The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, was the decisive moment that made the United States of America join World War Two. During and after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, America responded to the attack in different ways many times. The United States responses varied in effectiveness but all ended by turning in U.S. favour. [[EVENTS]]
The U.S naval officials placed in Hawaii decided that the best response, at the time, was to fire at the Japanese bomber planes and submarines using the anti-aircraft battle stations and other weaponry upon the ships which were stationed at Pearl Harbour 's 'Battleship Row '; the place that had been chosen as the Japanese ' primary focus for the first wave of attacks. By 10 o 'clock a.m, the …show more content…
D. Roosevelt passed the 'Executive Order 9066 ' that allowed the U.S military officers to forcibly remove and relocate one hundred ten thousand people of Japanese ancestry that lived, or were staying, in America at the time. Greg Robinson states that the internment camps were set up as a preventative that would help assist the American government in stopping international spies giving information to the Japanese military; a concern that had arisen even before the Pearl Harbour bombing. Another theory was that many non-Japanese American citizens also lived in fear that any Japanese-American they saw was a spy, and that the primary reason the U.S government decided to send away the Japanese-American people was to calm the large majority of the American population. When the announcement was made U.S. military officer, John L. DeWitt famously said, "A Jap 's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty," proving the United State 's view of the Japanese during WWII after Pearl Harbour. All surviving sixty thousand Japanese-Americans, after the Second World War had finished, in 1946 were sent home from the internment camps to find homes empty and vandalised, their jobs and stores were gone, and they could no longer return to their previous life; they would have to restart their lives in America. After these people started to reestablish a life in America, a section of Japanese-Americans no longer felt that they were full …show more content…
The primary reason for the raid was to send sixteen bomber planes with eighty volunteered crewmen to bomb Japan 's three major business cities: Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokohama, where the large majority of the Japanese population lived. Although the bombing caused minor structural damage - except for several factories and electrical companies which caused power outages over Japan - it instead caused the Japanese people to fear war with the United States. Another effect the Doolittle Raid had on the Japanese people was the realisation of how vulnerable their country was to attacks due to the close proximity with 'open ' Chinese land. James Scott states that while the attack 's purpose was fulfilled, there were other consequences to the raid. The Japanese first reacted by occupying China and executing approximately two-hundred fifty thousand Chinese citizens they accused of helping seventy-one American men escape. The attacks by the U.S, however, were successful in provoking a confrontational battle with Japan and retaliating to the Pearl Harbour bombings despite not causing as much damage and loss of life on the either
The U.S naval officials placed in Hawaii decided that the best response, at the time, was to fire at the Japanese bomber planes and submarines using the anti-aircraft battle stations and other weaponry upon the ships which were stationed at Pearl Harbour 's 'Battleship Row '; the place that had been chosen as the Japanese ' primary focus for the first wave of attacks. By 10 o 'clock a.m, the …show more content…
D. Roosevelt passed the 'Executive Order 9066 ' that allowed the U.S military officers to forcibly remove and relocate one hundred ten thousand people of Japanese ancestry that lived, or were staying, in America at the time. Greg Robinson states that the internment camps were set up as a preventative that would help assist the American government in stopping international spies giving information to the Japanese military; a concern that had arisen even before the Pearl Harbour bombing. Another theory was that many non-Japanese American citizens also lived in fear that any Japanese-American they saw was a spy, and that the primary reason the U.S government decided to send away the Japanese-American people was to calm the large majority of the American population. When the announcement was made U.S. military officer, John L. DeWitt famously said, "A Jap 's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty," proving the United State 's view of the Japanese during WWII after Pearl Harbour. All surviving sixty thousand Japanese-Americans, after the Second World War had finished, in 1946 were sent home from the internment camps to find homes empty and vandalised, their jobs and stores were gone, and they could no longer return to their previous life; they would have to restart their lives in America. After these people started to reestablish a life in America, a section of Japanese-Americans no longer felt that they were full …show more content…
The primary reason for the raid was to send sixteen bomber planes with eighty volunteered crewmen to bomb Japan 's three major business cities: Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokohama, where the large majority of the Japanese population lived. Although the bombing caused minor structural damage - except for several factories and electrical companies which caused power outages over Japan - it instead caused the Japanese people to fear war with the United States. Another effect the Doolittle Raid had on the Japanese people was the realisation of how vulnerable their country was to attacks due to the close proximity with 'open ' Chinese land. James Scott states that while the attack 's purpose was fulfilled, there were other consequences to the raid. The Japanese first reacted by occupying China and executing approximately two-hundred fifty thousand Chinese citizens they accused of helping seventy-one American men escape. The attacks by the U.S, however, were successful in provoking a confrontational battle with Japan and retaliating to the Pearl Harbour bombings despite not causing as much damage and loss of life on the either