WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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genocide
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kamikaze
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appeasement
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civic duty
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kamikaze attacks were a Japanese suicide bombing tactic designed to destroy enemy warships during World War II. Pilots would crash their specially made planes directly into Allied ships. On October 25, 1944, the Empire of Japan employed kamikaze bombers for the first time.
Detailed explanation-2: -For their kamikaze raids, the Japanese employed both conventional aircraft and specially designed planes, called Ohka (“cherry blossom”) by the Japanese, but Baka (“fool”) by the Americans, who saw them as acts of desperation.
Detailed explanation-3: -ka·mi·ka·ze ˌkä-mi-ˈkä-zē Synonyms of kamikaze. : a member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (such as a ship) : an airplane containing explosives to be flown in a suicide crash on a target.
Detailed explanation-4: -The name, Kamikaze, means Heavenly, or Divine, Wind. The name was resurrected from Japanese history stemming from the 16th Century tale of a Mongol emperor whose fleet was sunk or turned by “the gods” who sent a heavenly wind.