United States Pacific Fleet

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” (American). President Roosevelt said this the day after Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. The bombing of Pearl Harbor affected America in a bad way because there were many causalities as well as many ships lost. The attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, was a tragic event in American history.…

to change their environment from its existing state to their desired end state. They both strove for victory over totalitarian powers in Europe and the Pacific. Both men advocated an alliance with Great Britain and prosecution of an allied strategy to defeat the Axis powers. Stark envisioned a pursuing an allied strategy with Britain across multiple theaters. Wedemeyer initially planned for war in the European theater and deterrence in the Pacific. Both acknowledged the necessity of…

The United States began to enter the war when the Japanese attacked the United States’ naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. This established an international tension between the United States and Japan. Japan’s main objective was to take over lands throughout in East Asia so they would not have to depend western imports all the time. Tension between America and Japan rose when the Japanese army invaded and attempted to claim Manchuria in 1931. The Rape of Nanking also triggered the United States…

countrymen... I and all of you should be honored and grateful for the success on the attack against the sleeping ogre of the United States. Without the leadership of our beloved emperor and the efforts of the flowers of the Japanese soldiers, we would be under the perils of the United States' inky black tentacles right now. We were able to sink every single American Pacific carrier, no battleships were left behind. The Americans were greatly unprepared and were no match for our brave imperial…

U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircrafts. The only battle that the U.S fleet lost was The Battle of Yorktown. In six months of offensives prior to Midway, Japanese had triumphed in lands throughout the Pacific. These lands include Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines and numerous of other island groups. The United States however, was an increasing threat. Japanese Admiral sought to carry out his plan to destroy the U.S. Pacific…

Pearl Harbor stemmed from intensifying Japanese-American rivalry In the Pacific. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States declared War against Japan. Also four days after the attack upon Pearl Harbor, on December 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, thus bringing America into World War 2. The day After The Attack On Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt Said “The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked, that no matter…

The Pacific Theatre was fought primarily on the Pacific Ocean as well as various islands located in the Pacific Ocean. The first Island captured by Japan was Indochina, including the French colonies of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This is what made tensions rise between the US and Japanese forces and what started the Japanese’s fight against the United States. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but they also attacked "the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand,…

1870. The Northern Pacific Railroad was completed on September 8, 1883 when former President Ulysses S. Grant drove the final “golden spike” in Montana, despite all the financing struggles they encountered. The railroad offered many services to include shipping of consumer goods, sale of farm land, and the transportation of passengers. Throughout time the Northern Pacific Railroad had such great success that it led to the Burlington Northern Railroad merger. The Northern Pacific Railroad merged…

will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well,” proclaimed President Franklin D. Roosevelt when World War Two began in Europe (Brinkley, 728). A remarkable amount of the population in the United States favored Great Britain, France, and the rest of the Allied nations over the Axis powers which consisted of Japan, Italy, and Germany. However, the American government did not want to get involved in another war, so they isolated themselves. In…

If the United States was warned of the attack and had a very good army, why did they lose against Japan? Pearl Harbor was one of the biggest military bases of the United States, and it was destroyed by a beautifully planned and executed military maneuver, in the words of the Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. The Japanese army wasn´t as organized as the American one, it didn’t have the same weaponry that the one in Pearl Harbor, but they made it to beat the United States, which…