Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

The Attack On Pearl Harbor was the day Japan first attacked the United States, causing our entry into World War 2 on December, 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor

“Pearl Harbor caused our nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War 2, changing the course of our nation’s history and the world’s future”- Joe Baca.

Why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor is complicated, Japan believed since they were an axis power that they would inevitably go to war with the United States. Later, on December, 7, 1941 around 8 A.M. Japan attacked our Pacific naval base stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii; this naval base was known to many as Pearl Harbor. Japan hoped to cripple our Pacific fleet and the moral of the U.S., bringing us down to submit and create a peace treaty

Following that move the U.S. placed embargos on exports of aviation, gasoline and premium grade metals. Japan later signed a treaty with Germany and Italy called Tripartite Act, this act would force the U.S. into a war with all of the Axis powers if we attacked a single one, Japan hoped this would be enough for the United States not to attack Japan for any reason in fear of a war with Germany, Italy, and Japan. In early 1941 the Japanese ambassador Mr. Nomura discussed peace in the Pacific, however the Japanese continued to send troops into southern indochina. Both the United States and Japan negotiated an end to the embargo to avoid war, Germany meanwhile was pressuring Japan to begin a war with the U.S. in the Pacific. On November 26, 1941 the First Carrier Striking Force departed Japan on its way to the planned attack launch point 230 miles north of Oahu. The plan required them to travel undetected for 13 days on a northern route to Oahu. The Fleet arrived on December 7th just before 6:00 AM. Then the attack began. Only 64 people were killed with the Japanese having little to no casualties, The U.S. were not so lucky, 2,390 military deaths with 1,177 on the USS Arizona and 68 civilians, counting a total of 3,635 American deaths. Every battleship was either damaged or destroyed, the only three that were unable to return to battle were the (USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, and the USS Utah). Even though this attack was a critically damaging one to our naval fleet it did not prove too much of a crippling blow to our air support since none of our aircraft carriers were damaged. This means that Yamamoto’s work at Pearl harbor wasn’t finished and he had to draw the fleet into battle. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, many government buildings such as ‘Iolani Palace became military offices. The civil courts were replaced with military