Why did Pearl Harbor happen and How did it happen?
This question came to mind when Japan when I heard the story of Pearl Harbor was attacked.
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On December 7,1941, this was on a quiet and peaceful Sunday morning. General Tojo ordered a surprise attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese airplanes damaged or destroyed nineteen ships, smashed American plans on the ground and also killed more than 2,400 people. This attack happened by two waves of Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes. "All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk."(Attack on Pearl) All but one of the ships was raised from the water and that boat was called the U.S.S Arizona. The Japanese also damaged or sank three cruisers, three destroyers, and an anti-aircraft training ship. This raid came without a warning and no declaration of war between the Japanese and the U.S." There were numerous historical precedents for unannounced military action by Japan. However, the lack of any formal warning, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing."(Attack on Pearl) This attack was unexplainable to those who didn't know about the attack. People were afraid that the Japanese would attack the American naval base next or another famous landmark. The next day, President Roosevelt told the nation that yesterday was "a date which will live in infamy." (Pearl Harbor History)The day after the attack, the president ask the Congress if it was possible to declare war on Japan. On December 11, Germany and Italy, as Japan's allies, declared war on the U.S.
This question came to mind when Japan when I heard the story of Pearl Harbor was attacked.
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On December 7,1941, this was on a quiet and peaceful Sunday morning. General Tojo ordered a surprise attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese airplanes damaged or destroyed nineteen ships, smashed American plans on the ground and also killed more than 2,400 people. This attack happened by two waves of Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes. "All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk."(Attack on Pearl) All but one of the ships was raised from the water and that boat was called the U.S.S Arizona. The Japanese also damaged or sank three cruisers, three destroyers, and an anti-aircraft training ship. This raid came without a warning and no declaration of war between the Japanese and the U.S." There were numerous historical precedents for unannounced military action by Japan. However, the lack of any formal warning, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing."(Attack on Pearl) This attack was unexplainable to those who didn't know about the attack. People were afraid that the Japanese would attack the American naval base next or another famous landmark. The next day, President Roosevelt told the nation that yesterday was "a date which will live in infamy." (Pearl Harbor History)The day after the attack, the president ask the Congress if it was possible to declare war on Japan. On December 11, Germany and Italy, as Japan's allies, declared war on the U.S.
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Before Pearl, Harbor was attacked on September 1940. The U.S banned trade on Japan by prohibiting exports of steel, scrap iron, aircraft fuel. The U.S did this because due to Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. During December 1941, the Japanese was to plan a war plan and “try to get the oil embargo lifted on terms that would still let them take the territory they wanted, and to prepare for war"(Pearl Harbor 1). Before the attack happened Japanese military was asked to advise the war plan. On the U.S side before the attack happened they broken the Japanese diplomatic code. The U.S knew that the Japanese would attack them, but they didn't know were. Another warning that the U.S avoided was "A warning had been sent from Washington, but it arrived too late. Early warning radar was new technology. Japanese planes were spotted by radar before the attack, but they were assumed to be a flight of American B-17s due in from the West Coast,"(Pearl Harbor History 1). The Japanese attacked on December 7th, 1941 on a peaceful Sunday morning at Hawaii. The first wave of Japanese airplanes left six air carriers struck Pearl Harbor a few minutes before eight p.m. in local time. When the attack was over, all the sunken ships were to be pulled out of the water and also the remaining men who fought in the war. After the attack, Japanese losses were light 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost and 65 servicemen killed or wounded. Also, one Japanese sailor was captured and his name was Kazuo Sakamaki. When Franklin D. Roosevelt heard that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor is was too late. When he spoke on his speech to the citizens of the United States was "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."Franklin D. Roosevelt (Pearl Harbor History 1). This happened unfortunately because the U.S ignored all the warnings that the Japanese were going to attack. Everyone in the U.S including Pearl Harbor was devastated that the air force's ignored the signs of the attack. The citizens were also devastated that they lost so many soldiers and innocent people. For leaving the leaving the League of Nations in the year of 1933, Japan had perused a very aggressive foreign policy that was aimed at creating the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere’, a euphemism for a Japanese empire modeled on European ones of the 19th century.”(Pearl Harbor 1) Japan has become seen as a serious threat to the economic interests and influence of the U.S and the European powers in Asia. From July 1937, with Japan had engaged in all of war with China, and the relations that plunged to new lows. The president had imposed economic sanctions, and Japan had turned to the Axis powers from signing the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in September 1940. “But Japan’s imperial ambitions in the Pacific had placed her on a collision course with the United States, which controlled the Philippines and had extensive economic interests throughout the region.”(Pearl Harbor 1) When the United States had imposed an oil embargo on Japan it was threatening to suffocate their economy. Japan’s response was to risk everything on a massive strike which would knock the U.S. out of the Pacific.
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Before Pearl, Harbor was attacked on September 1940. The U.S banned trade on Japan by prohibiting exports of steel, scrap iron, aircraft fuel. The U.S did this because due to Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. During December 1941, the Japanese was to plan a war plan and “try to get the oil embargo lifted on terms that would still let them take the territory they wanted, and to prepare for war"(Pearl Harbor 1). Before the attack happened Japanese military was asked to advise the war plan. On the U.S side before the attack happened they broken the Japanese diplomatic code. The U.S knew that the Japanese would attack them, but they didn't know were. Another warning that the U.S avoided was "A warning had been sent from Washington, but it arrived too late. Early warning radar was new technology. Japanese planes were spotted by radar before the attack, but they were assumed to be a flight of American B-17s due in from the West Coast,"(Pearl Harbor History 1). The Japanese attacked on December 7th, 1941 on a peaceful Sunday morning at Hawaii. The first wave of Japanese airplanes left six air carriers struck Pearl Harbor a few minutes before eight p.m. in local time. When the attack was over, all the sunken ships were to be pulled out of the water and also the remaining men who fought in the war. After the attack, Japanese losses were light 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost and 65 servicemen killed or wounded. Also, one Japanese sailor was captured and his name was Kazuo Sakamaki. When Franklin D. Roosevelt heard that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor is was too late. When he spoke on his speech to the citizens of the United States was "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."Franklin D. Roosevelt (Pearl Harbor History 1). This happened unfortunately because the U.S ignored all the warnings that the Japanese were going to attack. Everyone in the U.S including Pearl Harbor was devastated that the air force's ignored the signs of the attack. The citizens were also devastated that they lost so many soldiers and innocent people. For leaving the leaving the League of Nations in the year of 1933, Japan had perused a very aggressive foreign policy that was aimed at creating the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere’, a euphemism for a Japanese empire modeled on European ones of the 19th century.”(Pearl Harbor 1) Japan has become seen as a serious threat to the economic interests and influence of the U.S and the European powers in Asia. From July 1937, with Japan had engaged in all of war with China, and the relations that plunged to new lows. The president had imposed economic sanctions, and Japan had turned to the Axis powers from signing the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in September 1940. “But Japan’s imperial ambitions in the Pacific had placed her on a collision course with the United States, which controlled the Philippines and had extensive economic interests throughout the region.”(Pearl Harbor 1) When the United States had imposed an oil embargo on Japan it was threatening to suffocate their economy. Japan’s response was to risk everything on a massive strike which would knock the U.S. out of the Pacific.
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The attack came as the profound shock to the American citizens and was led directly to the American entry to the entry into World War 2 both in the Pacific and the European theaters. The day after the attack, the U.S declared war on Japan. There was some domestic support from the non-interventionism(people who want to prevent war), which had been strong, vanished.
"Years later several writers alleged that parties high in the U.S. and British governments knew of the attack in advance and may have let it happen (or even encouraged it) with the aim of bringing America into war."(History 1)There were series of events that led to this attack. The war between Japan and the U.S has been a possibility that each nation's military force had planned for since the 1920's. But the real tension between the Japanese and the U.S until the 1931 invasion of Manchuria. The next decade Japan started to slowly to move into China, which was leading to the "Second-Sino Japanese war" in 1937."In 1940, Japan invaded French Indonesia in an effort to embargo all imports into China, including war supplies purchased from the U.S."(History 1) The Philippine Islands, at the time which was an American territory was one of the Japanese targets. The Japanese military decided to come to an end for the invasion of the Philippines and that would provoke the American military for them to respond." In the long term, the attack was strategically catastrophic. The ‘sleeping giant’ had been awoken, and in America, a sense of fury now accompanied the mobilization for war of the world’s most powerful economy"(Pearl Harbor 1) This disturbed the U.S, the anger that developed from the president and the citizens. No one liked the Japanese's attack and for return the U.S is going to attack Japan.
The attack came as the profound shock to the American citizens and was led directly to the American entry to the entry into World War 2 both in the Pacific and the European theaters. The day after the attack, the U.S declared war on Japan. There was some domestic support from the non-interventionism(people who want to prevent war), which had been strong, vanished.
"Years later several writers alleged that parties high in the U.S. and British governments knew of the attack in advance and may have let it happen (or even encouraged it) with the aim of bringing America into war."(History 1)There were series of events that led to this attack. The war between Japan and the U.S has been a possibility that each nation's military force had planned for since the 1920's. But the real tension between the Japanese and the U.S until the 1931 invasion of Manchuria. The next decade Japan started to slowly to move into China, which was leading to the "Second-Sino Japanese war" in 1937."In 1940, Japan invaded French Indonesia in an effort to embargo all imports into China, including war supplies purchased from the U.S."(History 1) The Philippine Islands, at the time which was an American territory was one of the Japanese targets. The Japanese military decided to come to an end for the invasion of the Philippines and that would provoke the American military for them to respond." In the long term, the attack was strategically catastrophic. The ‘sleeping giant’ had been awoken, and in America, a sense of fury now accompanied the mobilization for war of the world’s most powerful economy"(Pearl Harbor 1) This disturbed the U.S, the anger that developed from the president and the citizens. No one liked the Japanese's attack and for return the U.S is going to attack Japan.