Why Did Japan Attack Hawaii

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I will be writing about why Japan attacked Hawaii. Did Japan want land from us? Was Hawaii bombed because Hawaii planned to bomb Japan? Did Japan lose a lot artillery weapons and planes then Hawaii?
Japan attacked us to interfere with the attack on Southeast Asia, against overseas territories of the United Kingdom. The Japanese attacked us at 7:48 AM, Hawaii was struck with 353 japanese fighting planes, Bombers, Torpedo planes in two waves. All eight U.S. ships were damaged. Four sank and 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed. On December 8, 1941, the United states declared war on Japan.
Battleships were like men. So the soldiers who were with skills, flawed, and wounded rebuilt some ships to attack back at Japan. These battleship were like

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