On 1941, December 7th, Pearl Harbor was bombed to a fine crisp. America had been slowly chipping away at Japanese patience, they had halted the trading, disabled the Japanese from coming into our country, stopped Japanese bank accounts (going in or out) and many other reasons which struck anger amongst our Japanese allies. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor for 3 main reasons. One, the Japanese had a plan for a new world order. Secondly. the United States imposed an embargo on the oil exported to Japan. Lastly, the United States Congress passed the Naval Expansion Act which promised to triple the fleet size by 1944.
According to “Japanese Ministry of Education, excerpts from The Way of the Subjects, August 1, 1941,” the Japanese thought that the "Old Oder" was crumbling, which was the friendship between America and Europe. The Japanese took this as an opportunity to take over the world, with the two strongest nations down, taking the Earth over was fair game. The Japanese took this as an easy way to weaken one and began the process of world
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Martin's Press Boston 1999,” states the United States Congress passed the Naval Expansion Act which promised to triple the fleet size by 1944. America was known for our armies, but not our navy, so we wanted to change that. We decided to pass an act which was we would triple (expand by 3) our navy sizes. The Japanese heard of our plans and were cautious of an attack. Well this was a case of having too much weight on one scale. Japan had been paranoid that America was going to attack, so, the pressure broke. They flew into Pearl Harbor (a huge ship camp) and bombed us. They knew our ship sizes were increasing, so they made a move to stop all further production. Japan had stopped Americans from completing our task of tripling the fleet size. Japan also wanted to take over a lot of islands and they feared America could stop