This was somewhat a political decision that the United States needed to make in support of her allies. The U.S needed to prioritize strategy in choosing how they would act after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s military success’s in Europe. The U.S had two options as to how they would proceed with military action. We knew if Russia collapsed that would allow Hitler to then fully focus his attention to defeating the British as well as helping out the Japanese which was a great ally of Hitler. The Japanese military success with the bombing of Pearl Harbor was obviously of great importance to the United States but helping our allies defeat Hitler took precedence after Winston Churchill asked the president Franklin D. Roosevelt for support in defeating Hitler.
They expected the U.S. to declare war but not to be willing to fight long or hard enough to win. Their greatest concern was that the U.S. Pacific Fleet, based in Pearl Harbour could cut off their plans. As insurance, the Japanese navy undertook to cripple the Pacific Fleet by a surprise air attack. The U.S. had broken the Japanese diplomatic code and knew an attack was imminent. A warning had been sent from Washington, but it arrived too late.
They were forced to divert plans and weapons from the battle areas to homeland to protect them. Germany and Italy had also declared war against the United States. America was officially in World War II. Although the United States and Japan had bad intensions toward each other for quite a while, it took many events to build up that hatred and wish of destruction upon one another. The embargo, Tripartite Act, World War I all led to Pearl Harbor.
War Without Mercy Response Paper War Without Mercy reveals the role that racism played in World War II, with a specific focus in the Pacific Theater. War Without Mercy provides the reader with a fair amount of information regarding the cause of racism for both the Japanese and the American military. Racism affects the intensity of the violence of confrontations between the Japanese and the Americans at every battle, from the battle of Iwo Jima, to the battle of Peleliu. Racism had a direct tie to atrocities committed by both the Americans and the Japanese. Hatred is a natural result from extreme racism, as is the case with the soldiers of both sides in the Pacific Theater.
Why We Fight On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked upon American naval forces and air defenses at Pearl Harbor. This event gave Franklin Roosevelt the justification he needed to enter the United States in World War II. Other than that there were additional motivations for America’s entrance into the war. In 1931 Japanese invaded Manchuria. American had good relations with China so they told Japan if they don’t leave they will stop trading oil with them.
In Our Documents by Michael Beschloss President Fraklin Roosevelt applied the right tone and words for his speech to arouse the fighting spirit of the American people in support of the war effort. He mentioned that we were ambushed deliberately with intent of war. He also pointed out that we were purposely deceived by the Japanese. Lastly He ended his speech with the loss of many American lives. The ambush that woke the nation was intent of war.
Pearl Harbor was one of the most atrocious assaults on American soil. The surprise attack by the Japanese took place on the morning of December 7, 1941. Japan purpose was to cripple the U.S.’s Pacific fleet and crush any chance of a retaliation from the Pacific. After the attack the United States reacted by creating Internment Camps for Japanese Americans. This would entail uprooting thousands of Japanese from their homes.
Attack on Pearl Harbor In order to understand the importance of Pearl Harbor it is neccessary to look at what lead up to the attack, why the attack happened, what happened during the attack, and what happened after the attack. This attack happened on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the Pacific. This single attack changed Americans view point on the World War II. This attack made the United States of America join the war. The people of Ameirca decided that we had to join in this war because they brought the fight to us.
Many European countries had an increased sense of nationalism, or pride for their country. The British believed that they were “the finest race in the world, and the more of the world [they] inhabit, the better…” (D #4). Britain believed, as a country that capturing other countries would be beneficial. Many countries also felt that they could “uplift and civilize” other countries by capturing and influencing them (D #7). Since the entire country of Britain supported imperialism, the government didn’t have to worry about any backlash in its own
The Potsdam Declaration was presented as an Ultimatum that stated that if Japan did not want to surrender, the Allies would attack Japan resulting in “the inevitable and complete destruction of Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.” On the 28th of July, the U.S. received papers saying that the declaration had been rejected by the Japanese Government. The U.S. then decided to go forth with the bombing on Hiroshima. After the first bombing on Hiroshima Japan was then warned again, but still refused to surrender. This act showed that the Japanese were ruthless and were in no way ready to surrender, no matter what cost. They were fighting for their country and power and they were not going to stop for