Candidates Name- Da’Mya Puryear
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Evolution of sources
There are plenty of sources out there about the horrifying event that took place, but two sources really caught my attention the most.
For instance, “History.com” has pictures and maps explaining the traumatic event that happened during the sneak attack on the United States. But be careful there are some websites out there that are very questionable and unreliable but sometimes we have to trust the sources and wish for the best. The information I gathered on “History.com” have quotes from the general from …show more content…
The Japanese soldiers left the Naval base in such a mess. They managed to destroy almost 20 naval vessels, eight battleships, 300 airplanes. That’s not even the worst part. They killed more than 2,000 American soldiers and wounded 1000 of them. Shortly after the attack former President Roosevelt declared war on Japan. The mysterious and shocking attack on America was a very unexpected twist. No one was expecting Japan to sneak attack the United States like that, but ever since then nothing will be the same. Even though the United states wasn’t expecting the incident they should have been a little more cautious due to the previous threats and accusations that Japan were hinting on for decades.The only reason Japan attacked America is because they needed to fix their economic and demographic situations and the only way to do that was to expand into their neighbors territory and take over the import market. After the horrifying situation the United States and Japan tried to work around their problems but they couldn’t come to any type of agreement. It seemed as if the only way to fix all the conflict and drama was through war. No one expected Japan to go after America. None of the signs pointed to the United States. Even if America was expecting the incident they didn’t expect Japan to hit so close to home. Japan hit the American Navy base.