It was hoped that by dealing a major blow to the US Pacific Fleet, the US would not be able to interfere with Japanese plans to become self sufficient by taking over a large part of the Dutch, French and English colonial empires in Asia.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor immediately garnered the negatory attentions of the US.
No it is the Naval Base in Hawaii that was bombed by the Japanese at the beginning of World War 2
December 7, 1941
On December 7th in 1939 the Japanese bombed the USA by attacking the US Naval Fleet and US Army air force in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This ushered the US into World War 2.
Midway was an Army air corp base and it had to be taken for Japan to threaten Hawaii and the American Pacific fleet Naval base at Pearl Harbor. Midway was generally midway between Japan and Hawaii - hence the name. Had the Japanese has success it could have prolonged the war for years.
The attack on US forces in Hawaii, most notably attacking the US Navy at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base.
* Japanese Attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor is a Naval base in Hawaii. On December 7th 1941 the Japanese bombed the the US.
December. (December 7, 1941, to be exact)
Japanese bomb naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 07 Dec 1941
The overall Japanese plan was very complicated. They were attacking in five widely separated areas, and all were to commence just as soon as the attack on Hawaii was under way. These included the naval air attack on Hawaii, an invasion of the Philippines, two invasions in southeast Asia, and an attack on Wake Island. Wake Island was a US possession and, unlike Hawaii, the Japanese intended to land troops and capture and hold the island. But their initial attack was repulsed by the Marine Defense Battalion on Wake. Part of the task force returning from Hawaii was diverted to support a renewed effort to capture Wake Island.
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese Empire attacked the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The people in nearby Honolulu got very upset by this.