Pearl harbor(10 points for good answer)!!!?

Question: Pearl harbor(10 points for good answer)!!!!?

in ww2 why did the japanese attack us that sad morning on dec!.7!?!?!?!?!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Japan had been involved in an aggressive war with mainland China since the mid 1930's!. The brutality of that war was such that popular opinion in the USA became gradually more anti-Japanese and pro-Chinese!.

Eventually these feelings translated into the USA leading an international movement to isolate Japan economically and thus force them to withdraw from China!. Primarily the USA plan was to cut off credit to the Japanese which would prevent them from being able to purchase petroleum!. Japan received petroleum (an absolutely vital economic and military commodity, then as it is now) from three sources: The USA, Dutch east indies (Indonesia) and Burma (British controlled in the 1940's)!. The USA inspired movement included all three sources!.

Japan could/would not accept a withdrawal from the Chinese war and instead began planning a first strike against the USA navy!. Eliminating or reducing the USA naval forces in the Pacific would make the Japanese navy paramount, and thus Japan would be able to defeat the economic consequences of the USA ultimatum!. After eliminating the USA navy Japan planned to occupy the Dutch East Indies and Burma, thus gaining control of enough oil to run their military and economy!.

The strike on Pearl Harbor did exactly as hoped by the Japanese!. The USA fleet was crippled!. The Dutch lacked forces to repel the Japanese!. The British navy (as ordered by Churchill) sent forces to defend their areas but these were totally inadequate for the job and were decimated quickly!. Japan occupied all the oil producing areas and settled down to a war of attrition against the USA, which they hoped would wear down the USA politically and enable them to keep their conquests!.

Of course, the USA developed, under MacArthur and Nimitz, tactics which overcame the Japanese positions and eventually led to the collapse of Japanese power in east Asia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese navy, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, resulting in the United States becoming involved in World War II!. It was intended as a preventive action to remove the U!.S!. Pacific Fleet as a factor in the war Japan was about to wage against Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They were moving south to get rubber and oil!. Look at the other places they attacked at the same time!.
The US fleet had normally been stationed at home, not in Hawaii!. They'd been placed at Pearl a few months earlier because they were planning to sail against the Japanese when they moved against Indonesia, etc!. The Japanese knew this, so they thought it would be better to strike preemptively rather than let the US sail west to meet them!. This in part is because the IJN had a strong feeling that offensive operations were the key to victory, as they'd beaten the Russians and so impressed Teddy Roosevelt at Port Arthur and the Tsutsima Straits!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Japanese attacked us because they could and wanted to send us a message, this is what got us involved in the war and what drove us to victory!. Nice questionWww@QuestionHome@Com

um because the japenese wanted our landWww@QuestionHome@Com

watch the movie!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

we cut off their oil supply and warned them to get out of china!.which upset their plans!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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