Six days ago, on the morning of December 7, 1941 thousands of Japanese fighter planes attacked at Honolulu, Hawaii at the American Naval base by Pearl Harbor. The attack on us, the Americans, only lasted two hours, but the damage was significant. The Japanese destroyed nearly 20 American naval ships and over 300 airplanes. Many lives were lost, almost 2,000 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded. President Franklin D. Roosevelt just declared war on Japan. The effect of that now is that Japan’s…
TITLE What was the cause behind the attack that started this awful war between Japan and the United States in 1941 in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor and the naval fleet there is where Japan decided to strike on December 7, 1941, it did not take long for the information on the both the attack and Japan to reach U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt, and how the United States responded to this attack started the Pacific War. Japan decided to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, even though they knew…
The economy fully converted towards a wartime economy in order to aid the war effort following Pearl Harbor. Public sentiment related to joining a war was incredibly warry as memories of the financial collapse of the 1930’s due in some part to the overproduction during World War I led many to fear falling for the same mistake again. Nothing was definite in the nation’s understanding of the war, and the doubt generated in the war’s future led to a hesitant mobilization effort. The nation “couldn’t…