW II was about the nature of their replacements. Would it be western style democracy and individual freedom, or would it be despotism and police states?
Think of it this way. In 1789, America was the only free, market economy republic on the planet. In 2009, free, market economy republics are the norm and nations still ruled by strongmen are the exceptions. Ask yourself...what role did winning WW II have to do with this result?
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As said before Good no, but it was worth fighting.. Why? because there was a REAL
threat out there.. The German's and the Japanese would have tried to destroy our country. Every war since (with maybe an exception for the cold war) our country as a nation wasn't really threatned..
In WWII you didin't have 18 years old kids who only had to serve a year in country, you had men who had to serve the duration. and there was no being politicallly correct...
Oh. and as someone else said Todays press would have told the German's about D-Day a week in advance.. NY Times headline "Allies to land at Normandy, Calis just a diversion"
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sacrifice?
