Pearl Harbor Attack
Pearl Harbor was the first overseas attack on the United states area in which the united states weren’t aware of or even warned about. On December 7th 1941, Japan attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked at 7:55 am by 2 waves of Japanese aircraft which caused massive destruction to the U.S. territory. With this happening unexpectedly it destroyed four battleships and another four within 2 hours. In addition to this 188 U.S. aircraft were demolish meanwhile just 100 Japanese died during the first attack. Over 2,400 Americans were assassinated along with another 1,200 injured. According to the movie “Pearl Harbor (2001)” a major cause of this attack was because Americans cut of the oil supply which
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was Japan lifeline resource. It also stemmed from strengthening Japanese-American rivalry in the pacific. A day after this attack, President Roosevelt asked for and received a clarification of war against the Empire of Japan. This was officially known as World War II. Japan, a resource free country needed supplies such as oil from other countries like the United States.
Because of Japan boisterous behavior in Asia the United States decides to make Japan suffer and stop important resources such as oil which the Japanese empire needed tremendously to enlarge their big war machines. Knowing the situation with Japan and other countries, they were never a favorite of the United States, U.S. banged immigration from japan which gives japan more reason to destroy the United States Pacific Fleet that has been move to Pearl Harbor recently by the States President Roosevelt. The navy Pacific Fleet was accepted in the late 1800’s but accepted their headquarters February 1st 1941 10 months before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The United States starts to see Pearl Harbor as invulnerable after this attack. Having such a large Navy unit was an eye opening away from Japan was of major concern. If the Empire of Japan decides to take further actions down south, the United States will surely come to protect their allies and destroy the Japanese. Nevertheless, the only option for the Japanese was to destroy the Pacific Fleet of the United States so that they would have power over the pacific waters and focus more down south where there was less struggle from the United …show more content…
States. The Japanese been practicing over the past months on the attack on Pearl Harbor, so if the talks that were held in Washington DC had crash they were ready to go to war at all costs.
November 26th, the Japanese’s sailed a navy force of six loaded aircraft carriers, the Soryu, Hiryu, Akagi, Kaga, Zuikaku and Shokak and in charge of these aircraft were two battle ships heading to Pearl Harbor captained by Admiral Chuchi Nagumo. Admiral Yamamoto was the one who planned this attack because he wanted the United States Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor to be neutralized so he can pursue Japans goals in achieving full control. The task force set sail and was to avoid been notice by United States Navy at even cost. It was set that if they had been noticed they should set sail back to Japan immediately. The Japanese learned that the United States most premium possession was their aircrafts carriers and so they were not there the morning they attack them but some carriers were doing training sessions and others where delivering planes to pacific islands. A downfall you could say for the pacific fleet but that didn’t stop japan from attacking on December 8th their time which was December 7th in Hawaii. Radio stations start to past around fake news to make the United States think that the aircraft carriers were heading somewhere else but unfortunately that didn’t
work. The foggy weather conditions were in favor for Japan which helped to provide coverage for them from overhead planes that were looking for the missing Japanese carriers. Bear in mind all the Japanese ships were to stay put on radio blackout. At 0600 hours in the early morning the first launch was set off to Pearl Harbor with 183 aircrafts, bombers laden with torpedoes and bombs, bordered by fighter aircraft leading them they made their journey within 1.5 hours. This attack on Pearl Harbor came at good cost to the US nevertheless this is very questionable. During the Two waves of attack by the Japanese, they only lost a total of twenty-nine aircraft. With this happened, it was a very tiny price to pay for the massive losses the United States Navy take place, on December 7th, 2403 people were pronounced dead, 1178 were injured, 4 battleships were sunk, the Nevada, West Virginia, California and the Oklahoma. Some others were damaged such as the Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Maryland. In addition to this only 165 were still able to fly. On this day, the Japanese had achieved a great bundle of success on the Pearl Harbor attack on both sides in my point of view. This was because the United States suffer major losses compared to the minimum loss that Japan suffered. The Japanese had officially put a deep depression into the United States Pacific Fleet and are ready to continue their goals down south but what Japan didn’t realize is that the attack only created more problems for them to solve. Looking at from the United States point of view no aircraft was in dock at all, the powers were with the big aircraft carriers. The battleships that were sunk in Pearl Harbor came back up expect the Arizona, this one was repaired and put back into service after a time. The raid on Pearl Harbor didn’t destroy any of the organizations such as the vast supply of oil that was in dock, without the oil the united states won’t be able to repair battle ships that were damage at such short time. However, from the Japanese point of view, it’s such a great success for them that they could sink so many of the United States navy battleships, destroy many aircrafts and eliminate the life of many US soldiers in such a short space of time. Is this one of the biggest mistake the Japanese Empire have ever made? I yet to find out. I honestly think that if they had sent a third wave there would have been a different outcome of the war.
To begin, the attack on Pearl Harbour was devastating to U.S. naval capabilities in the Pacific at the onset of their entry into the war. Japanese officials had grown tired of the U.S. oil embargo, which was meant to limit their territorial expansion and aggression in South-East Asia as well as China, and as negotiations weren’t reaching any conclusions they decided that the only course of action was a first strike on the aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbour to cripple U.S. naval capability in the Pacific (Rosenberg 1). The attack, which lasted about two hours, had resulted in the sinking of four battleships, among ...
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There were many events that led up to Japan making the decision to bomb Pearl Harbor. It all started with Japan wanting to expand their power. Japan was an island nation, it was isolated from many other nations, and Japan chose to be that way. But by the beginning of the 1900’s Japan was starting to fall apart as it was starting to become short of raw materials. Japan figured if it wanted to survive it would have to expand to get more materials. (O'NEAL 410-413). Japan started trying to take over Asia; they landed in the east coast of China in Manchuria and stationed troops there in order to try to take over northeastern China. ("Japan Launches A Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941"). In reaction to Japan’s landing and hostility towards China the United States, who wanted to keep the open-door policy with China, placed economic sanctions of Japan to slow down Japan’s advances in China. (Higgs). President Roosevelt hoped that these sanctions that the United States put on Japan would lead them to making the mistake of declaring war on the United States (which would also bring Italy and Germany into the attack too since they were all allied) the reason why Rooseve...
In World War II their were a lot of battles. There were a lot of city’s bombed. How would you feel if you were in World War II ? I would be running from the Japanese and the Natiz . Also I would probably die or hide in a road gutter . The question is what would you do if you were in World War II ?
On the day of the attack, Japan succeeded with their plan of “surprise.” The United States had “ no defenses and many of their guns were not loaded” (Keegan 255). Although they saw many aircrafts approaching through the radar that was installed at the harbor, the Americans thought nothing of it (Keegan 254). Because of the unexpected Japanese move, the United States suffered greatly on December 7, 1941; Japan successfully sank and damaged 18 US ships, 8 battleships, and 180 planes. In addition, thousands of innocent Americans lost their lives that day, and many homes were completely destroyed. Once Yamamoto heard the results of the attack, he was thrilled; Japan successfully carried out their long scheduled attack (Axelrod 152). However, his joy soon ended as on December 8, the day after the bombing, when Roosevelt declared war against Japan (Axelrod 149).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) described Pearl Harbor as “a day that will live in infamy”. On the morning of December 7th, 1941, over 350 Japanese attack planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two different waves took off from several different battle ships in the Pacific Ocean, all with the same destination: Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii. Since most American Soldiers were off-duty for the current day, it would be a relatively easy task for the Japanese Attackers. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States. There were simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. All eight U.S. Navy Battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. All but one was later raised, and six of the eight battleships returned to service and fought in the war. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded. The attack forced America into joining World War II and FDR into carrying out Executive Order 9066.
It was a Sunday morning, on December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor, US naval base located on Hawaii, was attacked by the Japanese. They caught unguarded the whole nation, and for that, this attack is considered one of the top ten failures of the US intelligence. The Japanese were able to attack Pearl Harbor by surprise because of the mindset of US officials, whom they saw Japanese as a weak enemy, who wouldn’t risk attacking US territory, caused by a supremacy factor; As well as the not good enough US intelligence efficiency to encrypt Japanese codes, and the handling of such information. After the negotiations between the Japanese and the United States ended, there was no doubt that they would make an attack, but they didn’t know the target of it.
As the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the United States officially entered World War Two. The Japanese government later learned later that this single event sets off an explosion that subsequently caused the United States to attack the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Pearl Harbor was one of the United States largest naval bases and the largest in the Pacific Ocean. This attack ceased all trade with Japan and officially added Japan as one of the US enemies. With a new world war started it created new concerns for the army. “World War II introduced a whole new set of problems in naval tactics” (Smith, 1). The main change driving these changes was the fact that aircraft carriers became more prevalent and common in every major countries naval force. Japan was able to pull off the Pearl Harbor attack as a result of aircraft carriers to launch their airplanes. As a result of the battles leading up to the Battle of Midway and conflicts with Japan this created a lot larger of an impact on WWII as a whole and to boost unity in America leading to a more prosperous period of history following the war.
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a shocking blow to the United States that forced the U.S. into World War II. The United States goal was to stay isolated from foreign affairs, but Pearl Harbor changed all that, forcing them to get involved in foreign affairs. A young, power hungry United States wanted to control Southeast Asia, angering Japan along the way. The reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was the results of decades of tension starting back in 1899 with arguments over the United States Open Door Policy; both countries desired control over the Pacific and East Asia, which made war unavoidable.
At this point Japan thought themselves undefeatable. The US therefore had to plan an attack that would remind the Japanese that they were not the only ones capable of a surprise air attack. They sent eighty men in sixteen B-25 Bombers across the Pacific to bomb strategic targets over Tokyo and then land in the safe airfields of China. The mission was extremely risky and it was doubtful that all would make it out alive. The crews and aircrafts were taken by ship through the pacific until they were discovered and had to launch of the aircraft carrier sooner than planned. Because of the early takeoff there was a chance they wouldn’t have enough fuel to make it to China. But onward they flew and the bombing of Tokyo itself lasted less than a minute. The civilians were completely oblivious, in fact, “the planes were cheered by civilians who thought they were Japanese.” Some of the men involved in the attack, expectedly, did not return alive. (Schweikart, 594) “Although the raid was materially but a pin prick, its psychological impact was monumental. It elevated the flagging American moral and destroyed the Japanese conviction that they were invulnerable to air attack.”(Eye Witness