Infamy Attack On Pearl Harbor

The Attack on Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the day of Japan’s devious sneak attack “a date which will live in infamy”(Hazen). During the 1930s, Japan expanded its territories and led the United States to embargo exports to Japan. Betraying all negotiations with the U.S., Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Hundreds of Japanese planes crippled 75 percent of the U.S. Navy and killed thousands of Americans, including civilians. The U.S. declared war against Japan on the next day of the attack, and the American economy changed immediately. Increased tensions between the United States and Japan, led to Japan conceiving an operation of infamy attack on Pearl Harbor

In fact, it relied 55.4 percent of its imports at the time came from the U.S. Japanese expansion started in 1931, the Japanese invaded Manchuria in northern China and established a puppet state called Manchukuo. Manchuria contained large deposits of iron and coal, which Japan desperately needed to support its military production. In 1937, the Japanese invaded the rest of China, taking an advantage of unstable political conditions and killed 300,000 Chinese civilians during the notorious Nanking Massacre. Western powers were distressed by Japanese expansion, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union protested against Japan (“Attack on Pearl Harbor - 1941”). The Japanese military leaders, however, responded by withdrawing the League of Nations and refusing to honor international army treaties. In 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, and became part of Axis

had been struggled by the Great Depression, which brought the U.S. serious economic problems and widespread unemployment. President Roosevelt was praised for bringing the U.S. out of the depression but it is also true that the attack on Pearl Harbor ended it. After the surprise attack, the U.S. entered into the World War II. Its entry into the war started a full industrial mobilization effort involving the production of massive amounts of war goods. Unemployment rates stopped rising, and nearly 85 percent of young men and unemployed men went to the war (The Day The Great Depression Ended). The U.S. government also encouraged civilians to "Work or Fight" as a campaign of intensive government propaganda (“Texas