Give Me Liberty: Freedom And Liberty Across The World

DOCUMENT READER Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Liberty and Freedom The book Give Me Liberty chapter 22 to 24 by Eric Foner discusses the topic of freedom and liberty and the USA influence to foster such liberty and freedom across the world. However, the USA government could not find the way to solve such hence it ventured into addressing its foreign relations. Many colonies were aware of imperialism and pushed for their independence, and US felt a need for such nations to obtain freedom and liberty just like the US did in its American Declaration of Independence. Various regimes such as Truman, Roosevelt, and Nixon embraced a need for freedom. However, USA faced challenges due to frequent Cold Wars and stopped a mounting pressure on Europe to give self-government to the different colonies. USA faced the difficulty of the search for liberty and freedom for the whole world especially colonies in the book where the author gives cases of Pearl Harbor, Korean War, and the TV World. Pearl Harbor On calm Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Japanese forces attacked the island alarming the USA for their lack of invincibility against the foreign attack. The dark day changed the USA position regarding its international relations and ventured into the World War II. Two soldiers on the day saw an oscilloscope signal on mobile radar and immediately alerted the all the military base commanders. Upon their negligence, Pearl Harbor turned into ruins within a short time. Was the war necessary in the first place? Well, USA forced Japanese into a point of no choice but to attack Pearl Harbor. The USA administration cracked the Japanese military codes and had received early warnings against anticipated attacks from Japan. Thus, the USA policy placed unfavorable conditions to prevent Japan from accessing the raw materials necessary for war against China.[Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty! An American History: Seagull Fourth Edition. Vol. 1. WW Norton & Company, 2013.] The USA administration initially embraced its international relations and policies on Europe. However, the government shifted attention to the eastern bloc countries especially Japan and intercepted messages of attack in the Pacific and its environment. The commanders at the navy and military base neglected the warnings of an attack from a foreign nation, and on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor received an attack from Japanese planes killing 2000 American members of the armed forces, destroyed 18 vessels with eight battleships as well as 187 aircraft. Japanese chose Pearl Harbor since it was the strategic base where the USA docked its military warheads at the Pacific war times. The suggestion that Roosevelt hoped to keep peace in the Pacific and Europe was unfounded. Roosevelt through Congress declared war on Japan, and as a result of Germany also wedged war on the USA. Thus, USA actively joined the WWII. Such decisions only rose after the president received information on the imminent attack and neglected a move to prevent such attacks as the president wanted the USA to join in the war and become a superpower. The then Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins confirmed the information and saw the president unmoved and said the president terrible moral ...