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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on the US Military bases in the Hawaiian Territory particularly the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor brought the US into World War 2.
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When did Japan try to make peace with America before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese were not really trying to find a peaceful solution. They wanted the United States to allow Japan to continue the Japanese invasion of China and kill & brutalize the Chinese people. The United States was opposed to the Japanese aggression. See below for more info.
The United States & Japan were already in negotiations in Washington, D.C. (which began in August 1941), prior to the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941 on the United States at Hawaii (incl. Pearl Harbor), the Philippines, Guam & Wake Island. At the same time as the Japanese attack on the US, the Japanese attacked the British (at Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong & Borneo) and later the Dutch in Asia. he Japanese attacked before any declaration of war and were not engaged in negotiations with Britain or Netherlands.
These negotiations concerned the Japanese military's brutal aggression against China and the resulting US sanctions taken on trade with Japan. The Japanese diplomatic position never changed from that of demanding that the United States accept the Japanese conquest of China and that the United States should not interfere in Japanese military actions. The Japanese wanted economic sanctions, against them, lifted by the United States, but offered nothing for it. Negotiations were doomed to fail, except that a small group of misguided intellectuals (American clergymen & some Japanese business interests) provided false & misleading information (about Japanese diplomatic positions) that lead to false hope in a diplomatic compromise. By 1941, the Japanese government secretly undertook to use the negotiations as a delaying tactic, while preparing & planning for war against the United States, Britain & Commonwealth, and the Netherlands. Even the Japanese negotiators in Washington, DC were not told of the futility of their efforts.
Primary reason for the Japanese attack on the US: The Japanese Army's reckless obsession with their on-going brutal conquest of China. The United States had been taking diplomatic and economic steps against Japan for several years to convince (or force) the Japanese to end their war of conquest in Asia. The Japanese Army actually controlled the Japanese Government since the early 1930's. The Japanese Army refused to end its war of conquest & extreme brutality in China.
Beyond China, the Japanese Army had plans to take advantage of the weakness of the British, French, Dutch & Soviet Union in Asia because of Hitler's conquests in Europe. The Japanese wanted to be free of American interference, and create a vast Asian empire that would have eventually included China, eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, & New Guinea; and possibly India.
The Japanese military thought that the best way to keep the United States from interfering in their plans in Asia, was to deliver a surprise attack on various US bases throughout the Pacific to do as much damage to the US military capability in the Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, they intended to sink as many battleships, cruisers & aircraft carriers as possible. At Manila they intended to follow-up with an invasion and capture of the Philippines. At Wake Island they intended to seize the island. The Japanese also attacked the bases, ships & troops of the British Empire. All this was intended to persuade the United States & Britain to negotiate a settlement giving the Japanese most of the western Pacific territories, and most of Asia. They hoped that the US & Britain would not want to fight a prolonged & costly war in Asia to liberate what territory the Japanese could capture in the first six months of the war.
How big was the Athenian naval fleet?
Quite big. Since Athens was on the coast. A lot bigger than Spartan's army, since the Spartan army was land-based.
Was Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation effective?
Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation aimed to deter Soviet aggression by threatening nuclear response to any act of aggression. While it successfully conveyed the U.S. commitment to defending its allies and maintaining a strong deterrent posture, it also escalated tensions during the Cold War and limited U.S. options in conflicts requiring more nuanced responses. Critics argue that the policy could have provoked rather than prevented conflicts, as seen in situations like the Taiwan Strait Crisis. Overall, its effectiveness is debated, as it shaped military strategy but also contributed to a precarious global standoff.
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Telephone cables lay on the ocean floors; communication traffic.
Japan didn't attack the U.S. until more than 2 years AFTER WWII started. By7 then the war in Europe was already massive and all-consuming. When the U.S. came into the war, Britain and the U.S. agreed that America's war material production for export would prioritize the European theatre, because that's where the most critical fighting was going on.
Even at the height of the Pacific war, this policy was continued because Roosevelt realized that before Japan could be beaten Germany had to be defeated. Withholding the resources needed to concentrating all efforts in the Pacific would have allowed Germany a chance to cement its position in Europe and Asia, potentially adding years to the war.
What does the word fleet mean?
fleet : a group of ships fleet can also refer to a group of trucks, ie. The moving company owns a large fleet of trucks
A harbor (harbour) quay is a platform lying alongside or projecting into water for loading and unloading ships, which is located at a harbor.
What events led up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
1937 July: Japan invades North China from Manchuria.
1940 July: U.S. imposes trade sanctions, followed by an embargo, aimed at curbing Japan's military aggression in Asia.
1941 January: Adm. Yamamoto begins communicating with other Japanese officers about a possible attack on Pearl Harbor.
Jan. 27: Joseph C. Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, wires Washington that he has learned that Japan is planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. No one in Washington believes the information. Most senior American military experts believe the Japanese would attack Manila in the Philippine Islands if war broke out.
February: Adm. Husband E. Kimmel assumes command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii. Kimmel and Lt. Gen.Walter C. Short, commanding general of the Hawaiian Department, prepare for the defense of the islands. They ask their seniors in Washington for additional men and equipment to insure a proper defense of military instillations.
April: U.S. intelligence officers continue to monitor Japanese secret messages. In a program code-named Magic, U.S. intelligence uses a machine to decode Japan's diplomatic dispatches. Washington does not communicate all the available information to all commands, including Short and Kimmel in Hawaii.
May: Japanese Adm. Nomura informs his superiors that he has learned Americans were reading his message traffic. No one in Tokyo believes the code could have been broken. The code is not changed.
July: Throughout the summer, Adm. Yamamoto trains his forces and finalizes the planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Sept. 24: The "bomb plot" message from Japanese naval intelligence to Japan's consul general in Honolulu requesting a grid of exact locations of ships in Pearl Harbor is deciphered. The information is not shared with the Hawaii's Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short.
November: Tokyo sends an experienced diplomat to Washington as a special envoy to assist Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, who continues to seek a diplomatic solution.
Japan wants the U.S. to agree to its southern expansion in Asia diplomatically but if those efforts were unsuccessful, Japan was prepared to go to war.
Nov. 16: Submarines, the first units involved in the attack, depart Japan.
Nov. 26: The main body, aircraft carriers and escorts, begin the transit to Hawaii.
Nov. 27: Kimmel and Short receive a so-called "war warning" from Washington indicating a Japanese attack, possibly on an American target in the Pacific, is likely.
Night of Dec. 6, Morning of Dec. 7: U.S. intelligence decodes a message pointing to Sunday morning as a deadline for some kind of Japanese action. The message is delivered to the Washington high command before 9 a.m. Washington time, more than 4 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the message is not forwarded to the Pearl Harbor commanders and finally arrives only after the attack has begun.
At 0755, Hawaiian time, the first wave of Japanese aircraft begin the attack. Along with the ships in Pearl Harbor, the air stations at Hickam, Wheeler, Ford Island, Kaneohe and Ewa Field are attacked.
The Japanese attack continues for two hours and 20 minutes. When it's over, more than 2,400 Americans are dead and nearly 1,200 wounded. Eighteen ships have been sunk or damaged. More than 300 aircraft are damaged or destroyed.
Dec. 8: President Roosevelt addresses Congress and asks for a declaration of war against Japan, which he receives.
Dec. 16: Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short are relieved of their commands.
1942 January: The Roberts Commission appointed by President Roosevelt finds Kimmel and Short in dereliction of duty and solely responsible for the Pearl Harbor disaster.
1944
January: Capt. Laurence Safford, the Navy's former chief cryptographer, discovers that officials in Washington withheld secret information from Kimmel and Short.
October: A Naval Court of Inquiry finds Kimmel had not been derelict but had acted appropriately given what he knew. The Chief of Naval Operations overrules the court, saying if Kimmel had done aerial reconnaissance he might have discovered the Japanese fleet just 250 miles off Hawaii.
1995
December: A Defense Department investigation finds others share the responsibility with Kimmel and Short for the Pearl Harbor disaster. It does not say who those "others" are.
2000
An amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act of 2001 finds Kimmel and Short acted competently and professionally and urges the president to restore the officers to their highest WWII rank.
What were Major resources that were made in the country during world war 2?
The US produced: Synthetic Rubber (for tires); Copper & Lead (for bullets); Steel (for ships, tanks, rifles, machineguns, pistols, artillery, bombs, shells, hand grenades, helmets); Oil (for powering ships, planes, tanks, etc.); Aluminum (for building airplanes), Wood/Lumber (for wooden pallets for transporting cargo over-seas, structures, rifle stocks, etc.); Food; Medical Supplies; etc.
Who is responsible of September 11th?
Ultimately, we are responsible for 9/11 and the lives that were claimed at home and abroad. The longer we wait to take responsibility for the attacks, the harder it will be to restore peace to the planet. If you really want the individuals who are the dirt bags, then you need to look at the V.P. Dick Cheney, and PNAC, Project for a New American Century. Start there. Then make a B line for corporate interest in Washington D.C. That should pretty much take care of it.
To cripple the American naval fleet what did the Japanese do?
They attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941
The USS Indianapolis transported the Atomic bomb to Tinian and was sunk by a Japanese sub on her return trip.
Due to the turn of events and the war ending, the survivors were not rescued for many days. Many were attacked by sharks. The Captain was court martialed because he wasn't zig-zagging in enemy water. A few years after being found guilty, he committed suicide . Then many years later the Navy turned the verdict.
What is Hawaii's state animal?
Hawaii State Mammal: Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi)
Hawaii State Marine Mammal: Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
