Why did the attack on Perl Harbor take place?

Answer 1

Because the Japanese needed to expand their empir. The French, Dutch, British, Astralians and Americans all occupied the region. The French, Dutch and British were all fighting for their lives in Europe so Japan just walked in and took their colonies. The Astralians were not prepared to fight a war without British help since Astralia was just a colonie with alot of independence. America was the biggest and pretty much the only threat to Japan their was. Japan could not deafet the U.S. because America's industrial cupacity was to strong and the U.S. outnumbered Japan so badly. Japan belived that if the could cripple the U.S. Pacific Fleet then the U.S. couldn't react to Japanese agresson in Pacific.Why did Japan attack at all? Because they thought America would eventauly enter the war against them any how.

Answer 2

there was one hurdle in the way of Japans expansionist ideals in the Asia pacific area and that was the carrier fleet based in pearl harbour. with the destruction of the carriers in pearl it would take America another 2-3 years to put up a formidable force against japan. thus leaving china and India with no help from the outside. unfortunately for the Japanese, and fortunately for the allies the carriers had all put to sea a couple of days previous so were not damaged and engaged the Japanese at midway soon after.

Answer 3

because the japanesae did not want the Americans to join in on the war withh there navy