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    joined the war after a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor early Sunday morning. This plan, known as Operation Z, was created by Isoroku Yamamoto, a Japanese Marshal Admiral. Just before 8:00a.m. on December 7, a fleet of Japanese war planes approached the Hawaiian island of Oahu and bombed the U.S. naval base, Pearl Harbor. A total of over three hundred Japanese fighter and bomber planes were sent in two waves to carry out the attack. Radars located at Pearl Harbor picked up a signal of…

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    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…

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    On December 7th 1941, Pearl Harbor was deliberately attacked by the Empire of Japan. This day would become, “a day that will live in infamy” according to Franklin Roosevelt. The attack on Pearl Harbor left about 2,500 sailors dead and a thousand more wounded. It was evident, that the attack was planned months before the set day, and became apparent that the United States was mislead by the Empire of Japan in believing an attack would not be coming. It is said that the attack happened because the…

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    speaking to Congress on the attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii was attacked by the over 350 Japanese planes in a surprise attack staged by the empire of Japan. Although the United States was not yet involved in World War II, their naval forces posed a threat to the Japanese’s push for expansion in the South Pacific. This propelled the Japanese Empire to attack the US. Amongst many other things, most importantly, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor prompted the United…

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    Pearl Harbor is the naval base in the U.S. territory of Hawaii, Japan surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941 before the attack, no one knew this would happened overnight, America was forced to the World War II by Japanese, this was a rough day to America. During the attack, nearly two thousands and five hundred Americans dead and one thousands and two hundred wounded. The attacked change the United States. Before the attack happened, none of the high-ranking officials knew.…

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    Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7th 1941. What is unique to this particular film, is that we have the ability to see these events unfold from an American and a Japanese perspective. As the Japanese inch closer to their attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States begins to intercept Japanese telegrams giving the United States access to Japan’s plans and whereabouts in the Pacific. Vice-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in Chief of the Japanese Navy insist that the plan to…

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    Attack on Pearl Harbor On December 8,1941 President Roosevelt said his famous quote “ this date which will forever live in infamy.” This was a day before the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base, Pearl Harbor. I am doing this specific war in history because I feel like this more popular event in time misinterpreted because a majority of the people of this generation only know about this date because of a movie. In this I’m going to discuss not only what happened during the attack, but also…

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    Japanese Admiral Yamamoto made a very important foreshadowing statement after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” He meant that the Japanese had poked the U.S. awake and the Japanese were about to be swallowed. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed the United States Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor. There was a lot of infrastructure damage and human lives lost as a result.…

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    How did the Attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 turn the tide against the Japanese during the World War 2? On Sunday the 7th of December 1941 the Japanese began their unexpected attack on the US Pacific Fleet at 7:55am. This attack was not decided over night or over a period of a few days but according to Source B, the attacks had been slowly brewing for years. Once japan occupied Manchurian, conflict intensified. According to source B as Japanese aggression increased, its relations with the US…

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    where Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. We went to WW2 with Japan because of them attacking us. (Document Hook, B, and D) are the three main documents that people believe are the reasons Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. In the (Hook) part it talked about the Immigration Quota Act. In document B it talked about the Japanese Expansion. Also in the document D it had a big deal about the Embargo which is another reason on why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of the…

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