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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Attack On Pearl Harbor

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On December 7, 1941, World War II had come to a change. The Japanese’s attack on Pearl Harbor had marked the official entrance of the United States into World War II. The United States was caught completely off guard. The first sign of the Japanese fleet dashing towards Pearl Harbor came about at 7:00 A.M. on December 7, 1941. Two United States Army privates on the island of Oahu were about to shut down a mobile radar station that they had manned since 4:00 that morning. A sudden disturbance on the screen made the two men put a pause to their actions. A large but distinguished patch of light appeared to the men to come from 50 planes looked to be heading straight towards the island. One of the privates called the information center across …show more content…

Their aircraft had to travel in complete radio silence in order to catch the Americans completely off guard. (Attack on Pearl Harbor). The Japanese had an ambitious war plan. Their plan consisted of to seize the oil-rich Netherlands East Indies, and to break the Allied oil embargo. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto designed the Pearl Harbor Attack. He was a brilliant, fifty-seven year old commander of the Combined Fleet who believed a decisive attack against the United States Fleet at Pearl Harbor could change the strategic balance in Japan’s favor and protect the flank of their Southern Operation. Once the Japanese Empire built a strong defensive perimeter around its vanquishment, the U.S. was faced with a peace settlement or a hopeless war of attrition. Yamamoto began to plan the Pearl Harbor attack in January 1941. By the end of August, his staff presented an outline which needed six aircraft carriers to sail from the Kurile Islands all the way through the northern part of the Pacific in late November …show more content…

The raid of the first wave launched a devastating attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It came with no warnings, and no declaration of war. It destroyed eight battleships, and 188 U.S. aircrafts. Only 100 Japanese perished in the first wave. More than 2,400 Americans were killed, and over 1,200 injured. Japan was seen as a serious threat to the U.S. economic and influence of the U.S. and European powers in Asia. In June 1937, Japan was in an all out war with China. This caused relations to plunge to new lows. The United States president, Franklin Roosevelt, inflicted economic sanctions, and Japan turned to Axis powers, signing the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in September

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Rahul Bagga Mr.Campbell US History, Period 0 16 December 2015 Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? One day that will always be remembered by America is the date of December 7, 1941, which changed American history forever. December 7, 1941 was the day the Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) which stationed many of American ships and airfields. Immediately after the bombings, United States President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, leading to a direct involvement into World War ll. Japan had many reason to do so but Japan attacked Pearl harbor for three reasons which were that they had a plan for a new world order, United States were expanding their number of naval ships rapidly, and an oil embargo was placed upon Japan

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The distance between Hawaii and Japan made the attack a bit difficult for Japan. The American intelligence officials weren’t prepared for the attack on Pearl Harbor, due to the fact of over confidence of the Japanese keeping the attacks in European colonies in the South Pacific: the Dutch East Indies. Because American military leaders were not expecting an attack so close to home, the naval facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended. Almost the entire Pacific Fleet was moored around Ford Island in the harbor, and numerous amounts of airplanes were packed onto nearby airfields. To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor was an inevitable target.

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Considering the conflicts with Asia, the attack on Pearl Harbor was not surprising. The United States provoked the Japanese into doing the attack because of an embargo. Petroleum and metal were two resources that Japan did not have enough of. The United States received knowledge that Japan wanted to attack but just didn’t get to the issue in time. Japan was very dependent on the Americans, the two met on two different occasions to try and settle the dispute, but neither of them were willing to compromise.

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In conclusion, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of their nationalist mentality, America’s embargo of oil to Japan and fearing that the United States will attack them first. The first reason why Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor was because the Japanese had nationalistic and narcissistic political mentality. The Japanese believed the Yamato race was a superior race to the other Asian race(Document A). They also believed they will become the “new order” once Europe and America crumble and become the “old orders”(Document A).

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Japan ambushed Pearl Harbor with the intentions of obtaining world domination, vengeance on the United States, and to prevent becoming a third-class

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Roosevelt had already strained the sinews of neutrality by supplying Britain with money and arms under the ‘lend –lease’ agreement. The Tripartite Pact meant that supplies to Japan would indirectly be helping Italy and Germany; further embargoes followed. Japan intensified the search for a permanent alternative. The most obvious target was South-east Asia, rich in minerals and oil. Japan’s military planners hoped to cripple the U.S fleet in order to buy time to capture and fortify the region they sought to control, then negotiate an armistice from a positions of strength.

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made an “embargo of aircrafts and aircraft parts against Japan.” In addition, the U.S. “freezes all Japanese assets and bank accounts” and placed another “embargo on oil shipments to Japan” right after they move their US Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, which they had planned to increase by three time within the next 3 years. Considering all the losses, and the poor treatment Japan faced by the U.S., Pearl Harbor seemed to be an important investment to America, as well as a perfect target for the Japanese to attack and show off their power through revenge. In Document E, Prime and War Minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo states that the U.S. never had a real reason to treat Japan in such a manner and “make[s] strong demands.” Part of the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was because it was strategically necessary for

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Navy. As shown by document C in 1940 Congress passed an act that promised to triple fleet size by 1944 and in document E, stated by Hideki Tojo the Prime minister and War minister of Japan, “When I think about the strengthening of American defences in the Southwest Pacific, the expansion of the American fleet, … I see no end of difficulties”. The evidence in document C shows that the U.S. was going to expand the Navy drastically to triple the size of the fleet, and as shown by document E Japan saw this fleet expansion as a big problem for their future plans, so an attack before the expansion of the expansion of the U.S. fleet can be seen as beneficial for

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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).

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Admiral Yamamoto’s drive destroy the American carrier capability was so fierce, it dominated the operational planning. The Naval General Staff should have transitioned to a defensive posture to consolidate their gains made thus far in the war. If Japan had reinforced and built up key positions on their new territory, it would require the US to fight much further east against a bunkered in enemy. Clausewitz argued that there were advantages to taking the defense, depending on who had the initiative. Japan’s war aim was to acquire regional control over the Pacific.

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Tensions had been high between Japan and America for a while, and restricting trade between the countries only fueled the fire. “July 1941, The United States freezes all Japanese assets and bank accounts. Aug 1941, the United States imposes an embargo of oil shipments to Japan.” (Doc C) Losing America as one of their consumers caused the Japanese economy to suffer. Japan believed that this separation of trade was the United States preparing to distance themselves from Japan to make it easier for America to attack Japan.

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The damage done on our vessels, battleships, airplanes, soldiers and sailors were bad. Nearly 20 American naval vessels were sunk, as well as 8 huge battleships, and over 300 airplanes. Material things can be replaced, but human lives cannot. More than 2,500 Americans died in this barrage and more than 1,000 were wounded.

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But, what exactly cause this long tension affair between Japan and America to be remembered as an American tragedy. As President Roosevelt stated, “a date in which will live infamy.”

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Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor is by far one of America’s most remembered events in history. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese dropped bombs on the American base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack is what persuaded President Franklin Roosevelt to join World War 2 and fight on two fronts. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor for many reasons. They attacked because they believed they would create a New World Order, they felt threatened by America and because of the oil embargo.

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the final action that brought the U.S. into WWII. When the U.S. joined the war, they sided with the Allies. The major Allies were the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. The Allies worked together to defeat the The attack changed many Americans opinion on whether or not the U.S. should become involved in the war. Many citizens now wanted to become involved in the war effort to help the Allies win the war.

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