...The attack on Pearl Harbor was a terrorist attack by Japan. The attack happened on December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor was bombed by hundreds of Japanese fighter planes. The attack lasted over 2 hours more than 2,000 soldiers and sailors died from the bombings and over 1,000 were wounded. Japan had many Economic problems and Economic Sanctions. These things could have been motives for the attack. Japan and the U.S were in a conflict. Japan’s belligerent with the U.S led them to attack Pearl Harbor. Japan wanted to take over parts of China to help with Trade Embargoes. The U.S didn’t want them to do that and put Economic Sanctions on Japan. It didn’t affect Japan's eagerness to fight China. Japan called its allies Germany and Italy to help...
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...The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941 was not right. Especially considering the facts on why Japan did it in the first place. One reason was because they were trying to scare off America from going into WWII. However, the attack only put the U.S. straight into the war. Secondly, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because Japan was short on oil and didn't have enough for them to be ready for the war. They sought their solution for more oil in the Hawaiian Islands. Overall, the attack on Pearl Harbor was not right because the reasons they had were not very solid and the damage they had done was outrageous. On the other hand, America did not do all it could do to prevent the attack and damage at Pearl Harbor because they were...
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...Pearl Harbor This essay centers on the devastating event of Pearl Harbor and its events possible implications. Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. The Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. The causes behind the attack resulted from a long chain of events which travels back to the 1930s, when Japan took on a military development in China. For various reasons, America has not like japans action, not tried deterring them. According to Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential office papers (1933-1945), limited support was provided to the Chinese government. In the year 1940, Roosevelt Shaw offed the strong power of America as a country and shifted one of its fleet near Pearl Harbor. Being a diplomat, he addressed the situations of Japan to be tense. Upon Japan’s seizure of the southern French Indo-China in July 1941; Roosevelt was prompted to inflict economic sanctions on Japan, critically depriving Japan of oil imports. The Japanese military dependence upon America’s oil resulted as Japan had to decide from the two options; resolving the problem through diplomacy or by extracting oil sources from Southeast Asia. These both actions guaranteed to meet American opposition. The presidential office papers (1933-1945) also indicated that Japan was underhand preparing for a coordinated and cunning spell of attacks on the Pacific Rim while on the surface it is planning to have...
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...Tora! Tora! Tora! Is a mostly accurate account of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. This film has both the Japanese and American accounts of the events preceding and up to the attack. They were filmed separately and then edited together to make one story. Tora! Tora! Tora! was the code word used by the Japanese to show that a complete surprise attack had been achieved. In the first part of the film the Japanese are planning their attack on Pearl Harbor. It starts with a summation of the events that led them to the point to start planning their attack. The film and book state that two of these events were the signing of the Tripartite Pact, which was a loose defense treaty with Germany and Italy, and the freezing of Japan’s assets in the United States. The film goes on to describe how Japan plans to attack Pearl Harbor. The Japanese segments in the first half of the film are very interesting as Japan’s side of the story isn’t told very often in American film. It gives Americans a historical view that many have not seen or heard about....
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...The Boy in The Striped Pajamas Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the son of a Nazi officer. When his father receives a promotion, the young boy must move with his family away from his friends and his comfortable home in Berlin. He quickly becomes bored in his new surroundings in the countryside where he has no one to play with. From his bedroom window he can see a neighboring “farm” where all of the occupants wear “pajamas.” Hoping to play with the kids there, he can’t wait to go pay them a visit. Though his mother repeatedly warns him not to venture far from the house, his curiosity gets the best of him and he sneaks off to go exploring. It is on one of these adventures through the woods that he stumbles upon the barbed wire fence that encircles the neighboring concentration camp. Behind it he finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy who is the same age as him. They quickly develop a friendship, interacting as much as they can while separated by the fence. Though they are both somewhat oblivious to the horrors taking place around them, they will both ultimately be affected by the events of the war. This film is very well done, yet difficult to watch. While there is no graphic violence depicted on the screen, the film is none the less heartbreaking. Because the story is told through the eyes of an 8-year-old boy, much of what we see seems mostly benign. Bruno simply doesn’t understand the things that he sees. Unfortunately for us, as adults, we do. All of the actors...
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....Pearl Harbor 1 Pearl Harbor Rebecca Pressley HIST102 I020 Sum 14 Kimberley Rush August 21, 2014 Pearl Harbor 2 Pearl Harbor happened on 7 December 1941 with the location being Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory and the United States. Pearl Harbor occurred between the United States of American and the Empire of Japan. The commander and leader for the United States was Husband Kimmel and Walter Short, and the commander and leader for Japan was Chuichi Nagumo and Isoroku Yamamoto. In September 1940, the Unites States stopped the exporting of steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel to Japan because of Japan's takeover of the Northern French Indochina. In April of 1941 Japan had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union to prevent being attacked by them if they were to go to war with Britain or the United States while trying to take a bigger piece of South Asia. June 1941 through July 1941 Japan stayed in Southern Indochina. Afterward Japan's assets were frozen by the United States, Netherlands, and Britain which prevented Japan from being able to buy oil and in time would crumple their forces and eventually make them useless. Around the end of 1941 Japan tried to take the oil resources from Southeast Asia, the United States tried to stop the expansion...
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...Hawaii, a world-famous tourist attraction and home to Pearl Harbor, the event that leads the United States of America into the deadliest war in human history, World War 2. On December 7th 1941, the Empire of Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that causes severe damages to the American Fleet of the Pacific, as well as, loss of many American lives. Prior to the attack, the Empire of Japan tricks America into remaining at peace through diplomacy. The diplomacy trick leads America to being unaware of the attack of the Empire of Japan on Pearl Harbor. In the wake of the attack on American soil and the devastating loss of so many American lives, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers the “Pearl Harbor Address to The Nation,”...
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...Summary Unit Two (1937 – 1942) was centered around three key themes. With them being Imperialism, oppression/terrorism, and "racial superiority”. The unit over the past several lectures was focused on looking at the factors that led to the Second Sino – Japanese War, the strategic planning that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the attack itself and the actions of Japan regarding European territories in the Asian Pacific theater. The Second Sino – Japanese (1937 – 38) began because of Japanese provocation with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which was a part of Japan's imperialist goal of achieving a so-called "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which was an empire under their control that "stretched from China to the mid-Pacific, and from Alaska to Australia". On July 7, 1937, members of a radical faction of the Japanese army detonated a bomb near a railroad in Manchuria and then used the "attack" as justification as for a full- scale invasion and occupation of China....
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...general of the United States Army. After Pearl Harbor being bombed, the United States declared war against Japan the next day and formed an alliance with Britain. Before Congress and the Supreme Court approved the war against Japan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech known as the Infamy Speech. Due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States and its army learned valuable lessons that contribute to its development. Everything happens for a reason, even if the reason may be irrational such as the reasoning for the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. One of the reasons for Japan’s action claimed by Brett is “President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor… [which] was a threat to Japan, who wanted to expand in the Pacific” (3 Reason Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor). With President Roosevelt’s action and Japan’s goal, it was unavoidable for the U.S. and Japan not to be at war, which lead to Japan deciding to attack first to...
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...of the Soviet Union. In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the stage was officially set for the start of World War II. The United States was determined to avoid direct conflict, and as a result passed the Neutrality Act. The Neutrality Act prevented the US from aiding anyone in the war. Despite the United States’ effort to stay neutral the country was eventually provoked into war by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. In July of 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States in response to Japan occupying French Indo-China. Roosevelt’s embargo on oil, needed for weapons and everyday life, threatened to ground Japan’s entire army. According to History.com, “President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. The result: Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil” (History.com). Roosevelt also denied Japanese ships the right to use the Panama Canal. Without access to the Panama Canal the Japanese were forced to add approximately 7,900 miles onto the trade routes. Japan’s main goal was conquest, but the United States disapproved and forced Japan to...
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...Pearl Harbor, the Beginning of the End of the Rising Sun As I flew in from the north of Oahu, the sunburst broke through the clouds off the horizon of the ocean in front of us. I couldn’t help to think to myself what a beautiful site for us to see. The gods must be looking upon us. Letting us know of a successful and glorious mission. It took all of about 2 hours to fly our 360 planes that consisted of dive and high level bombers, fighters and torpedo planes the 230 miles to the harbor of pearl. It was 8:05 when my bomb pierced its target. The bomb had hit the forward powder magazine of the USS Arizona. The mighty explosion split the great ship in half, taking only nine minutes for her to sink (A Summary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, 2012). Now that we are out of the box looking in, this is what a Japanese pilot might have felt as he flew his plane on that haunting yet unforgettable mission to that bay at Pearl; for he was on his way of creating history from the destruction of an entire fleet in anchor. This Japanese warrior and his culture of war would not know the consequences of his emperor’s actions; for it would only unite an entire country in a fit of rage from this horrific and unprovoked act initiated by the rising sun nation of Japan. This battle would not only be the beginning of WWII for the United States, but it would be the beginning of the end of a military force in Japan. It was this mission and Japan’s cultural importance of war that...
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...Outline Thesis: The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to the world, yet was no surprise to FDR’s administration, for he needed an excuse to push his country into war. I. Introduction A: What happened at Pearl Harbor? B: Who / When / Where II. Japan’s reason A: Trade agreements U.S.A and Japan. B: Japan and American relations. III. FDR’s conflict A: Representative of American people. * Need to stay out of war. B: Global leader * Pressure to join the war. IV. U.S.A enter the World War2 V. Conclusion Pearl Harbor is located in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. On Saturday, December 6, sailors, soldiers, and pilots at Pearl Harbor enjoyed their weekend liberty. No one knew what would happen the next day. Early Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese navy. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to the world. At 7:00 a.m. soldiers found a large number of the planes coming from the north on the radar screen, but they thought that the fleets were U.S. planes flying back from the mainland. Moreover, the planes were so low above the roof tops and somebody saw the orange-red emblem of the Rising-Sun. That meant the Japan army. Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson, author of Pearl Harbor Child, reports that: “ We heard the sound of low flying planes, then almost immediately, a loud explosion, followed by more planes passing directly over our house”(15). Moreover, many U.S military were sleeping, eating breakfast or preparing...
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...Soldiers that were having the time of their lives in Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941, would have never thought that at 7:55 a.m. the next day would be one of the most tragic days of their lives. This tragedy would lead to the destruction of most of their aircrafts and ships. Additionally, the death of over 1500 people. The United States did not recover for months after the calamity. For what reasons would Japan strike Pearl Harbor? Japan attacked Pearl Harbor for three reasons: new world order, the United states fleet expansion, and the United States oil embargo. However, the important reason that caused this attack was the U.S. Immigration Restriction. Japan was tired of the ¨old order¨ that ruled most of the world. The old order included...
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...Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor can be argued as the most important event of World War II because of the after effects that changed the whole war. The Pearl Harbor attack caused America to become a part of WWII and inevitably win the war. In only hours after the attack America found itself in full force against not only Japan but Germany too. Germany, Japan, and Italy were in the pact together fighting alongside and trying to overtake Europe.Questioned honor, lack of resources, and military fear are the most relevant reasons Pearl Harbor was attacked. Honour is a small word with a very large meaning especially the Japanese. The Japanese valued honor above anything else except their country and emperor. “ subject is to be loyal to the emperor in disregard me that to self” Doc. A.The...
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...The Pearl Harbor Attack Japan is smaller than California, with half of the population, why did japan attack Pearl Harbor? Pearl Harbor is an American naval base that is located in Hawaii. Japan had felt that the United States wanted to keep the world divided into two halves, America and Europe against the Japanese and East Asia. Due to several major events that happened between the United States and Japan, on December 7th, 1941 Japan attacked an American naval base. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of the League of Nations, the stop of their oil supply, and Japan wanted to expand. First, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was an organization that was created by American president Woodrow Wilson to help solve the world’s future problems. “Many nations joined, including Japan. Surprisingly, the United States did not join” (BE). Due to the United States lack of wanting to become involved in the world problems, the United States Senate did not have the United Sates become a part of the League of Nations. “Some Japanese leaders were quite shocked and disappointed” (BE). Since America had created the League of Nations it was expected for them to have joined, but because they did not, the organization was not very effective. As a result, Japan had a reason to dislike America resulting in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Second, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the United States stopped giving Japan oil. The United States gave Japan...
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