There was a very large amount of anti-Japanese prejudice, especially in the West Coast. The discrimination against Japanese Americans was even at the federal level. Two months after the Pearl Harbor bombing, President Roosevelt authorized the “Executive Order 9066”. This provoked the evacuation of Japanese people from their homes. The United States was afraid there were more Japanese spies plotting another attack.
This is the same day that pearl harbor was being decimated by the Japanese. At that moment Indianapolis was assigned to a task force with the mission to find the Japanese carriers responsible for the attack, however the mission was unsuccessful. Throughout WWII the USS Indianapolis was involved with numerous Naval battles in the pacific including crucial battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. The Indianapolis was imperative in these clashes providing support for the landing. During the Pre-invasion of Okinawa on 24 March 1945 the Indianapolis bombarded the beach defenses for seven days.
This was done for protection for the country and not to create harm to the Japanese, unlike the Nazi’s goal to create a pure Arian race. After the ever decreasing association between Japan and the United States, their heartless attack on Pearl Harbor only depleted the relationship even more. The attack on Pearl Harbor was an undignified and startling attack on December 7, 1941. This was the beginning of the second world war, a war that would change the entire modern-world. The Japanese created a surprise attack on the United States using Japanese bombing planes.
The reading, “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Bomb,” by Robert James Maddox, explains the process taken in for the Americas to decide to drop the two newly discovered atomic bombs over the Japanese homeland cities of Hiroshima and three days later Nagasaki. Americans should be well informed on this information. This is a perfect article for this class because it marks a very important milestone in our nation’s history. The Japanese were a strong powerful enemy of the US during the end of WWII. “The Japanese had more than 2,000,000 troops in the home lands, and were training millions of irregulars” pg.
Pearl Harbor Address December 8th, 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to incite action into a nation of troubled Americans after a sudden Japanese onslaught. In his address to congress given the day after the Japanese bombings was a request for a declaration of war upon Japan. Roosevelt created a speech that was dramatic, sufficient, and to the point therefore, understandable to the nation of worried Americans. The purpose of his speech was to clearly present the details of the attack, reveal the Japanese threat along the Pacific, and to thrust America into military action, which successfully led to the United States declaring war with Japan. Throughout the United States, American citizens were still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Jewish people, Slavs, and all non-white people were deemed unfit by the Nazis. 9. Why did the United States enter World War II? After the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, the United States entered WWII. 10.
The results of these operations are often cited as one of the turning points of World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in human history, with combined casualties estimated to be above 1.5 million. 8) Battle of Midway: The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle, widely regarded as the most important of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. It took place from 4 June to 7 June 1942, exactly six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, was aimed at the elimination of the United States as a strategic Pacific power, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
It happened on an 8 square mile island that took the mane, Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima, par 1). American troops were told that their goal was to take the airfield of Iwo Jima for the future bombing of Tokyo. The Japanese were assigned to kill ten American soldiers before they had the right to die. The battle lasted from February 19, 1945 to March 26, 1945, which was a little over a month,. In thirty-six days there were nearly twenty-six thousand US casualties, almost seven thousand American troops were KIA (Hama, Erksine and Williams 98).
This is a tragic end of human life in Japan when US attacked with the atom bomb. Japan made a huge a mistake by attacking Pearl Harbor and that made the US participate in the war and they won the war with allies in 1945. Works Cited Parkinson, Roger (1973). Attack on Pearl Harbor New York: Putnam (2008, Nov, 12) Iwnit on answer bag Ian Kershaw (1940-1941). Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World Terry Brighton.
Julia Lewis English 103 November 29, 2011 Word Count: 2806 Pearl Harbor: Heinous Mistake or Tragic Conspiracy? There are historic moments in life that people will always remember: "Where were you on 9/11? "; "Where were you when JFK died?". For the members of the Silent Generation, it was "Where were you when Pearl Harbor was attacked?". It was dubbed the "Day of Infamy" by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: a terrifying day that would live on in Americans' memories for the rest of their lives.