Cause And Effect Of Japan's Attack On Pearl Harbor

On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. There were three-hundred fifty-three Japanese planes. Japan’s attack was a surprise. The Japanese’s main target where the aircraft carriers, but they were not at base. They only attacked the ships and planes, but left places like oil storages unharmed. They also attacked on Sunday because they thought it would be a relaxed and less alert day. They were correct. It happened that the facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended before and during the attack. This let the Japanese do the damage they wanted. More than two-thousand three hundred people were killed and one-thousand injured. However, the Japanese also lost men, but only less than one hundred. The attack lasted two long hours.
There were many causes that led to this attack. The United States had been threatening Germany to try to get them to retaliate, but it was not working. Japan’s ally, Germany, did not attack the United States because they knew that they had changed the World War I outcome and did not want that again. President Roosevelt went after Japan, so they would retaliate and so would Germany and Italy then. The United States wanted Japan to abandon their treaty with Germany and Italy. As expected, Japan rejected the offer, but returned one of their wishes. They wanted to take …show more content…
On December 7, Japan’s fleet was two-hundred seventy-five miles away from Hawaii. The first bomber appeared at 7:55 A.M. The radar at Pearl Harbor was unreliable and surveillance pilots were few and untrained. An army private saw planes on his radar and was told to ignore them. Pearl Harbor could be attacked from any direction and it had nothing to defend against torpedo planes. Japan was unchallenged in the air except for the ground forces. The Japanese commander called out, “Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!” telling the Japan Navy the United States had been