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Reasons Behind America's Attack On Pearl Harbor

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”-Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although people have heard that the attack on Pearl Harbor is just a horrifying surprise to America, no one exactly knows exactly what happened that day. Just to let the reader(s) of this article know, this is based on true events and a violent event in America's history. Throughout the presentation, imagine if someone was a victim of the attack on Pearl Harbor. how it all started, describing who attacked the U.S., and what the response to America was from the invasion. It was Sunday December 6, 1941, the Japanese began to lead a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and there was a reason of why this happened. In September of 1940, America prohibited further …show more content…

Then two days later on July 1941, Great Britain and the Netherlands stopped oil trade to Japan for a treaty to Russia who was enemies to the British and the Netherlands during the war. The reason for this was so that the Japaneses Navy And Air Force would cripple and later become useless. As the soviets saw that they were almost in defeat towards the end of 1941, this was the perfect chance for Japan to take a quick strike on one of the enemies allies. That's how the bombing of Pearl Harbor all started (as stated in the first sourc pe in the bibilography. Finley 2 On Monday, December 7, 1941 at exactly 7:55 A.M. (As stated in the fourth source), the fleet of Japanese ships sailed and the planes flew from Japan to Hawaii. The attack was lead and commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. Chuichi Nagumo sent in two waves of bombing planes with a total of 353 planes attacking the naval bases. Over 2,000 American Naval soldiers were killed and 11 U.S. Navy ships have sunk to the bottom of the pacific ocean including 4 strong and powerful battleships. …show more content…

That wasn't all, the U.S. decided to send in a revenge strike, this is how the Manhattan project came into play. The Manhattan project was an experiment on creating the most strongest bomb in the time, a nuclear bomb. The first nuclear bomb was named by president Roosevelt called “Little Boy”. It was the first bomb to be detonated over a Japanese city. The second bomb in development was named “Fat Man”, the reason for this is because of its size and power. This was the last bomb detonated over Japan. The two bombing runs over Japan also helped end World War II because America basically knocked out Germany and the Russians powers. Towards the ending of World War II, Russia decided to forfeit now leaving Germany all alone in the war. Finley 3 In conclusion, Pearl Harbor was a devastating attack to America but it was the last mistake Japan would ever make. First, japan had the advantage of attacking us without

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