Pearl Harbor

The date was December 7, 1941 local Hawaiian date (east of the International Date Line). West of the International Date Line the date was December 8th. It was December 8th in Japan & Australia at the time that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor at Hawaii.

Tokyo by GEN Doolittle and his sixteen B-25 Mitchell Bombers launched from the deck of the USS Hornet in 1942 (See Film/Movie: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo). See website: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (These occurred in 1945).

Considering he rallied the US population into one solidified nation, brought the US out of a serious depression (the stockmarket crash of 1929 sent the US into a depression during the 1930's), defeated the most powerful enemies in the world at that time, and out-produced all of the world's nations in EVERYTHING; he made little to no mistakes worthy of note.

Actually, he made a mistake...In 1942, he signed an executive order that sent 110,000 Japanese Americans to interment camps in remote desert areas because U.S. officials were paranoid about the fact that these people were spies and secretly scheming with Japan (for a possible attack).

Russia declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945 and immediately attacked into Japanese held Manchuria.

Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii, a state in the US.
Pearl Harbor is the US Navy area west of Honolulu, Hawaii, part of a Joint Base with Hickam AFB.

The attack on Pearl Harbor meant America's navy would be unable to come over and defend Australia and other Asian countries from Japan's invasion. That was Japan's purpose when they attacked Pear Harbor, to allow a more easy invasion of Australasia without American interference.

Another Viewpoint:

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor meant that Australia's region had come under direct threat and Australia had to withdraw its forces from the war against Germany and bring them home. While Australia was attacked by air and submarine, the Japanese, having achieved their aim of taking over the resources of South East Asia, and being committed in China and the Pacific, had no capacity leftover to attack Australia, as much as we feared this might happen. The country went on a full war-economy and the reserve forces were called up for full-time duty. It became a base for the American army's campaign to retake the Philippines and contributed to preparations for the invasion of Japan.

An indication of Japan's inability to attack Australia was that the best force they could assemble to take over New Guinea was an infantry regiment and a scratch regiment of engineers and other troops - not one full division, while Australia had five infantry and three armored divisions even before the three AIF ones in the Middle East were brought home. The Japanese Navy was all for pressing on to Australia, but the Army gave a flat 'No' ass they had nothing spare - their troops were fully committed in Burma, South East Asia, China and the USSR border.

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in an attempt to knock out the U.S. Pacific fleet so the U.S. would not intervine in Japan's attempt to conquer other territories in the Pacific. Also it was in response to the U.S. decision to not send petrol to Japan and freezing Japan's money in American banks.

The military was the target; over 50% destroyed.

Because of the high population of Japanese living on the islands.

Personnel killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor are broken down as follows:

Navy - 1998, Marine Corps - 109, Army - 233, Civilian - 48, Japanese - 64

Of the US total, 1177 were sailors and marines from the USS Arizona.

(Some reference sources may have slight variations in these numbers)

a lot of people were killed

so they can trade more and get more policy power

Pearl Harbor got attacked on December,7,1941.

To my best knowledge: No!

I have never heard this. It was an entirely Japanese operation.

I watched a show today that stated Hitler did know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbour. In fact he made a speech that was given deliberately a few hours after the attack to the Nazi Party, just so it could be heard by the US and Japan. In his speech Hitler declared war on the US, the first time he declared war on a country he had not yet invaded.

The pioneer in aviation, the United States, was one of the earliest to experiment with flights from ships. France, US and Great Britain all developed sea plane tenders that serviced planes. The first true aircraft carrier was the HMS Ark Royal, a cruiser converted to a carrier.

The morality presented was that dropping the bomb would end the war and save more lives because the U.S. would not have to invade and fight through the cities there to subdue it. == The standard answer (and arguably most true) is that using the Atomic Bomb stopped the Japanese from fighting a protracted war for Japan. While a horrific thing to be sure the loss of life encountered by the dropping of 2 bombs was probably less than what would have been experienced in an island to island, to the last man war of attrition. Hindsight is always 20/20 and people can say all day that we shouldn't have done it, but the reality is that we did it and it can't be taken back. The other thing to consider here is that we warned Japan repeatedly that we were in possession of a weapon that would change the very face of war as we knew it, and that we were prepared to use it. The Japanese told the US to get bent, basically, and even after we dropped the first bomb they refused to surrender. I guess when you get down to brass tacks there really is nothing moral about war. It is a terrible thing to undertake and I think that the decision to use atomic weapons was the best option we had at the time. ==

most camps served the Japanese fruit syrup poured over rice, stew, and organ meats such as kidney, heart and liver.

Japan got involved in a war they should have just stayed out of. Japan bombed Hawaii. Then we bombed two of their cities to force them to surrender. And they eventually did surrender, and now the U.S. and Japan are allies.

The Battleship USS Arizona

The most notorious technological aspect of Pearl Harbor was the American use of radar. Radar was brand new, still in its infancy. Several radar sets had been sent to Hawaii a few months earlier. These were mobile sets, mounted in the back of trucks, as no permanent station had yet been built. The radar sets were used only a few hours each day, and were considered still in a training mode. The US realized they would be most vulnerable to a surprise attack at dawn, as reconnaissance planes could not fly at night. This would allow the aircraft carriers of any potential enemy (and this could only be Japan - only Japan and the US had carriers in the Pacific) to make a high-speed, all night run to get within flying range of Hawaii and launch its aircraft with the rising sun for a surprise attack - just exactly what the Japanese did. So, the radar sets were operated from from 4 AM to 7 AM.

On the morning of the attack the two operators of one of the radar sets were on the north coast of Oahu, the island where Pearl Harbor is. The truck that was to pick them up and take them to breakfast was late. They were supposed to secure the set at 7 AM, but one of the operators was a conscientious guy, trying hard, and he kept it turned on. They actually picked up the first wave of the Japanese attack force while it was still miles from the island, over the ocean. The operators knew that a flight of American B-17 bombers was due in that morning from California - the Army had paid the Honolulu radio station to stay on the air all night broadcasting, to give these bombers a radio signal to home in on. But there were only 12 B-17s due in, and this looked, to the inexperienced but conscientious radar operator, like a much bigger group of planes. And they weren't coming in on exactly the heading where one would expect to see planes coming from California. The operators talked it over and the one who was trying hard decided not to listen to his partner telling him to forget it, don't worry, its the B-17s from the states. He picked up the telephone and called in his report to the army's communications center.

Now, nobody anywhere in the world was used to dealing with radar sightings. And the officer on duty in the communications center was a very young and new one, who got stuck with the duty on a Sunday early morning. But still, he dismissed the report out of hand, leaping to the conclusion that what the radar operator was reporting had to be the B-17s from the mainland. He told the radar operator not to worry about it, hung up, and did not pass the word to anybody else. So the US frittered away this last chance to get its troops and ships alerted and guns manned, and fighter planes in the air.

The only good part of the story is that the conscientious radar operator was promoted to be an officer himself.

They felt that FDR wanted war and that he wanted Japanese-Americans in internment camps so that they would attack. They backed this up with the fact that the Americans moved their aircraft carriers out before the attack.

The US did not declare war on Cuba. Cuba was a colony of Spain, and the US declared war on Spain in 1898. The US press, newspapers owned by the Heart and Pulitzer chains, vied with each other in whipping up a public frenzy. For several years the press had been giving favorable treatment to Cuban rebels, trying to end Spanish colonial rule. The US was naturally sympathetic to these rebels, having gotten its own start in a colonial rebellion against Great Britain. Most of the rest of Central and South America had managed to win independence from Spain over the preceding eighty years, and Cuba was one of the last outposts of the rotten, decaying Spanish Empire, which Spain held with a death grip. Harsh treatment of captured Cuban rebels elicited great sympathy in America. In order to demonstrate its displeasure with Spanish colonial policies the US sent the battleship Maine to Havana Harbor, in Cuba. There, in February 1898, the battleship blew up one night. The newspapers screamed that the Spaniards had obviously done it, and clamored for war. Probably the battleship was sunk by the explosion of a bomb disguised as a lump of coal and slipped into the coal supply of the vessel by anarchists. But then, as now, the press knew best, without waiting to thoroughly investigate the facts. The continuous drumbeating for war got the public in the mood, but the Republican administration of McKinley was happy to swim with the tide of public opinion. Most of the fighting was in Cuba and the Philippine Islands, which were another Spanish colony at the time. Cuba was handy to the US, the site of the destruction of the USS Maine, and the majority of the Cuban people were for ridding themselves of Spanish colonialism. The US captured Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in 1898. Cuba was almost immediately set up as an independent nation, and the US still has Puerto Rico today. The US kept the Philippines until 1947, before the Philippines were also set up as a new nation, but not before US possession of the Philippines provoked the Japanese to attack the US in Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and drag the US into WWII.

The US detonates a uranium bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 140,000 people within months. Many more later die from radiation-related illnesses. The US explodes a plutonium bomb over Nagasaki. An estimated 74,000 people die by the end of 1945. Little can be done to ease the suffering of the victims who survive the blast. Those blast were in august 6 and 9, 1945.