This quote comes from the movie, "Tora, Tora, Tora," uttered by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. However, there is no historical basis for this quote.
Per the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! Its a sleeping giant.
They woke a sleeping giant. The same giant that that went back to sleep on VE day and VJ Day and could not be roused since.
According to legend; Japanese Admiral Yamamoto called the USA: "A sleeping giant who would be awakened with a terrible resolve" after the unannounced attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor via airstrike.
No. He was in the US Army but not at Pearl Harbor during the attack.
In the words of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was the genius behind Japan's early naval successes during World War II including the attack at Pearl Harbor, the effect was to "awaken a sleeping giant".
Per the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! Its a sleeping giant.
because the main goal in the bombing of pearl harbor was to hit the aircraft carriers. but they were out at sea. there for the only outcome of pearl harbor was sinking battleships and waking up the sleeping giant that the USA.
The famous quote, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve," is attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
They woke a sleeping giant. The same giant that that went back to sleep on VE day and VJ Day and could not be roused since.
To catch everybody sleeping.
The Japanese won the attack on Pearl Harbor but in the end they should not have bit the sleeping dragon's tail.
we have awoken a giant.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor via airstrike.
According to legend; Japanese Admiral Yamamoto called the USA: "A sleeping giant who would be awakened with a terrible resolve" after the unannounced attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
It united the people of the US. It awakened the sleeping giant (the US) and pushed the US into war - something we had been valiently trying to resist.
Admiral Yamamoto of japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The quote was shortened in the movie- what he actually said was, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."[