Pearl Harbor

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Due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a wave of prejudice arose against Japanese Americans due to their resemblance to our enemies. This led to their interment in isolated camps for up to four years.

The US government knew the Japanese were going to attack the US and assume that the attack would take place at Pearl Harbor. The US Navy had been practicing for the attack for 20 + years. The surprise of the attack included the time of the attack (a Sunday morning when most US sailors were on leave or hung over from drinking the night before), the Japanese new low angle torpedo (US Navy didn't know Japan had it and assumed that battleship were safe in the harbor).

1. In the summer of 1940 Roosevelt ordered the Pacific to relocate from the West Coast to Hawaii. When its commander, Admiral Richardson, protested that Pearl Harbor offered inadequate protection from air and torpedo attack he was replaced.

2. On October 7 1940 Navy IQ analyst McCollum wrote an eight-point memo for Roosevelt on how to force Japan into war with U.S., including an American oil embargo against Japan. All of them were eventually accomplished.

3. On 23 June 1941 - one day after Hitler's attack on Russia - Secretary of the Interior and FDR's Advisor Harold Ickes wrote a memo for the President in which he pointed out that "there might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a situation as would make it not only possible but easy to get into this war in an effective way. And if we should thus indirectly be brought in, we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communistic Russia."

4. On 18 October Ickes noted in his diary: "For a long time I have believed that our best entrance into the war would be by way of Japan."

5. The U.S. had cracked key Japanese codes before the attack. FDR received "raw" translations of all key messages. On 24 September 1941 Washington deciphered a message from the Naval Intelligence HQ in Tokyo to Japan's consul-general in Honolulu, requesting grid of exact locations of U.S. Navy ships in the harbor. Commanders in Hawaii were not warned.

6. Sixty years later the U.S. Government still refuses to identify or declassify many pre-attack decrypts on the grounds of "national security"!

7. On November 25 Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his diary that FDR said an attack was likely within days, and asked "how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without too much danger to ourselves. In spite of the risk involved, however, in letting the Japanese fire the first shot, we realized that in order to have the full support of the American people it was desirable to make sure that the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt in anyone's mind as to who were the aggressors."

8. On November 25 FDR received a "positive war warning" from Churchill that the Japanese would strike against America at the end of the first week in December. This warning caused the President to do an abrupt about-face on plans for a time-buying modus vivendi with Japan and it resulted in Secretary of State Hull's deliberately provocative ultimatum of 26 November 1941 that guaranteed war.

9. On November 26 Washington ordered both US aircraft carriers, the Enterprise and the Lexington, out of Pearl Harbor "as soon as possible". This order included stripping Pearl of 50 planes or 40 percent of its already inadequate fighter protection. On the same day Cordell Hull issued his ultimatum demanding full Japanese withdrawal from Indochina and all China. U.S. Ambassador to Japan called this "The document that touched the button that started the war."

10. On November 29 Hull told United Press reporter Joe Leib that Pearl Harbor would be attacked on December 7. The New York Times reported on December 8 ("Attack Was Expected," p. 13) that the U.S. knew of the attack a week earlier.

11. On December 1 Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI, 12th Naval District in San Francisco found the missing Japanese fleet by correlating reports from the four wireless news services and several shipping companies that they were getting signals west of Hawaii.

12. On 5 December FDR wrote to the Australian Prime Minister, "There is always the Japanese to consider. Perhaps the next four or five days will decide the matters."

More information and evidence: http://rationalrevolution.net/war/fdr_provoked_the_japanese_attack.htm

The cutting off of oil supplies caused the Japanese to look elsewhere. To avoid the US Warships from interferring with that searching for "elsewheres", they had to be eliminated, the attack on Pearl.

They bombed pearl harbor. It was attacked in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by Japenese bombers and planes.

Because they made up 1/3 of a multi-racial society, irrational fear fueled their prejudices which lead to the evacuation and interment of the Japanese-American communities.

Preexisting conditions started decades before the war. When Orientals started emigrating to Hawaii and the West Coast, which included people coming from China, Korea, the Philippine, and Japan, prejudices induced by fear permeated in American society. Ignorance of cultural differences and fears of taking jobs from the American population ignited violent outbreaks from the labor force as well as the American Legion. In 1907, the Gentlemen's Agreement between Japan and the US prevented further immigration for men but allowed wives to immigrate. However, in 1924, the Immigration Act banned ALL Orientals from immigrating to the US.

When the Japanese military invaded China in 1937, the American public again began to feel uneasy having a population of about 120,000 people of Japanese origin living on the West Coast. And when Pearl Harbor ensued, it solidified people's fears and prejudices. Immediately after the news of Pearl Harbor, men without citizenship were hauled off by the FBI and sent to mock trails of espionage. Bank accounts were frozen for their families. They were required to turn in all items that were considered a danger to society such as short wave radios, guns, knives, and binoculars. A curfew was imposed. The Chinese had to wear a tag that stated they were NOT Japanese. Rumors plagued the media which insinuated espionage up and down the coast line.

Then on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed executive Order 9066 which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington. Thus the evacuation began and placed all people who had Japanese blood into internment camps, including those with only one sixteenth.

I have read in a few books that the weather was nice. You will find it was 'tropical' on the page I found that mentions the weather prior to the attack.

At this time Japan was ingaged in a war against China, which was part of thri plan to make japan a colonial power like Britain, France and the United states were.
In response to Japanese aggression in China and Indochina, the United States and Britain had placed an embargo on shipments of machinery, fuel and other resources to Japan in 1940. This meant that the Japanese would be forced to give up their attempts to conquer China. Since they could not do it without these resources. Japan decided that they would have to take the resources that the Americans would not give them, and this would mean war.

Had to find them first. That's one of the reasons carriers are great weapons; they can move.

Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.

They must have been political would seem that we are to think that the Japanese thought that they could beat the Americans in a war. Perhaps the Germans who were their ally gave them some sort of guarantee fro attacking the US fleet as they did declare war on the US directly after the Attack. I guess the real reason for this will probably never be known as there was no way that the Japs were stupid enough to think that they could beat the Americans in a war.

Although the principles of long range attack using aircraft carriers was well known in American military circles, the nation was still stunned by the Japanese. The American's had heard the warnings, but did not think the Japanese could successfully pull off such a daring and secretive attack with enough force to sink a major fleet. They were wrong. The American reaction was near panic. There was widespread fear that the Japanese were going to invade California, even though their offensive abilities are now known to have been stretched just reaching Hawaii. The American reaction was to imprison all Japanese-Americans, an illegal move that still draws criticism. Fears of Japanese bombing reached as far as Kansas. Once the initial confusion and panic settled, the country went quickly about the business of building a giant war machine with which to get 'pay back' on the Japanese. Huge numbers of men volunteered for duty, but not enough for the demands of the war, thus many millions had to be drafted. Industrial plants all over the country that had been idled by the depression were suddenly humming due to military contracts. America was lucky to have two of the great military minds of the era with which to battle the Japanese - MacArthur and Nimitz. These two devised a plan that successfully destroyed the Japanese navy, broke their defensive perimeter, and ultimately cause the entire Japanese Empire to collapse.

According to the National Park Service, there were 1998 Navy personnel, 109 Marines, 233 Army personnel and 48 civilians killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. This comes to a total of 2388 Americans killed. This number may not include casualties from attacks or inaccurate targeting of other sites

pretty much. after the world war two ended everybody was excited and surrendered except for the Japanese they didn't want to except that it was over. so the U.S wanted to try and get them to give up by dropping bombs.

Pearl Harbor is basically what got the US directly involved in WWII because the Japanese were in talks with America about a truce although no truce was actually declared. they then broke down the talks of peace with America and they bombed pearl harbor and wiped out most of the American pacific fleet. America then retaliated with the doolittle raid others and war continued until America dropped the first atom bomb on hiroshima and japan surrendered

The US didn't directly attack anybody. Japanese ships atacked a patrol, thus leading to the famous Battle at Midway.

FDR was right about trying to be prepared for war. He encouraged the build-up of war supplies. Some individuals still clung to the thin thread of false hope; that the war would end without American intervention. That soon changed after Pearl Harbor. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, war with the Axis powers was inevitable.

Iron/steel for bombs, artillery shells; oil to run Japan's war machines (airplanes, tanks, warships), copper & lead for bullets. Anything that would further Japan's conquests were stopped.

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Chief among the detractors of the attack on the U.S. was the man in overall charge of the operation, Admiral Yamamoto. He knew that the attack would only buy him some time to do what he wanted in the Pacific but that eventually the U.S. would hit them like the proverbial ton of bricks (that's my interpretation :) However, he was duty and honor bound to support his government and ultimately his emperor in their endeavours.

Yamamoto himself said " I feel as if we have awakened a sleeping giant."

Some people speculate that if the Japanese had sent in the fourth wave of attacks, designed to destroy the petroleum storage tanks at Ford Island, that the Japanese would have gained even more time in their efforts to conquer the Pacific Rim.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President from 1933-1945, serving four terms two of which were during World War 2. The biggest hardship that he had to face was being diagnosed with Polio.

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