Pearl Harbor is known as one of the most infamous days in American history. Although numerous Americans lament the event each year, many people do not know what caused the tragedy to occur. In 1937, Japan invaded China, where many Americans had gone to be missionaries, and the Japanese began bombing and even bombed a US Navy ship. Quickly, Japan seized much of Indochina and was planning on acquiring more because the Japanese wanted the US to join the war. As a result, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved the Navy’s Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor to keep a better eye on the Japanese. Afterwards, a few of the Allies, US, Britain, and the Netherlands, ended all trade with Japan. Declining drastically, Japan’s supply of
