7 December 1941
The US and Japan .
Japan
Protect Japan
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. That was when US want revenge. They struck Japan back on Guadalcanal Island.
Pearl Harbor.....bombing.... you know?
At the beginning of WW II the US hoped not to get involved. It was only after the US was bombed by Japan, at Pearl Harbor, that the US found that it could not avoid gettting involved.
The US put an embargo on steel, oil, etc. headed for Japan. Can't fight a war without those items.
US, UK, China, Japan, Germany and France
US Army General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito.
The US got involved after declared war onto Japan on December 7, 1941
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and that's when the US declared that they would join WW2.
There was no war in Japan in that time frame. The US had a number of bases there and used their port facilities. The US was involved in the Vietnam War and this was one of the staging areas.