What are the differences of the attack of Pearl Harbor and September 11?

Answer 1

Both were unexpected, both were an attempt to force their ideology on the world (Japanese wanted to control the Pacific islands and make everyone answerable to the Emperor), both resulted in war.

Both occurred on what was considered US Territory.

Both had very deaths tolls in the thousands excluding attackers

2,402 at Pearl Harbor

more than 6000 people died on 9/11 as an update of latest death tolls

Also, both had their final phase of the planned attack aborted (though neither of these would have be more severe in themselves than what had already happened).

also these attacks were by other people who had a different nationally
Yes: 1. Both were surprise attacks 2. Both were air attacks 3. Both on US soil 4. Both against important/large targets 5. Both had the same approximate casualties 6. Both angered the US population 7. Both resulted in a global war

Answer 2

There were not the same. The Japanese only attacked by air and although causing many sinking of ships and lost souls there were no prisoners taken. During the Holocaust there were concentration camps where Jews, Gypsies and anyone who went against the Nazi order were placed. This also included torture and starvation along with separation of families. There were over 6 millions Jews killed in the Holocaust and that isn't the correct number; there were more! Answer

For every person killed at Pearl Harbor no less than 3,000 died in the holocaust. The Pearl Harbor attack was a strategic and military endeavor

aimed at producing a political result. The Holocaust was a political genocide without any strategic or military value. It wasted resources and manpower. It was not cost effective. Pearl Harbor was a risky engagement and yet it had a strategic military concept to back it up. These two historical events have different motivations. Pearl Harbor's attack was cost effective in terms of international warfare.

Answer 3

Both cases were sneak attacks, both cases happened without an explicit declaration of war, both cases happened without warning, both cases were cowardly and undeserving, both events involved the use of airplanes, and both events consist of the only two aerial attacks on U.S. soil that devastated properties and killing thousands of U.S. citizens. In addition, in both cases, the U.S. was given hints that something up was coming. It's just hard connect the dots and put it into picture.

Answer 4

Pearl Harbor was an attack on a military target; September 11 was primarily an attack against undefended civilian targets, though the Pentagon was hit too.

Pearl Harbor was an attack by another nation; September 11 was an attack by an organization, not a country. There was no "return address" as in the case of Pearl Harbor, no nation against whom to go to war to obtain revenge. At least, that's how September 11 is portrayed in the US, though fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi Arabian. The US counts Saudi Arabia as a firm ally in the Middle East so this fact is ignored or downplayed.

Pearl Harbor had as its goal a strategic military objective and purpose, to so damage the US Fleet that it could not interfere with Japan's plans for Asian conquest. The September 11 attacks had no strategic goal, the plan was merely to murder as many Americans as possible for the terror effect, and to strike at targets seen as symbolic of America - the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, the US Capital. This was to show US vulnerability and to express the hatred felt by Muslims and Arabs to the US.

Answer 5

Similarities: More than 2,000 people were killed by attacks from the air by foreign people. Both events were unpredictable, both attacks resulted in the deaths of mainly non-combatants, both events happened as a result of intelligence failure, both events were sneak attacks, both events targeted mainly U.S. citizens, both events resulted in the deaths of mainly U.S. citizens, both events happened without explicit declaration of war, both events happened without warning, and both events propelled the U.S. into war. Both events also had repercussions upon the ethnic minority groups, Japanese-Americans living in the U.S. in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II were interned based on the wild belief that most of them were were spies for the Japanese government while Muslim-Americans in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks were mainly targeted based on the belief they were affiliated with the Al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups, regardless whether they truly were or not.

Differences: Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor was attacked by a state actor (Japan). The attack required the entire military resources of Japan. On the fateful "Day of Infamy" on the morning of December 7, 1941, 353 Japanese warplanes - most of the pilots were properly uniformed and had proper insignia in their planes belonging to where they came from - attacked a naval base for two hours, killing 2,402 people, the vast majority of the casualties as well as property destroyed were from the military. Only 48-68 civilians lost their lives during the attack. The Japanese didn't bomb Pearl Harbor just to inflict as much casualties or to spread terror, they bombed it to cripple our Pacific Fleet so we won't interfere with their operations in the Pacific. We also had a nation to go to war against with.

9/11: 9/11 was attacked by a bunch of criminals representing no government but a non-state actor (Al-Qaeda). The attack on 9/11 required only a hand full of Islamic zealots with some basic flight training, 19 airline tickets and some sharp instruments. On the fateful day on the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial civilian airliners were hijacked by Islamic non-properly uniformed terrorists, three of which were used as missiles against symbols of American free enterprise - strength (the North and South Tower - two purely civilian targets - in New York City and the Pentagon - a military command and control center - in Arlington County, Virginia) and the attack lasted than more than two hours. The WTC was the first to be attacked followed by the attack on the Pentagon an hour after after the WTC was brought down. The fourth one was supposed to be heading for the White House but instead crashed in the field near Indian Lake and Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, thanks to the heroic efforts by the passengers in the airliner to stop that from happening. In the aftermath, 2,977 victims were killed, the vast majority of the casualties as well as property destroyed were civilians (372 of the dead were non-U.S. citizens excluding the 19 perpetrators who also died in the attack in their suicide mission) though 55 military personnel were killed at the Pentagon. The purpose of 9/11 was to produce as much maximum non-combatant casualties as possible in response to our foreign policies as well as the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia which many Muslims thought the presence of Western troops was an insult to their religious beliefs. Unlike Pearl Harbor, we had no nation to go to war against with since terrorist groups were spreaded everywhere around the world.

Answer 6

Both events were in the morning, and on American soil. The attempt in 41 was a military attempt to undermine our Navy so Japan could attempt to take over the US and its resources. The attack in 01 was a religious war attacking not only our economy, but also the economy of many other countries around the world.

Answer 7

Both infamous events occurred without warning or a Declaration of War ; the two were surprise attacks .

Answer 8

yo mama conducted it! no im kidding, but you must asking this to trol us.... both involved planes crashing into stuff.