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Why was the US Pacific Fleet caught off guard on the Pearl Harbor attack?
The US Fleet was not told of such an attack.
Why were the Americans caught so off guard on the attack of pearl harbor?
The United States was not at war.
What is a surprised attack?
a surprize attack is an attack that the one being attacked is caught off guard. an attack the attackee dont no about.
Why did Japan choose December 7 1941 to bomb pearl harbor?
because our troops were relaxing because it was a Sunday and they were caught off guard....
Did America have any idea the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor?
The United States Navy Commanders and Roosevelt felt they would attack elsewhere such at the Philippines, Midway or the west coast. Therefore Pearl Harbor had their guard down. The Commanding officer of the Pearl Harbor base and fleet lost his command due to his failure to have the sailors ready for action at all times. Roosevelt was in the middle of negotiations with a Japanese official at the time of the attack. Radio messages and warnings went unheeded so Pearl Harbor was descimated due to failures on the part of communications officers.
When was Caught Off Guard created?
Caught Off Guard was created in 2001.
Did the government know about the Pearl Harbor?
The US government knew the Japanese were going to attack the US and assume that the attack would take place at Pearl Harbor. The US Navy had been practicing for the attack for 20 + years. The surprise of the attack included the time of the attack (a Sunday morning when most US sailors were on leave or hung over from drinking the night before), the Japanese new low angle torpedo (US Navy didn't know Japan had it and assumed that battleship were safe in the harbor).
Why was pearl harbor significant?
Pearl Harbor is generally regarded as an extraordinary event in American history, remembered as the first time that the America attack by the other country…JAPAN. It has become synonymous with "surprise attack" ever since in the U.S. Unfortunately, the mistakes of intelligence collection, sharing, and analysis leading to the Japanese success at Pearl Harbor did not, in the end, lead to lessons.
Why does Wells choose Martians to attack England in The War of the Worlds instead of a more familiar enemy such as the Germans?
Wells wanted to illustrate that England could be caught with its guard down. (Apex)
How did the attack on Pearl Harbor take us all by surprise?
The US had been taken surprise when the attacks on Pearl Harbor because previously the Japanese had tries to make peace with the United States but had not officially made peace with America so the Japanese attacked us in the early morning on a Sunday when most troops on guard had off on Sunday. America was attacked by Japan because the Emperor saw America as a nation of pleasure lovers and thought if they attacked the US that they would beg for a peace treaty but as we know now, that didn't work.
How did the Japanese attack Singapore in World War 2?
The Japanese entered Singapore via the Causeway from Malaysia. This caught the British off-guard as the British always prepared for a war from the seas.
Why was the US caught off guard at Pearl Harbor?
Because we had absolutely no reason to expect it. Michael Montagne You might want to read up a little on the history or Pearl Harbor. There was every reason to expect an attack was coming. The night before when "magic" intercepted a 14 point message to their diplomat Roosevelt declared "this means war". He predicted we would be at war before the next monday. Also before this, magic had intercepted and decoded many messages hinting at an attack at pear harbor. Look up the "bomb plot" information where spies were asked to divide the harbor into sections, label all ships when they were in port, when they berthed next to one another etc. There are many, many examples of hints of war. All you have to do is look it up.
