December 7th, 1941 was Pearl Harbor. It was 7:55 am when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The atomic bomb was just. All the things that Japan did to us, including Pearl Harbor, were the "fuse" that lit the fire or woke the giant. This was good for the US because it gave us something to look forward to and fall back on. What was meant by that is, showing people in the future that we did something to keep them off our backs or trying to get in charge of the Pacific again in time. Pearl Harbor was a big part of this because that was the main base for our planes. We also left it unattended, so they probably went after it because no one or a few people were watching the guard. Another reason is that if Japan had defeated or taken Pearl Harbor, they would have been in charge of the Pacific, and we didn’t want that. An example of what happened was the Battle of …show more content…
Pearl Harbor is way different, and you would've known that because a bombing does more than attack a military base. There were 2,403 casualties at Pearl Harbor, and 135,000 people died in Hiroshima and 64,000 in Okinawa as a result of the two bombings. I'm not sure if the amount in Pearl Harbor is just American or if others have been added to it. There was a survivor named Yoshitaka Kawamoto, and they were students in class when the bombing went off. They were 0.8 kilometers from the hypocenter, which isn’t far from the blast center. They encountered a lot that day because they had to help their classmates. A quote from Document E says," One of my classmates, I think his name is Fujimoto, muttered something and pointed outside the window, saying, "A B-29 is coming." He pointed outside with his finger. So I began to get up from my chair and asked him, "Where is it?" Looking in the direction that he was pointing, I got up on my feet, but I was not yet in an upright position when it happened. All I can remember was a pale lightning flash for two or three