Dbq Essay On The Battle Of Pearl Harbor

Sandile Mabuza
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History independent work
The battle of Pearl Harbour

7 December 1941, the Battle of Pearl Harbour took place. The Japanese government implemented a premeditated attack on the U.S, in an attempt to cripple U.S. (Source C). After the attack on Pearl Harbour the United States entered the war, four days later Germany and Italy which where allies with Japan at the time declared war on the United States. (Source F). So meaning the U.S was just defending itself then attacked Japan out of self-defence.

The attack on Pearl Harbour was planned out by the Japanese government to cripple United States and its Pacific fleet to give them the space to invade South-east Asia according to (Source B). Japan wanted to invade china to take over their import market. (Source F). Japan need something to distract America from the pacific, to give them time to attack their crucial targets, Pearl Harbour was the perfect plan, wiping out the pacific fleet gave the Japanese the allowance it needed.(Source B).
Planning
Japan set out for sail on November 26 for their pre-emptive strike, only on the 1st of December and the 7th the fleet commander got his final orders whilst they were in Hawaii. (Source L)The Japanese even had to learn code signals like “TO, TO, TO…” telling them it was time to attack. (Source L). Japanese had practiced this attack

(Source F) The U.S uses the attack to rebuild the destroyed fleet and enters the war. The long term effect about this attack is that the U.S retaliates in a massive way and bombs the two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bombs “fatman” and “little boy”. Which kills more people killed on the attack on Pearl harbour in just the first atomic bomb, that bomb did not just kill people instantly, to the people who survived the blast did not survive the radiation, the pregnant women’s babies were affected by this