Pearl Harbor

There were no British ships in Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941 or any British warships anwhere near Hawaii on that date. Only American warships were allowed in Pearl Harbour.

Two atomic bombs was drop on Japan at the end of the second World War. The first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki

Japanese leadership did not believe that the Americans were racially "pure" enough to endure their attack. They truly believed that we would just give up and let them take over the Pacific. The response from the Allied forces was far more than they expected. They believed that Germany would defeat the Allies in Europe, and that there would be little of the Allied military forces left to do battle in the Pacific. They learned what the U.S. and other Allied forces were capable of doing when the Japanese military effort was destroyed in every Pacific battle. They miscalculated again when they believed that the Allied forces would not be willing to occupy Japan. They wanted to force terms of surrender that would allow the Japanese military to remain intact and allow Japan to rebuild and take over the Pacific at a later time, after they had learned from their earlier mistakes. The Japanese military was willing to allow millions of Japanese citizens to die by sending them to their death, defending the Japanese beaches with pitchforks, swords and sticks against the invading Allied forces. The belief was that the Allies would not be willing to fight that battle and that the Japanese would remain soverign. Instead, the Allied forces were determined to win this war and never be required to fight it again. They had learned their lesson from Germany at the end of WW1 and vowed to make their enemy incapable of fighting at any time in the near future. Japan did not expect that reaction.

The USS Oklahoma turned on its side, the USS Utah completely capsized and I believe the cruiser the Oglala came close to completely capsizing as well. Those are the ships I know about for sure.

source: Day of Infamy - Walter Lord

World War II was important because it gave millions of people jobs which gave them money to spend. As a final restult America emerged as a leading economic and military power.

since the U.S. navy was able to repair the battle ships in a few months they were able to attack fairly quickly. also the aircraft carriers which were the main target were at sea on a training run at the time of attack

President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The attack took place while the inhabitants of the military base were asleep, this left them vulnerable hence making the attack so effective.

Economic sanctions against Japan refer to restrictions imposed by one or more countries or international organizations to limit Japan's access to certain goods, services, or financial transactions. These sanctions are typically used as a tool to influence Japan's behavior in areas such as trade, human rights, or national security. Examples of economic sanctions against Japan in the past include restrictions on the export of certain technologies or limitations on access to financial markets.

We had to get all of our naval vessels out of mothballs. Many had been decommissioned and designated for destruction. Many of these same vessells saw extensive conflict in the South Seas.

December 7, 1941 which was a Sunday.
December 7, 1941,

The Great White Fleet was used by Roosevelt to show the growing American military power. The fleet circumnavigated the globe between December 1907 and February 1909.

On Dec 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was DAMAGED not "Destroyed."

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The Pearl Harbor attack occurred December 7th, 1941.

Countries involved in the Kokoda Track were Australia and Japan.

Plans were formulated in early 1941; Aircrewmen commenced their training for the operation in the Spring of 1941.

They were Japanese people with no other races mixed into their generations. However, though they were purebred genetically the younger generations were AMERICANS legally because they were born in the USA. There were third and fourth generations (just babies) in the internment camps. There were Japanese labels for these generations called Issei, Nisei, Sansei and Yonsei. See the related links below.

Pearl harbor was caused by America not sending oil and other supplies to Japan for fear they would use them against us!

There were NO Japanese Soldiers involved with the attack. The attack was conducted by Japanese AIRCREWMEN. Soldiers fight on the ground. Airmen fight in the sky. Sailors fight on the sea. Marines are NAVAL INFANTRY.

NO! It was Japan and America!

the significance of the attack on Pearl Harbor was that first off it brought America into the war and secondly it destroyed allmost all of our Pacific Fleet which have to be repaired before we could do anything in the Pacific

Altogether there are 113 seas (if you include the landlocked seas, 110 if you do not).

One ton, around 2000 pounds. Actually it was a shell made for the big guns of a battleship, an armored piercing shell. These had a specially hardened tip and a thick casing, to allow them to smash through the armor of a battleship's deck, and a slight delay fuse, so that the shell would travel some feet into the interior of the target ship before detonating. The Japanese had hit on the idea of fitting fins to these 15-inch armor-piercing battleship shells and dropping them from several thousand feet using a crude bombsight to aim them. By dropping them from that height the shells would be traveling just as fast as if they had been fired from a battleship's guns when they impacted the target, allowing them to smash through the armor. They used some of their torpedo planes as these "high level" bombers for this job. The torpedo planes were the largest carrier aircraft, with the biggest engines, so they could carry their usual armament, which was one torpedo, which also weighed one ton. The torpedo bombers did most of the damage to the US battleships in Pearl Harbor, in their designed role of launching torpedoes (just like those fired by submarines) into the sides of battleships, and also the one which hit the Arizona. That particular hit penetrated deep into the vitals of the American ship and set off the black powder magazine. This was full of black powder charges used to propel the ship's small observation plane down its short rail catapult into the air. This black powder magazine was located just outside the magazine for the second turret forward of the Arizona. This main battery magazine had steel walls more than one foot thick but still the explosion somehow flashed through - probably through a handling scuttle, something like the drawer at the drive-through window at a bank - and caused the Arizona's own propellant for her main battery shells to explode - more than one million pounds of explosive, instantly destroying the front half of the ship, causing it to bounce six feet out of the water, and killing nearly 1200 crewmen - about half of all those killed in the attack.

Pear harbor was prepared for an air raid and submarines attacks.The main cause of what happened there was that the soldiers and sailors where not expecting a massive air attack by the japanesse forces. Remember that the Japanesse attacked with nearly 360 planes in two waves in just some couple of hours and neither our p-38 planes and the crews weres not ready to take out the japanesse dive bombers, to made things worse the 8 battleships and numerours cruisers and destroyers where stationed one next to other, creating an easy target to the attackers. Happily the 3 Aircraft carriers where very far fropm there, one in Wake Island deploying aircraft to the Alamo of the Pacific and 2 other supliying themselves in the east coast. A Visitor