what led up to Pearl Harbor?
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Well, the japanese had bombed one of the US ships, but they claimed that they did not see the US signs. That action angered the US, thus leading up to Pearl harbor. Yamatato, the  chief of the Military in Japan tried to persuade japan to bomb pearl harbor to see where the war was going. The battles that eventually led up to WWII was the battle of midway, the battles of Iwo Jima. The japanese enventually lost the war. During WWII Japan was a part of the axis powers, with Germany and Italy. After Pearl harbor happened, many many Japanese were sent to Internment camps, in the US, there were 10 total. They were located in California, Arizona, New mexico, Wyoming and i think Nevada(not sure about nevada but others i am positive). that is all that i can think of right now, hope this helped in some way.  :-)
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It was faught on the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.  A Japanese submarine was engaged and sunk by the Navy.  There were run-ins with both German and Japanese subs off of coast in the Atlantic and Pacific, but no battles on land
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Nope; the planners of the attack were firmly convinced that it would strike a crippling blow against their eventual rival in the Pacific, forcing the U.S. to make more favorable arrangements to split spheres of influence in the Pacific Rim.\n\nThe Japanese Empire was shamelessly and eagerly imperialist; they wanted everything in Asia subservient to them.  They saw the U.S.A. as the only serious obstacle to that hegemony, since the English, French, and Dutch were tied up in World War.
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Unofficially, the US was involved with WWII from the beginning, by sending supplies to the Allies.\nOfficially, in 1941.
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The deniability in this case is becoming less and less plausible. He ignored the warnings so he could make darn sure he had a "good reason" to start a war in the Middle East. It was his Pearl Harbor (for which warnings were also ignored intentionally).
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Both.\n\nThe Japanese knew that it was only a matter of time before the United States would enter the war, so they took a gamble to strike pre-emptively to keep America out of the war.\n\nTheir intent was not to scare America into submission, but to cripple the Pacific fleet enough so that it would take them over a year to rebuild. By that time, the Japanese figure that they would have entrenched themselves in the conquered territories to make it impossible for America to get them out.\n\nThey made a few mistakes:\n1) They underestimated America's industrial power. Under normal non-war conditions, it would have taken over a year to repair the fleet, but when all of America converted to war production, it took only a small fraction of that time.\n\n2) They crippled the battleship fleet, but the Navy aircraft carriers were not at Pearl Harbor at the time. Military wisdom at the time made the battleships the main fighting force of the fleet, but at that time, the Navy was already changing tactics to make aircraft carriers the main fighting force. The attack at Pearl Harbor only sped up that process. America retaliated to Pearl Harbor using their carriers.
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The US tried very hard to avoid this war and for a long time it ignored all the help requests that came from Europe. \nLikely for all the world, Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 1941 (http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/PearlHar )  and by that forced the US the join the war.\n\nIf Japan would not have done that, it is safe to assume that Germany would have win this war and got enough time to build an atom bomb. That would have influence all the world, imagine a Nazi regime with such a weapon.\n\nBTW- kingjoey66- Albert Einstein tried to warn the US government about the intense German efforts to develop the atom bomb but was almost arrested for that. Einstein was not involved with the atomic bomb development at all. His only (and major) contribution to the development is to show that such energy exists in any material.
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Sneak attack by the japanese on Pearl harbor, Hawaii ,which in turn we declared war on the japanese empire and germany, known as the axis powers, we were known as the allied powers, along with russia, england, france and others.Hope this answered your question.
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Mark was referring to the attack on Pearl Harbour. That is a good point, maybe they are a bit paranoid about having a large military presence as it attracted the Japenese in'41'. Or it could be the attitude of people from the lower 48 if "AFwife"s atitude is an example .
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She was one of those lost at Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941.\nhttp://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-h/cl50.htm
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TONS!!! Where do you want to start...the Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq, Hawaii, the Whole of the Spanish American War....Not standing up to Hitler until we were forced into war....IRAQ - twice!
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If you are talking about Pearl Harbor Dec 7th 1941 that is correct.  At the end of the Japaneses attack on Pearl Harbor there were only a very small amount of ships between Hawaii and the California Coast.\n\nThe Big mistake was that the fleet was anchored in two straight lines bow to stern and made a very large target.  Since then the Navy has a new policy to separate ships at anchor. And to anchor them in a random pattern.
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If Japan had not attached Pearl Harbor they would have attacked another target.  Remember Japan started the war in the Pacific not the U.S.  Pearl Harbor was a strategic target and base to the Pacific Fleet.  Our saving grace that day was the fact that our air craft carriers were out of port at the time.  \n\nJapan brought the war to our door step and we took it right back to Tokyo.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor and the resulting war between Japan and the Allied powers appears to be the culmination of a series of events and decisions that began in the 19th century. By the mid-19th century, western imperialism had come to east Asia. Various European powers had taken control of India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and various islands in the Pacific. After defeating the Qin Dynasty of China in the Opium Wars, several western imperial governments forcibly exploited China's resources. The Japanese were shocked by the European defeat of the Qin dynasty and the resulting conquest of Chinese territory and resources. It was also around this time, in 1853, that Commodore Perry appeared in Tokyo Bay with the "Black Ships" and ordered the isolationist, Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan to open trade with the west. The U.S. appeared to support the other western powers in their exploitation of China, even sending troops to help put-down the Boxer Rebellion. The U.S. also gained control, through victories in the Spanish American War, of several significant territories in the east Asia/Pacific area by the end of the 19th century, most notably the Phillipines and Guam.\n\nIn 1868, Japan's Tokugawa shogunate was forcibly replaced with a new government model during the Meiji restoration. Japan's new government's decided to try to achieve parity with the western powers, believing that the only other alternative was helpless victimization, as had happened to the Qin Dynasty.\n\nThus, Japan embarked on a period of significant economic, political, and military expansion (citation pending). In order to fund this expansion, resource-poor Japan embarked on a series of their own imperialistic moves that brought it into conflict with neighboring powers. In 1894, Japan defeated the then current Chinese government and took control of Taiwan. In 1904, Japan defeated Russian forces and took control of Russian territories in and around China and the Korean peninsula. In 1910, Japan took all of the Korean peninsula. Japan supported the UK and U.S. side in World War I and, as a reward, was awarded control of former German possessions in the central Pacific. In 1931, Japan forcibly established a "puppet" state in Manchuria. In 1937, having made further progress in constructing a large and modern navy and army, Japan initiated a large-scale of invasion of mainland China, attacking from Manchuria and at several points along China's Pacific coast.\n\nJapan's invasion of China now appeared to directly threaten the assets and territories of several of the western powers, including Great Britain (UK) and the U.S., who were strong allies. The move also threatened the U.S.' "Open Door Policy" concerning China. The U.S. and UK responded at first with diplomatic pressure, condemning Japan's aggression in China. Japan didn't back down, but instead continued it's military campaign in China and formally aligned itself with the Axis Powers in 1940. The U.S. responded with economic sanctions, including partial or full embargoes of scrap metal and gasoline, renouncing previously-signed trade agreements between the two countries, and closing the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. Again, the Japanese didn't back down and, in 1941, invaded northern Indo-China. The U.S. response was to freeze Japanese assets and initiated a complete oil embargo.\n\nOil was the most valuable and crucial resource that Japan required. In addition to fueling Japanese military operations, oil was vital for core economic activities. 80% of Japan's oil imports came from the U.S. Diplomatic negotiations climaxed with the Hull note of November 26, 1941, which Prime Minister Hideki Tojo described to his cabinet as an ultimatum. Therefore, Japan now had an important decision to make- either to comply with the U.S. and UK demands and back down from its aggression in China and the surrounding areas, or go to war w
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Have a look .. it is all there\n\nhttp://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ks&p=Franklin+Roosevelt%27s+Pearl+Harbor+Address+Speech%3F
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At 7:49 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, 183 Japanese dive- and torpedo-bombers, accompanied by Zero escorts, launched the first of two attacks against the American base at Pearl Harbor. A second wave of 168 Japanese aircraft arrived at 9 a.m. Eighteen operational warships, including four battleships, were sunk or heavily damaged; 188 aircraft were destroyed. 2,403 Americans were killed, among them 68 civilians, and 1178 were wounded.
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Pearl Harbor \nPearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 --\nOverview and Special Image Selection\nThe 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.\n\nEighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.\n\nBy late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.\n\nThe U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.\n\nThese great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accomodation might have been considered.\n\nHowever, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.\n\nhiroshima and nagasaki:\nSome of the most frequent queries concerning the atomic bombs are those dealing with the selection of the targets and the decision as to when the bombs would be used. \n\nThe approximate date for the first use of the bomb was set in the fall of 1942 after the Army had taken over the direction of and responsibility for the atomic bomb project. At that time, under the scientific assumptions which turned out to be correct, the summer of 1945 was named as the most likely date when sufficient production would have been achieved to make it possible actually to construct and utilize an atomic bomb. It was essential before this time to develop the technique of constructing and detonating the bomb and to make an almost infinite number of scientific and engineering developments and tests. Between the fall of 1942 and June 1945, the estimated probabilities of success had risen from about 60% to above 90%; however, not until July 16, 1945, when the first full-scale test took place in New Mexico, was it conclusively prove