Introduction
Isoroku Yamato, a Japanese Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II once said “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with a terrible resolve.” This iconic quote, said after the “The attack on Pearl Harbor”, A surprise military attack conducted on the morning of December 7, 1941 by the general himself on the American naval base, took the lives of 2,403 American soldiers and wounded 1,178. Done in an attempt to stop American (whom was at a Standing of neutrality during the attack) from interfering with the Japanese Empire’s conquest in Southeast Asia, they destroyed many of America’s military vehicles and sank many naval battleships, causing a Shift in America’s Standing
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Allied with the British, France and The Soviet Union, Russia. Together the Allied powers ended the Axis powers reign after 6 years of intense battle in both theatres. This eventually led to the surrender of Germany on 7th may 1945, after Anglo-Americans from the West and the Soviets from the East had smashed German’s economy, captured much of its industrial base, taken its airfields and shattered its Army with no supplies. With their capital occupied by ally troops, Germany was left with only the option to surrender. Ending the war within the European Theatre. The success in Europe prompted the allied forces to call for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces within the pacific in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945, threatening "prompt and utter destruction” with the use of nuclear weapons if Japan resisted. In late July, Japan’s government rejected to surrender and to accept the Potsdam Declaration. This forced the US to engage in the use of nuclear weapons, dropping two Atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the Second World War in the pacific. In my essay I aim to show how the attack on Pearl Harbor changed America’s standing of neutrality to war, effectively ending the conflict in