Cold War

Causes of the Cold War:
Social; The difference in opinion of communism. The west was opposed to communism and wanted the people to be "free" thus they wanted democracy to be used around the world, yet a democracy was not widely viewed as the best form of government hence conflict arose.
Political; Basically the United States and the Soviet Union had different opinions and could not settle their contrasting political views. (US=democracy, SU=communism)
Economic; The US was encouraging free trade throughout the world. But the Soviet Union wanted to use their own international commerce.Thus conflict arose in the fact that they weren't seeing eye to eye in what kind of trade should take place.

Overall I think the primary cause was the political views being different between the US and the Soviet Union. The US was merely pushing for democracy and couldn't see the benefits in being a communist nation, plus the US seemed to assume that any one that was communist would want to take over the world hence emotions ran high as well. The Soviet Union on the other hand saw democracy as a slow rolling process and no way to run a country, thus they didn't understand why the US was pushing so hard for their political views to be used by others.

I think that both nations were to blame for the cold war. They were both close minded and unwilling to so any benefits in the opposing views.

Prezi: Why Japan was Defeated

Japan was defeated because of their lack of resources, and the fact that they were putting to much on their plate at one time. Japan had wanted  to occupy a large buffer zone in east Asia and the Pacific. In this buffer zone they would be able to counter attack America by using their island bases. At the same time they were attempting to build up a stock piles of vital materials taken from the occupied areas (aka the buffer zone). But the Americans had adapted plans that would stop the Japanese, and as a result the Japanese plan failed. Then to top it all of the Americans dropped the Atomic bomb, and Japan was done for. Japan surrendered to the Allies. After the surrender the Allies occupied the area to insure success. Then Americans helped Japan to build back up, thus reconstructing it to what it is today. http://prezi.com/juininzcalvg/copy-of-why-japan-was-defeated/

"Monroe Doctrine for Europe" and the "European New Order"

So basically the "European New Order" was just to counter the Atlantic Charter and a convenient expansion to Hitlers previous "Monroe doctrine for Europe". In the "European New Order" the dictators "pledged themselves to remove the causes of war, eradicate the threat of Bolshevism (practices of ultra radical socialists or political ultra radicals) put an end to plutocratic exploitation and establish close and peaceful collaborations among the people of Europe." Which is basically a bunch of mumbo jumbo if you ask me. Hitler just wanted his views to reign over everyone. The "European New Order" was really just a way of spreading the political, economic, and social system Hitler wanted. This order was just propaganda and nothing else. Hitler was just using this to his advantage. My question though is did it work? Did the "European New Order" really influence anyone or was it a dud?