Pearl Harbor

The Japanese believed that the citizens of the United States were too racially impure to be able to endure such an attack, especially while involved in a war in Europe. They wanted to control the Pacific and believed that they could force the U.S. out of Hawaii by bombing our interests. Instead, the bombing of Hawaii only caused the U.S. to declare war on Japan and eventually resulted in the death of so many innocent people.

Well lets see. Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor, a US military installation, so we retalitiated with Japan, who was already in the war. So the U.S. then dropped nukes on Japan then ended the war, because we are the shiznit.

japan launched a suprise assault on pearle harbor on dec 7th i believe. they bombed the smalll island which was at the time was home dock for many of Americas navel fleet. the bombing was unexpected an led to many ships of Americas fleet to be sunk killing many sailers. this act by japan is what brought USA into WW2.

best i can do from what i remember of history class ;)

After World War II all of Japans war equipment, planes, hsip weapons, etc, was scrapped, and the industries that made them were dismantled as well. Furthermore Japan passed laws that made the commitment that Japan would never again wage aggressive war against any other nation.

That it was a "sneak" attack. Most people are not well versed in military science. Surprise/Sneak attacks are one of the basic elements of warfare. However, prior to the atomic age...total wars were the only types of wars that were fought (Limited Wars-limited to non-atomic weapons DIDN'T EXIST). And total wars were traditionally accompanied by a "Declaration of War." Not having a formal "Declaration of War" meant "dirty fighting" to the minds of US citizens, and most people in general during those times.

The date that Roosevelt gave the speech was December 18, 1941. The time he gave his speech I do not know. Sorry. : )

You can listen to his speech on this web site www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html.

World War Two World War Two Answer On the same day that American territory was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked the territory of the Philllippines, which lead to the fall of Corregidor. Do not forget the attacks and invasions of Wake Island and Guam, both US properties!

The US Army commander was Lt. Gen. Walter Short. The Navy commander was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel.

Overall commander for the Japanese was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Yamamoto was also the man who came up with the idea for the Peral Harbor attack. He did not want to go to war with the Americans, but thought that if the Japanese could knock out the American fleet early the Japanese might gain enough time to take Pacific islands and construct a defensive perimeter the Americans couldn't break.

Admiral Chuichi Nagumo commanded the carrier strike force that launched the Pearl Harbor attack.

Chester Nimitz

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Husband E. Kimmel was in command on Dec 7, 1941. Chester Nimitz took command over on Dec 31, 1941

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I think the bombing of pearl harbour was a mistake. America was pulled into the war because of it and they went on to provide weapons and equipment for the Allies and made the A-Bomb that made Japan surrender. If America had not entered the war it would have been very different. All the bombing did was make America furious. They rebuilt their navy and were, in my opinion the best group of soldiers in the war.

Honolulu International is the closest airport to Pearl Harbor. (Pearl Harbor is what is sounds like- a harbor for ships. )

The Military airfields at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack were Ford Island Naval Air Station (adjacent to Battleship Row), and Hickam Field (next to Honolulu and the entrance to Pearl Harbor). Wheeler Field, a major US Army Air Force installation at the center of the island of Oahu, was also severely attacked, as was Bellows Field (on the South East edge of Oahu), Kaneohe Naval Air Station (Eastern Oahu coast) and Ewa Marine Corps Air Station (on the western edge of Pearl Harbor bay).

Kaneohe is now a state park, Bellows a military recreation area, and Ewa was abandoned in the 1950s. Wheeler is a National Historic Landmark as well as a training base for the Army now. Ford Island NAS is now a Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, and, as such, operates almost exclusively general aviation flights. Hickam Field is still a major US Air Force Base, home of the US Pacific Air Forces command.

Honolulu International Airport is located immediately adjacent to the city of Honolulu, and is on the southern ocean coast, right next to the entrance to Pearl Harbor. The new general-aviation airport of Kaneohe is located on the South West corner of Oahu, a couple of miles from the Pearl Harbor entrance.

Sell their land.

The Gentlemen's Agreement. It was not a formal treaty. Theodore Roosevelt also mediated the resolution of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, causing America to join WW2. America started to attack Japan and eventually dropped the two attomic bombs in Japan, ending the war.

Hawaii was in a good location for the US Navy. And some American businessmen wanted the United States to claim the land.

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The Japanese first attacked the Philippines, a few hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 8, 1941 (Philippines time).

There was no spy, the u.s. found out by intercepting radio messages, and decoding them, a message was received saying that japan would attak AF,so we sent the message of, midway is out of fresh water, japan then responded to their troops, AF is out of fresh water, this is how we knew of an attack.

The Japanese goal in attacking Pearl Harbor was to do enough damage to the US Fleet that the US could not interfere with the main Japanese plan. The main plan was the "southern operation". This was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia) for the abundant oil there, and British Malaya (now Malaysia) for the rubber, and other parts of southeast Asia, for the natural resources they needed to feed their war machine.

The Japanese believed the US would go to war with Japan over this wave of invasions. The Philippine Islands were a US possession at the time, and the US had a major air base and navy base there. The Japanese planned to conquer the Philippines at the same time as they were attacking all their other targets, to neutralize US forces there and prevent US interference. The Japanese were divided over whether to also attack the US Fleet in Hawaii. They were already going to be spread pretty thin, and an attack on Hawaii would divert the main striking power of the Japanese Navy from supporting the southern operation. Admiral Yamamoto though believed the only chance for victory the Japanese had was to paralyze the Americans with a powerful strike that would buy the Japanese six months time to complete their conquests. This was just about exactly what he got from the Pearl Harbor attack. The Japanese hoped that when the Americans saw what the Japanese had done, the Americans would just give up and let them keep their conquests.

Some of the more aggressive younger officers involved in planning the attack wanted to land troops in Hawaii and conquer these islands as well. This would deny the use of the islands as a base for any American counter offensives. But this was never part of the plan. The Japanese already had enough to do with four simultaneous invasions plus the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Since the Japanese goal was only to damage the US Fleet, they ignored some very high value targets, damage to which might have helped them quite a bit as the war went on. Specifically, they did not target at all the fuel farm at Pearl Harbor, the drydock, or the submarine base. If they had seriously damaged the drydock repair of battle damaged US ships would have to be done 2200 miles farther east, on America's west coast. If they had destroyed the fuel farm it would have been impossible for the fleet to continue being based in Pearl Harbor, and the entire US Pacific Fleet would have had to withdraw to and operate from the west coast. During the war US submarine sailors amounted to 1% of the US Navy, but they sank 55% of Japanese ships sunk. Damage to the machine and repair shops at the submarine base within Pearl Harbor would have very seriously hampered this effort. But the Japanese ignored all these targets and concentrated on warships.

There were thousands of people stationed at Pearl Harbor.

The height of the USS Arizona (BB-39) could be measured from the deck to the top of the masts. But the Arizona was modified several times during her service before being sunk at Pear Harbor in 1941. The last substantial refitting took place in the 1930's, and new tripod masts were added. These set her total height to something on the order of 105 feet. This distance would be from the main deck to the top of the aft mast, and would not include any antenna on the top of the mast.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 as "a date which will live in infamy." He made the comment on the day after the attack, in an address before a joint session of Congress. Roosevelt asked the Congress to approve a declaration of war against Japan.

FDR wanted the US to go to war but many people wanted to follow the path of Isolation---which meant they did not want to be involved in any European war. The attack rallied the Americans to go to war.

Pearl harbor. Hitler killing jews. Invasion of poland. America is allies with france. America had to help allies.

The Japanese ARMY was NOT involved with the attack. Pearl Harbor was a NAVAL campaign. The "goal" of the Imperial Navy was to eliminate the USN Battlefleet stationed at Pearl Harbor.