The primary reason was to try and disable the pacific fleet to delay the US entrance in to the war. The hope was to cause the US to have to rebuild and that would give them time to finish up in Korea, China, and some of the other pacific islands. At that point the plan of Japan was to 'Sue for Peace'. which means they would stop fighting and hoped to keep the new lands they had conquered. Japans whole motive was to obtains new Natural Resources.
They attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
they attacked us
The US was first attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
The US naval base at Pearl Harbour was attacked by the Japanese. The USA declared war on the Japanese.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese
The US entered World War II after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
1941 after the Japanese attacked peral harbor without having a declaration of war.
This happened during World War II after the Japanese attacked the US base in Hawaii when Franklin Roosevelt was president.
Some people think that because we (the US) were attacked by the Japanese, who, in return, were attacked by the Germans, which was where (in Germany) the war began.
The U.S.A. officially joined World War 2 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1945.
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor bringing the US into World War 2
The Japanese attacked the US Fleet and airfields at Pearl Harbor. This was the start of war.