how did the attack on pearl harbor lead us into world war II?
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Here is an idea, do your own homework.  \n\nI could tell you, but then you wouldn't learn anything that way.  By looking up the information yourself, it should stick in your head and be useful information to have for any future tests you have coming your way.
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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
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There were no protests, but there was a strong public opinion before Pearl Harbor that we should not enter the war. Afterwards, the country very strongly felt that they had to enter the war.
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The question:\n\nWould we have joined World War Two if Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor?\n\nThe answer:\n\nCheck it out here; it's really interesting: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Ai6fsEgESenbEPC2ThudBXEjzKIX?qid=1006041013039
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Japan entered WWII because numerous world powers were going to impose economic and resource sanctions against them.  The sanctions were going to be put into place becuase of Japan's war on China.  The Japanese took this very seriously as an act of war and went on the offensive first.
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September 1, 1939 for the war in Europe, December 7th 1941 United States enters World War II in both Europe and Asia.\nGermany declared war on the United States on December 10th, 1941.Germany surrenders May 8th 1945, Japan bombed on both August 6 and again on the 9th formally surrenders Sept 1, 1945.
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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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World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place in 1939–1945. It was the largest and deadliest war in history, culminating in the Holocaust and the dropping of the atom bomb.
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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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The events leading to World War II, its military operations, diplomacy, statistical data, and results, are discussed under the following headings:\n\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_i.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, UK.
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Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by a belligerent nation which, at the time the attack took place, believed that its diplomats had already issued a declaration of war. Delay in deciphering, then typing the text of the communique resulted in the attack taking place before the declaration was actually delivered.\n\nThis is to be distinguished from a "terrorist" attack which typically is not by or on behalf of a nation, but rather a group of individuals.
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- Germany invaded poland\n- Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor\n- Battle Of Midway\n- Battle of Britain\n- United states dropped two atomic bombs on japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki)\n\nfor some...\n\nIf you are looking in only 1944\n - Southern France invaded\n - Battle of Philppine sea\n - B-29 raids in japan\n - Battle of Leyte
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Subjigating China, threatining Australia and it's Pacific satellities and eventually attacking the United States at Pearl Harbor in an attempt to beat down the United States Navy/Air Force to the point where we wouldn't be able to stop them from conquering all the islands in the Pacific. If we had surrendered or lost, they probably would've conquered Hawaii as well.
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The answer to this is complex and depends on whose history you read. However, the European side of WWII was caused solely by Adolf Hitler's quest for power.  He used tactics such as the Dolchstoss Legend, which stemmed from the "stab in the back" sentiments of the Treaty of Versailles, to gain power.  These tactics gained him wide support from Germans who were still bitter from their loss of WWI.  It also rallied anti-semitism because this legend, in part, blammed the Jews for the loss.  Initially Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement towards Hitler, allowing him to take over former German lands such as Czechoslovokia.  However, Hitler kept wanting more. WWII started after Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939.  Great Britain and France, allies of Poland, declared war two days later. \n\nOf course, if you look at WWII from the point of view of Asia, the war started much earlier.  According to China, the war started when Japan invaded them and the infamous Rape of Nanking occurred.  \n\nThe US became involved initially with the Cash and Carry policy developed in 1939.  The US, still struggling with the economic depression, used this to remain neutral but to fuel the need for industrial jobs.  After a while, though, Great Britain and France could no longer afford to pay the US for goods and the US enacted the Lend-Lease program in 1941.  This program allowed for much the same, but the Allies were not paying for the goods immediately.  Therefore, it could be argued that since the US only provided goods to Allied forces, we were involved in the war since 1939. \n\nHowever, most pinpoint US involvement as occuring shortly after  December 7, 1941 (the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese).    Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, with Hitler wanting to declare war on US before we could declare war on anyone. The United States was fuming at the Japanese, but the president decided to focus more on the European front first, making that top priority.
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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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world war 2 was going on
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well first off the germans bombed pearl harbor, and no they did not use nukes. you should watch ANIMAL HOUSE it is a great documentary. you will learn a lot.