was betraying them‚ allowing them to die by the hands of the Japanese. The catastrophic bombing of Pearl Harbor saw thirteen ships damaged and two destroyed‚ as well as 159 planes damaged and 169 destroyed. Also‚ the surprise massacre by the Empire of Japan forced over 2‚000 men to
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Battle of Midway: The Battle of Midway was fought on Midway Island and the area surrounding the Island‚ from the 4th to the 7th June 1942. The Battle of Midway was fought by the Japanese as their commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamotoan wanted to draw the US Pacific Fleet into a battle where he could overwhelm and destroy it‚ unfortunately for him the Americans managed to break the Japanese code so they knew exactly where the Japanese were and where they were going to attack next. During the battle
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attacked the naval base of Pearl Harbor with a horrendous attack. With this‚ the 32nd president of the United States‚ president Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ gave his famous speech. Shortly after this‚ the British and United States declared war on Japan. Not so long after‚ Germany declares war on the United States. The attack of Pearl Harbor is to be said as the starting mark of America into the war of World War II. Now technically‚ the war started earlier in about 1921-1922‚ when Adolf Hitler
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Harbour in 1941‚ due to the tensions it caused towards the U.S. However‚ this was not only the contributing factor‚ others including American actions which restricted and aggravated Japan and Japanese foreign relations and policies all contributed to the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbour. At the turn of the 20th Century Japan was beginning to emerge as a new world power‚ following the industrialisation that resulted from the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1853. The Japanese were intrigued by the modern
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the war against the Axis powers‚ majorly Germany‚ Italy and Japan. During the 1930s‚ Japan began to invade China with the intensions of taking it over. In 1940‚ after occupying the coastal lines of China‚ the Japanese began to invade and take over northern French Indochina. When the United States became aware of Japans actions‚ they put an embargo on Japan forbidding exports of steel‚ scrap iron‚ and aviation fuel. As the Japanese
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to the Congress of the United States Yesterday‚ Dec. 7‚ 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and‚ at the solicitation of Japan‚ was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed‚ one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu‚ the
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Attack on Pearl Harbor "December 17‚ 1941‚ a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan." - Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt At 7:53 AM‚ the aerial onslaught began with the second wave perpetuated at 8:55. A radiogram was sent from the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: "Airraid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill." Within two hours‚ the carnage had concluded leaving 2‚403 people dead
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that briefly summarized what happened the day before in Pearl Harbor‚ near to Honolulu Hawaii. The attack on Pearl Harbor struck the United States of America by surprise‚ no declaration of war was made by one nation against the other one‚ but still Japan sent Bombers from distant aircraft carriers in order to attack the American Naval base that served as the western military outpost for the US. To understand the reasons behind this attack one has to go back to the time after World War 1 to the Versailles’s
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forces that launched the attack. The attack was carried out in December 1941. The Japanese military forces used the attack as a precautionary action to deter the American Pacific Fleet from prying the planned military actions of Japanese Empire. The Japanese Empire had planned military actions against abroad territories of Netherlands‚ America and the United Kingdom. Consequently‚ Americans were forced into war‚ which was not in accordance with their wishes to defend their country. The naval base
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they invaded Manchuria and used all the resources in that area to supply their war machine. Japan was aggressive and wanted to create an empire. They became a threat to the economic interests and influence of the U.S. and Europe in Asia. By 1937‚ Japan was in an all-out war with China and relations between the two counties were at an all time low. President Franklin Roosevelt put economic sanctions on Japan. That meant companies‚ American and Japanese‚ could not trade with one another. That made
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