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It wasn't so much the geographical features that made them hard to defend; the U.S. had a much better Navy than the Japanese, which made it easy for them to attack the Japanese positions on land with artillery shells from their cannons and machine guns.

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Why did Americans believe Japan would not attack on American soil?

Americans believed Japan would not attack on American soil because they thought Japan would not risk provoking the United States into entering World War II. Additionally, there was a belief that Japan's military capabilities were not strong enough to launch a successful attack on American territory.


Who told the US that China would attack Pearl Harbor?

China did not attack Pearl Harbor, Japan did.


Why it was unwise for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor?

The aim of the Pearl Harbor attack was to cripple the US Pacific Fleet so that the US would not have any opportunity to wage war against Japan. The US would then realise it could not defeat Japan and make peace without the need to fight a war. This strategy failed because the attack enraged the US, ensuring that it would fight Japan, and because it failed to completely cripple the US Pacific Fleet (in particular, none of the aircraft carriers were damaged, and all of them would be used against Japan).


What would the consequinces be if Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor?

The US would then not attack Japan and Battle of Mid-Way,Naval Blockade on Japan Mainland,US would not join the Allies and dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man would not take place. However, the colonial master of South East Asia like Britain, France (In Indo-China,Now is termed as Vietnam),Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and USA (Phillipines) would simply attack Japan when Hitler and Mussolini failed their mission and Japan might lose because Russia by then had also declared war on Japan, invading Manchuria which was the important income source.


The us was unprepared for the attack on pearl harbor because the government belived that japan would what?

Reach an agreement

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What got us into war with japan?

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Who told the US that China would attack Pearl Harbor?

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