Pearl Harbor

It got bombed which led the U.S. to enter WWII.

"Force Z" was the British Battleship HMS Prince of Wales and Battlecruiser HMS Repulse sunk by Japanese ARMY twin engine bombers on 10 December 1941. The result of which, convinced Naval Officers world wide, that the Battleship no longer ruled the seas; AIRCRAFT now ruled the seas, via the Aircraft Carrier.

Chuichi Nagumo was the Japanese commander of the Pearl Harbor strike force. He played a significant role in the attack. Nagumo, however, refused to launch additional air attacks on dockyard and fuel tanks on Oahu or to seek out two US aircraft carriers at sea. He was never comfortable with the plan to attack the Pearl Harbor and limited his risks.

Domestically, puplic opinion within the USA would not allow it's leaders to openly get overtly involved in WW2, which up to that point, was seen as a European war many thousands of miles away! The USA was only sending food, supplies, military hardware to England, not troops. Then as now, the USA has a tendancy to be insular and body bags do not win votes!

By Japan sucessfully bombing Pear Harbour, it was the equivallent of '9/11'. Public opinion was changed overnight, the USA was from that point 100% committed to WW2. Without Pearl Harbour the history of the 20th Century would have been very different.

There is speculation that the US military was aware of Japan's intentions, through intercepted communications, of Japan's naval fleet, including aircraft carriers sailing for US shores. Not all the US fleet was in dock when Pearl Harbour was attacked! Only an attack on home soil of this magnitude would change US public opinion and so was Pearl Harbour a 'Sacrificial Lamb'?

Up until 1940 the US Pacific Fleet was based on the west coast of the continental US. President Roosevelt ordered the Fleet to remain in Hawaii, after the Fleet had maneuvers in Hawaiian waters in 1940. Roosevelt did this to send a signal to the Japanese of US concern over continued Japanese aggression, especially their invasion of China. The US had acquired Hawaii in the 1890s primarily as a "coaling station" for the coal fired, steam-powered ships of the navy. Admiral Kimmel commanded the US Fleet at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Normally an admiral held this post for two years. The man who had the job before Kimmel, Admiral Richardson, probably lost his job (after only a year in command of the Fleet) for protesting too vigorously the moving of the Fleet's base to Pearl Harbor. Richardson (and Kimmel) saw all too clearly that it would be almost impossible to defend the Fleet while it was anchored in Pearl Harbor. Also, there was only one way in or out of Pearl Harbor, a single narrow channel, and if a ship was sunk in this channel it would prevent the ships of the Fleet from going in or out, trapping any ships in the Harbor until the sunken ship could be removed, which might take months.

Richardson began, and Kimmel continued, a pattern of regular Fleet operations. About half the Fleet would go out for a week, and return for the weekend, and the next week, the other half would go out. It was impossible to conceal these regular movements. The Japanese had a diplomatic Consulate in Honolulu. Every consulate of every nation, then and now, includes spies. Everybody knows this but as long as they stay out of restricted areas, they are free to go as they please and observe whatever they can see.

This is one of the true keys to the Pearl Harbor disaster. The US Fleet's regular schedule of operations allowed the Japanese to guess, correctly, as it turned out, that most of the US Fleet would be present in the Harbor on any weekend.

In one respect the US was very lucky - none of the US aircraft carriers were in the Harbor when the Japanese attackers appeared overhead.

Anti-Roosevelt politicians and historians have tried to make much of Roosevelt's decision to move the Fleet to this forward base in Hawaii, in support of their thesis that Roosevelt was trying to maneuver the Japanese into attacking the US, so the US could get into the war. This ignores the facts that the Japanese planned meticulously, innovated with genius, and trained very hard to make their attack a success. A task force which performed the stunning attack on Pearl Harbor could likely have done just as well if the Fleet was in Puget Sound or Long Beach, on the west coast.

They used a shock and awe method of surprising the US Naval Fleet who was unprepared for any attack. They were to totally disable the USN fleet and the airplanes. They did that but did not get the aircraft carriers not realizing they were away from Pearl Harbor conducting maneuvers.

The attack by the Japanese on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii was the event that caused the United States to enter World War II.

The Japanese motives for its attack on the US base and US units in Hawaii (known as the Pearl Harbor attack) on December 7, 1941:

To prevent the US Pacific Fleet & other US military forces from interfering in the Japanese plans for aggression in China, Dutch East Indies, Malaysia, South Pacific, etc.

The Japanese Navy leaders incorrectly assumed that if they could deliver a 'knock-out punch' against the US battleships & aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor, then the US government would not have the will power or public support to fight a long & costly war to defeat Japan.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted to control the Pacific Ocean.
The Japanese purpose was to destroy Pearl Harbor to make the Americans force less, useless and purposeless. The outcome resulted in the opposite.
So that US would surrender and not fight back in WW2.
Essentially, the Japanese attack the US Navy at Pearl Harbor so that the United States would not be able to interfere with Japan's expansion in the Pacific. While the attack slowed the US response, it did not prevent intervention.

Explains and develops the main idea.

Yes it is leaking oil. Unfortunately, until this begins to impact Hawaii's tourism industry, it is unlikely that anything will be done until the hull is breached and oil erupts into the water where the wreck lies.

Pearl Harbor is located on the southern side of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.

People could argue about a top 5 list until the cows come home. Lists tend to reflect the viewpoint of a person's country. For example, about two-thirds of European fighting was on the Soviet front, but British and US histories often gloss over this.

In the top twenty, I suggest the following might appear:

Fall of France 1940 (Germans routed British and French)

El Alemein (turning point for the war in Africa)

Fall of Singapore (Japanese routed British and Australians)

Siege of Leningrad

Siege of Moscow

Stalingrad (turning point on the Eastern Front)

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

The Japanese attacked the US for two reasons:

1. the US was a growing Pacific Power, meaning it was gaining more and more influence and land in the Pacific, which threatened Japan and it's imperialistic ego. The Japanese wanted to establish an empire over all of Asia and the Pacific.

2. the US cut off all trade to Japan because of Japan's rising aggression. These American items were crucial to Japan.

Also, the attack on Pearl Harbor was not for the Japanese to gain Hawaii or to declare war on the US. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a message from Japan to the US saying "this is as far as you're allowed to go". Meaning, this was the farthest extent of the Pacific that the Japanese would peacefully let the US expand, as the Pacific was to be left for Japan. However, the US did not like this and then declared war, entering World War II. They were eventually able to make Japan surrender in 1945.

At this point, item No. 2 does not lend itself to providing a motive for attacking Pearl Harbor. If item No. 2 was correct then not only would these "items" of trade never get to Japan, it would only give Japan another "headache" even as much as it would seem the Pacific Ocean afforded Japan any protection. Of course, it was a "given" that the Philippines would be lost to Japan.

yes. The USS Arizona exploded and sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

To neutrlise it as an Allied base.

Mostly because Neither Britain nor France was ready, willing or able to go to war again to stop Germany. Both had suffered great losses in the First World War, which had only been over eighteen years when Hitler made his first moves in 1935. The people of both nations were still sick of the very idea of war, still heartisck over lost loved ones and friends, bitter and disillusioned that nothing much seemed to have been gained for so much awful sacrifice. There was a worldwide economic despression, and military spending in both countries had been given a low priority, while Hitler was able to insist on acquiring tanks, planes, ships and so on, which also gave jobs in heavy industry and made him even more popular at home. Hitler could have been squashed like the bug he was in 1935, when he remilitarized the Rhinleland and started a German Air Force, both forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. But neither Britain nor France had the political will to do anything to stop him, and the people in general were firmly against getting on the path to more conflict and bloodshed. By 1939, Germany was much stronger and far advanced in rearming, and the task thus was much more difficult.

Pearl harbor was a part of world war 2

The names of the three ships are the NINA the PINTA and the SANTA MARIA there aren't any nicknames

Pearl Harbor is a Navy base in Hawaii. As the Japanese attacked it in 1941, United States entered WW2. In august 6 and 9 1945 was when the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Both audiences were made up of US citizens.