President Roosevelt stated on December 7th 1941 that today is “a date which will be infamy” and declared war on Japan (Martin 2004). December seventh is an important day in history because it started our involvement in world war two and over twenty-three hundred souls were lost that day. There were many different factors that contributed to this day into happening and what happened after. In 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria, which would eventually lead up to the China and Japan going to war in 1937. This war would anger the United States because, with China was a principle ally, Japan seized large parts of Chinas territory. In 1940, a year after Hitler starts World War II, Japan allies with him to invade Indochina, which creates more tension
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Tojo had troops simulate their attack on Pearl Harbor a month before the attack, to better prepare for all the destruction they hoped for. The United Stated demanded Japan to leave China, which Japan rejected and set sail for the attack. On December 4th 1941 a radio broadcaster said the words “East Wind Rain” which meant the attack was going to happen. On December 7th 1941 the attack on Pearl Harbor was started with two waves of a 350 plane fleet. These planes would be carrying modified battleship shells that can pierce a ships beck before exploding, which damaged nine battleships, causing some to even sink. The USS Arizona took the brunt of the attack due to a bomb detonating in the ships gunpowder magazine, causing Japanese planes to even rock in the air. The USS Arizona took 1,177 souls with it when it exploded. Many of the other ships were able to be repaired and helped avenge the attack (Martin …show more content…
This investigation was done by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts who later stated “it was dereliction of duty on the part of each of them not to consult and confer with the other respecting the meaning and intent of the warnings [sent by the War and Navy Departments regarding the danger of war with Japan], and the appropriate, either of defense required by the imminence of hostilities.”(Burtness 2011) In Burtness’s Journal he states how the commanders would have to talk to each other, they stated how they did not understand each other’s messages, but instead decided to ignore them. Admiral Stark was the appointed Chief of Naval Operations, which the Judge talked in his rulings. In the Austrian Journal of Politics & History the author states “that Stark was a patriot who willingly sacrificed his reputation to preserve that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to enable him, as the one person capable of leading the Allies to victory in war against Nazi Germany, to assume his proper mantle” (Burtness 2011). Pearl Harbor was a very tragic day in history and it is still not evident that the day could have been avoided due to the warnings received. Many Americans were lost this day; even forty-nine civilians were killed and many injured. The US lost many things that day but also caused
Tojo had troops simulate their attack on Pearl Harbor a month before the attack, to better prepare for all the destruction they hoped for. The United Stated demanded Japan to leave China, which Japan rejected and set sail for the attack. On December 4th 1941 a radio broadcaster said the words “East Wind Rain” which meant the attack was going to happen. On December 7th 1941 the attack on Pearl Harbor was started with two waves of a 350 plane fleet. These planes would be carrying modified battleship shells that can pierce a ships beck before exploding, which damaged nine battleships, causing some to even sink. The USS Arizona took the brunt of the attack due to a bomb detonating in the ships gunpowder magazine, causing Japanese planes to even rock in the air. The USS Arizona took 1,177 souls with it when it exploded. Many of the other ships were able to be repaired and helped avenge the attack (Martin …show more content…
This investigation was done by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts who later stated “it was dereliction of duty on the part of each of them not to consult and confer with the other respecting the meaning and intent of the warnings [sent by the War and Navy Departments regarding the danger of war with Japan], and the appropriate, either of defense required by the imminence of hostilities.”(Burtness 2011) In Burtness’s Journal he states how the commanders would have to talk to each other, they stated how they did not understand each other’s messages, but instead decided to ignore them. Admiral Stark was the appointed Chief of Naval Operations, which the Judge talked in his rulings. In the Austrian Journal of Politics & History the author states “that Stark was a patriot who willingly sacrificed his reputation to preserve that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to enable him, as the one person capable of leading the Allies to victory in war against Nazi Germany, to assume his proper mantle” (Burtness 2011). Pearl Harbor was a very tragic day in history and it is still not evident that the day could have been avoided due to the warnings received. Many Americans were lost this day; even forty-nine civilians were killed and many injured. The US lost many things that day but also caused