Pearl Harbor

* Admiral Nagano Osami commanded the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff. * Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto commanded the Combined Fleet. * Captain Minoru Genda was in charge of the planning. * Admiral Chuichi Nagumo commanded the Mobile Unit in the attack. * Captain Mitsuo Fuchida commanded the First Wave in the attack. * Lieutenant-Commander Shigekazu Shimazaki led the Second Wave.

The USS Maine was a battleship that was anchored in Havanna Harbor when it blew up. The cause of the explosion is still not certain, but it was a catastrophie. The unexplained explosion was used as a catalyst to precipitate the US and Spain into a war.

Yes. The Japanese attack on Hawaii, including Pearl Harbor & several other US military installations on December 7, 1941 (Hawaii date/time) was part of the Second World War. The other simultaneous attacks by Japan in the Pacific-Asia areas occured on December 8th, because they were west of the International Date Line.

There were three major things that were no more than minorly damaged during the December 7th attack:

(1) drydock and ship repair facilities of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base

(2) Oil and fuel storage facilities around Pearl Harbor and the airbases

(3) Army and Navy communication and cryptography centers in Honolulu.

It turns out that any one of these three was far more important to the war effort than the total loss of life and ships suffered in the attack.

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Brandi, I am not sure what you actually mean. The United States and Hawaii signed a treaty in 1878 permitting the U.S. to establish a coaling and repair station at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898 and established a naval base there in 1908. The U.S. entry into World War II was precipitated by a Japanese attack on the base on Dec. 7, 1941. Does that answer your question or did you want to know something else? Michael Montagne

Although the USSR was officially our ally we did not really trust them because they were communist. However many of the scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project were communist spies and kept the USSR fully informed on practically everything about the atomic bomb.

Less than 2 hours.

go on google and see machuria, it was one of the maisteps to the 2ww

the citizens made the president put them in camps because they thought they wouldatack from the inside.

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Pearl Harbour in Hawaii was bombed by the japs in December 1941, and this effectively brought the USA into WWII.

Another bombing raid was mounted on Darwin, Australia in Feb 19 1942, but this is much less well known though it was a larger raid.

yes it did because stupid Japanese bombed pearl harbor and destroyed half the naval fleat

In 1947 the US Air Force separated from the US Army. In 1950 the US Army received it's FIRST fixed-wing airplane since the USAF went it's own separate way. The airplane was an all-metal top winged artillery observation plane which was named the O-1 Bird Dog. The "Dog" fought it's first war in Korea in 1950 as the L-19 (L=Liaison); then it's last war in Vietnam as the O-1 (O=Observation). In 1964 the US Army was directed by the DOD (Dept. of Defense) to transfer all of it's fixed-wing aircraft to the USAF...as the US Army transitioned to a rotor-wing force (Helicopter Force).

Well, Japan needed resources and we wouldn't really trade oil with them, Japanese didn't want US to join the war so they felt if they attacked then we wouldn't really fight back. Also, the Japanese felt they could beat the US. But you have to remember, there was a depression world wide and Japan needed their resources.

On the morning of December 7, 1941 350 Japanese planes attacked the base at Pearl Harbor and sunk ships and killed US sailors on the ships. Until 9-11 that was the only attack on US soil and just like we honor the people who died in NY we honor the men and women who died at Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was the start of the United States joining the allies in the war against Hitler and the Japanese. It became a two front war.

After the attack, the japanese had no means to recover. It took 15 years for the US to rebuild japan.

3 US battleships were never used again: US battleships USS Arizona and USS Utah still rest on the bottom of PH. Battleship USS Oklahoma was raised, sold for scrap (re-cycling) but sunk at sea while it was being towed back to California.

A typhoon off shore caused a "divine wind" or Kamikaze which dashed the ships on the rocks and spoiled the invasion.

OIL powered warships, tanks, and airplanes.

The immediate cause of US entry into WWII was of course the attack by the Japanese Navy on the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy, in its anchorage within the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, in the (then) US territory of Hawaii, on Decmber 7, 1941. The following day President Franklin Roosevelt addressed a joint session of congress and demanded a Declaration of War against the Empire of Japan, which congress immediately voted for, with but one dissenting vote. On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the US.

With regard to Japan the US had been critical of Japan's aggression against neghboring states since the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. (This followed a Japanese action in 1931 manufacturing an incident as a pretext for waging war against Manchuria, and after winning that war setting up a Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, which was renamed Manchukuo). In 1937, there were small US Naval vessels, gunboats, operating on the rivers of China. China had almost no roads and the river system, for thousands of years, was the means of transportation in China, and most major Chinese cities and the bulk of the Chinese people were living beside these great rivers. There were gunboats of several other nations there on the rivers as well. This had been the situation in China since around 1900. One of the US gunboats, the USS Panay, was bombed and sunk by Japanese airplanes in 1937, as she was tied up in the river alongside four US oil tankers, about 20 miles from Shanghai, which the Japanese were in the process of conquering. Several US sailors were killed in this attack against a US Navy ship, clearly marked with large American flags painted on awnings stretched over the deck. The Japanese airplanes machine gunned survivors in the water after the ship sank. The Japanese government apologized, paid reparations, and claimed it was a "mistake", so war was averted at that time. But the US continued to pressure the Japanese to stop their incursion and withdraw from China. The militarists running Japan were committed to a vision of Asia dominated by Japan, with the European and American Imperialists expelled, and were unable to back away from their plans for conquest. Japan became an ally of Germany and Italy in 1940, an alliance Germany probably sought because they hoped, when Germany went to war with the Soviet Union (Russia) Japan would join in and attack Russia from its Pacific coast, and repeat the beating the Japanese had given the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. In 1940 Germany conquered France and installed a puppet government there. This puppet government then "invited" the Japanese to occupy the French colony of Indochina (today this is Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, or Kampuchea). The Japanese occupied French Indochina in the summer of 1941, and this move provoked the US to cut off the sale of oil to Japan. Japan has no oil of her own, and to that point had relied on oil bought from the US to fuel her war machine. Oil is the lifeblood of a modern military. President Roosevelt never meant the oil embargo to be final and absolute - he wanted leverage, to be able to extract concessions from the Japanese. Of this the Japanese appeared to be unaware. The Japanese had only an 18 month supply of oil on hand, so it seemed they must either knuckle under to US pressure, stop conquering their neighbors, and give up the cherished dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" (with Japan as "First Among Equals"), or else come up with another source of oil. There was plenty of oil in the Dutch East Indies (Malaysia today). The Dutch were another European nation just conquered and occupied by Nazi Germany, and this was their colony. The Japanese decided to sieze the Dutch East Indies to secure this oil supply for themselves. But they worried that US military forces in the Philippine Islands might interfere. The Philippines were a US possession since 1898, taken from Spain in the Spanish-American War. So the Japanese decided to grab the Philippines at the same time as they took the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese warlords did not understand that, unlike themselves, at that time at least a US president could not take the US to war whenever he wanted to, and that no matter how many of some other nation's colonies Japan conquered the US people were not going to support a war with Japan over that issue alone. So the Japanese decided to do the one thing that would GUARANEE war with the US, by making a preemptive attack on the US, in its territory of the Philippines. The great Japanese Naval leader, Admiral Yamamoto, decided that as long as they Japanese were going to attack the US in the Philippines, they might as well go ahead and try to knock out the main naval strength of the US in the Pacific, which led to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Regarding Germany the US had likewise been critical of Nazi aggression and conquest of her neighbors. After 1940, Germany had beaten all enemies except Great Britain, and Great Britain was the only nation at war with Nazi Germany. The US sold, then basically gave supplies to the British to continue the fight. German submarines tried to sink all the ships carrying these supplies from the US to the UK. To combat the subs the ships sailed in groups called convoys, escorted by sub-chasing ships of the British Royal Navy. Then, the US Navy began doing the escorting to the middle of the Atlantic, where British sub-chasers met the convoys and took over. This led to German submarines torpedoing two US Navy sub-chasing destroyers, one of which sank, with heavy loss of life in both incidents. So there was an undeclared naval war between the US and Germany in the autumn of 1941, before Germany declared war on the US, after the US declared war on Japan in response to Pearl Harbor.