Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on the US Military bases in the Hawaiian Territory particularly the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor brought the US into World War 2.
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JademillercoolReasons for the bombing of Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese for several reasons. 1. When the Japanese...
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Hitler and Mussolini were the leaders of Germany and Italy respectively. Fighting against them was Franklin D. Roosevelt of...
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The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. The surprise attack on Pearl...
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December 8, 1941 was the date of the US declaration of war, but in fact the US was at war on December 7, 1941 at about 7:55 AM...
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I personally don't believe that Japan attacked the United States first. There is no way, we provoked them. I agree about the...
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The following is a list of how many people were killed on Dec. 7, 1941 as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. US...
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first answer:This has been said to be for many reasons. The reason that is the most common, and to be thought in historical...
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The US stopped exporting steel, aviation fuel, and scrap iron to Japan. Japan got mad and allied with Germany and Italy and...
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The attack along Battleship Row began at 7:55 am, & by 10 am the last bombs had fallen at the various air bases on the island...
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Japan wanted to expand from Manchuria to Indochina and all the East Indies to control all East Asia. The U.S. set a trade embargo...
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The plan was to knock out the US Pacific Fleet as a significant fighting force, so their would be no opposition to Japan's...
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Japan was trying to become the dominant, imperial power in East Asia and the Pacific. They had invaded China in 1933 and were...
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After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States got involved in WWII. If you want to know why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor...
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Yes, the USS Ward sunk a Japanese midget sub trying to enter port at 6:45am. Naval command disregarded the warning, and the...
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Prior to World War II American foreign policy was isolationist. We felt that other nations problems, particularly their wars,...
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There's none, absolutely none nor will there ever be because the theory doesn't make any sense. Why would FDR risk losing the...
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Pearl Harbor played a major historical role in World War II by galvanizing US support against the Axis. Previously, the US had...
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No. WWII had already commenced in Europe and Asia by this time. The attack, however, did bring United States involvement in the...
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In World War Two Pearl Harbor was attacked by imperialist japan
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AnswerPresident Roosevelt, nor any other American, ever did a thing to provoke an attack by the Empire of Japan upon the U.S....
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Yes, but you have to have command sponsorship and be screened for overseas screening
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Procedure in which skin cells from a blister are stained and examined under the microscope. Visualization of large skin cells...
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a war crime but rather an act of conventional warfare. See dictionary definition of...
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Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, were affected by Pearl Harbor, as many men left their families to join the army. About...
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AnswerThe Japanese hoped to secure their Eastern flank as they launched offensives into the South Pacific. They primarily wanted...
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The Japenese bombed Pearl Harbour because they felt like it.
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Chief among the detractors of the attack on the U.S. was the man in overall charge of the operation, Admiral Yamamoto. He knew...
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14 ships were sunk, but there are also 4 that were considered severely damaged and were considered as "Sunk" although they could...
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This is a difficult question to answer because it is entirely from the Japanese viewpoint, and they have not published their...
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Well, Japan needed resources and we wouldn't really trade oil with them, Japanese didn't want US to join the war so they felt if...
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Two good sources would be: Day of Infamy by Walter Lord and At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prange
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1 It caused the most powerful industrial nation in the world to enter the war. For example we built more aircraft in one year...
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AnswerAt Pearl Harbor it was that they had achieved total surprise and benefited by some mistakes made by the U.S. military.In...
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technically you could argue that it could be either one. it could be "effect" because japan was already involved in ww2 before...
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It has been debated for a long time exactly why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. Obviously the Japanese knew they...
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Peal Harbor was not a battle but an attack. The Japanese claim they tried to send the message but the translators could not...
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Answerthe u.s. was on its knees after that attack and the Japanese said that they have awaken a sleeping giant.the us helped...
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At the memorial place in Oahu at Pearl Harbor there's like this little boat thing and it has a name of all the soldiers or...
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They froze Japan's assets and stopped them from getting steel, aviation fuel and oil. The British Navy was in the Indian...
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According to The USS Arizona by Jasper/Delgado/Adams We lost 90,000 Soldiers in the Pacific arena. To improve this answer which...
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WWII had been going on in the Pacific for 4 years and in Europe for 2 years before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This marked...
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Japan wanted to take over Asia and claim the world Answer Japan was angry because after World War one they received little...
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Pearl Harbor is located on the south coast of Oahu It's in Honolulu Hawaii. Pearl Harbour is in Hawaii.
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The value of the 3 original extras from the Honolulu Star published December 7, 1941 are $3800.00usd each as of 2004.
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There were a very large number of drawbacks and perils in the Pearl Harbor attack for Japan. So many, in fact, that the only...
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Hawaii's island Oahu had a very large port where many large naval ships were harbored. So if Japan could manage a surprise attack...
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Answerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor AnswerJapan felt they were the ultimate race and any other...
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It entered the United States into the war. and destroyed half the naval nad air force The impact that the Pearl Harbor attack...
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2,448,095 soldiers died in total in the Korean war.
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nobody lived in pearl harbor
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I'm not certain of a monetary amount that Pearl Harbor cost, but there were alot of military vehicles destroyed. 5 of 8...
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Pearl Harbor, by giving Roosevelt the green light to bring the US directly into World War II, concentrated power in the hands of...
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Like any mechanized nation at the time, Japan had a myriad of systems organized into groups, Naval, aviation, land. The answer...
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AnswerThe Japanese wanted to conrol the entire pacific area and they knew that their biggist obstacle in achieving this was the...
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No. Answer Simply stating YES or NO to the question; "Was Pearl Harbor a conspiracy made by Franklin D. Roosevelt?" is an...
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Without question, it is the complacency and incompetence of American Commanders, which allowed the disaster at Pearl Harbor to...
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Pearl Harbor is the base. It is US Navy base. The home of the Pacific fleet. The following targets on the Island of Oahu...
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Answerso that they could build an Asian empire
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At Pearl the main memorial is the battleship Arizona. It was hit by bombs, capsized and took over 1,000 of its crew down. The...
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None. MLM The military did know that an attack from Japan was imminate. What it did lack was where the attack would happen....
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To read an answer that SPECIFICALLY answers the question, read this paragraph. If you want to hear details, read the rest. FDR...
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AnswerThe Japanese did not actually dodge our radar sensors when they bombed Pearl Harbor. At the time of the attack there were...
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They used mostly antiaircraft guns and shot guns
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AnswerThere are a couple of reasons, first is that it gave the US a rallying cry, very similar to "remember the Alamo". In...
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Many US naval ships were harbored there and the attack destroyed most of them. Over 2,000 Americans were killed. Those are the...
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The attack on Pearl Harbour affected the outcome of World War II because this now brought in another power house country. The...
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Seeing as Australia had been at war since 1939, the attack at Pearl Harbour, December 7 1941, obviously, had no effect on...
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Absolutely not.. Roosevelt and the Chiefs of Staff knew exactly when and where the Japanese were going to attack 10 days before...
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Essentially the U.S. had been looking for an excuse to participate in the war without looking like the "bad guys." Wheras the...
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AnswerOn December 7, 1941 at 6:30 in the morning a Japanese mini sub was spotted, shot at and sunk in Pearl Harbor. The telegram...
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The United States of America. It is a U.S. Naval base. Hawaii was a US territory at the time ANSWER: DUH!!! the U.S.
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AnswerThe Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor complex in 1941 served as a a galvanizing factor on the US. Suddenly, amid all the...
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Not all were sailors of course, my grandfather was in the Army and stationed at Scholfield Barracks near Wheeler Field. At the...
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No. The United States declared war on Japan in World War II in reciprocity to Japan's declaration of war on the United States and...
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The desire of the Japanese government to dominate Asia. They wished to eliminate any chance that the American fleet could be...
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FDR was a great president, which is why he served 3 terms (12 years) in the White House. This was due to the fact that we were in...
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Why So Many Died at Pearl HarborSome cynics, conspiracy theorists, and honest critics of Franklin Roosevelt believe that his...
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it took us into world war 2
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AnswerThat was pretty much it. Although everybody recognised the fascist regimes for the evil that they were, and some people did...
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After bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conditions were very bad, thousands were in intence medical care. it was japans great...
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No bases were destroyed. Little carrier based airplanes could not carry nearly enough ordnance to destroy an entire base. However...
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Anything that they could get their hands on. From rocks, pistols, anti-aircraft weapons.. airplanes. One of the Japanese pilots...
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The steel cabins and buildings that are sitting on the top side. They are the ONLY structures sitting over the flat deck of the...
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Japan was engaged in a war with China. Early in 1941 the United States had stopped exporting oil to Japan. Oil is a strategic...
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It didn't. The Spanish American War was almost half a century before World War II and had nothing whatsoever to do with...
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This is a very in depth question to wich a short, simple answer is atempted here.Japan was involved with a war on the Chinese...
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It removed the option of not participating.
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AnswerBecause Japan had a notion to become a super military nation ,If they had defeated the Americans in the pearl harbour today...
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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People were very shocked because they didn't know it was coming.
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Answerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#Longer-term_effects AnswerFor one, the military started to...
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Because it got us into World War two which we had been staying out of up to that point. Michael Montagne
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You may mean the Japanese super battleship Yamato which was sunk off the coast of Kyushu in April 1945 .
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Although the Japanese attack suceeded in crippling the U.S. Pacific Fleet for the short term, the U.S. had certain advantages in...
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Some people would speculate that the US would have never entered World War II. Other people would say that war was inevitable....
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Honolulu International is the closest airport to Pearl Harbor. (Pearl Harbor is what is sounds like- a harbor for ships. )
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The Japanese were desperate. During WW1 Japan had been America's ally. When Japan tried to collect her share of the booty at...
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