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Japan's Involvement In The Attack On Pearl Harbor

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Many would use Japan's direct involvement in the attack on Pearl Harbor to justify the dropping of the atomic bomb, Americans wanted either justice or revenge on Japan. Before Pearl Harbor people didn’t have to fear of being killed if they weren’t involved in the war. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor it wasn’t just on US soil, but it was also unprovoked and unwarned and led to deaths of over 2,400 military personnel. The attack on Pearl Harbor directly caused America to join WW2 since the attack wasn’t warned there was no possible way of warning citizens on the island to evacuate or to seek shelter. Three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor the 2 bombs were dropped not only out of retaliation for what they had done the years’ prior.
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As the Japanese forces were considered the aggressors of the conflict by the Allies and Japanese veterans alike, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. Their aggression previous to the bombing was demonstrated through the attack on Pearl Harbour, which led to America’s involvement in World War II. The attack was not one born out of vengeance and was not strategically logical, whereas there was a reason behind the bombing of Hiroshima, that reason being that the Japanese military would not agree to the clauses presented in the Potsdam Declaration. This declaration was given to the military officials as an invitation to surrender before the first bombing, providing ample time for them to make a decision to hopefully end the

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This was because everyone in America was caught by complete surprise. Doing things by surprise is a common thing, but brings out the worse in everyone. When this happened, there were over 3,000 U.S. Casualties, over 300 U.S. Aircraft damaged/destroyed, and over 20 U.S. Ships damaged/destroyed. This was also a big reason for the A-bomb because it was unnecessary for Japan to kill so many American lives and property, all because they were upset that former president Franklin D. Roosevelt interfered with Japan’s internal affairs. If that was their main reason, they could have figured some thing out through words, not actions like this one, It was necessary for the dropping of the Atomic bomb because the attack on Pearl Harbor needed to be payed back.

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