what caused japan to attack pearl harbor? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
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The US had put an oil embargo on Japan for invading China. Without oil, Japan could not keep its war machine in operation - planes, ships and tanks use a lot of oil. \n\nI don't think you could really say attacking Pearl Harbor solved that problem, and of course it was not going to win the war, but it was the only way the Japanese military felt they could prolong the inevitable defeat. (They never believed that could actually beat the US in the end. But by attacking Pearl Harbor they thought they could gain 6 more months to advance into Southeast Asia).
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii\nAdak was attacked in the August of 1942.
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The US tried very hard to avoid this war and for a long time it ignored all the help requests that came from Europe. \nLikely for all the world, Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 1941 (http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/PearlHar )  and by that forced the US the join the war.\n\nIf Japan would not have done that, it is safe to assume that Germany would have win this war and got enough time to build an atom bomb. That would have influence all the world, imagine a Nazi regime with such a weapon.\n\nBTW- kingjoey66- Albert Einstein tried to warn the US government about the intense German efforts to develop the atom bomb but was almost arrested for that. Einstein was not involved with the atomic bomb development at all. His only (and major) contribution to the development is to show that such energy exists in any material.
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The immediate Causes of World War II are generally held to be the German invasion of Poland, and the Japanese attacks on China, the United States, and the British and Dutch colonies. In each of these cases, the attacks were the result of a decision made by authoritarian ruling elites in Germany and Japan. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war, armed resistance or both.
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Japanese won't fight this battle but they do have a good navy and good army. They are planning for something big in the region. They will not give up easily. They are looking to take Taiwan again. The US and the Japanese have a military cooperation thing. The Japanese are going to try to drag the states into the whole thing with China and Taiwan. It is happening already.
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It effectively dragged the United States into World War II, as well as polarizing many Americans against Japanese, including those who had lived in America their whole lives. Thousands of Japanese-Americans were moved to Internment Camps for the duration of the war, and many lost everything they owned in the process. Pearl was the start of a long and bloody struggle for control of the Pacific Ocean, which would rage for almost 4 years, and include battles such as the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. The bombing of Pearl also caused morale to drop dramatically, prompting the military to make a counter attack on Tokyo called the "Doolittle Raid," named for the officer who came up with it.
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try this..u might get some informations\n\n1.  http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm\n\n2.  http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm\n\n3.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor\n\n4.  http://www.ccdemo.info/PearlHarbor/PearlHarborDayRemembered.html\n\n5.   http://www.nps.gov/usar/ExtendWeb1.html
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If you are talking about Pearl Harbor Dec 7th 1941 that is correct.  At the end of the Japaneses attack on Pearl Harbor there were only a very small amount of ships between Hawaii and the California Coast.\n\nThe Big mistake was that the fleet was anchored in two straight lines bow to stern and made a very large target.  Since then the Navy has a new policy to separate ships at anchor. And to anchor them in a random pattern.
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Holy cow, some really horrible answers so far........\n\nThe US had imposed economic sanctions on Japan because of their invasion and occupation of Manchuria, and their invasion and occupation of most of Western China.  We wanted them to withdraw from China, and imposed increasingly stringent sanctions that were hurting the Japanese economy, which not only prevented them from supporting their military activities but also hurt civilian production and consumption.\n\nThe Japanese decided that the best way to get the resources they needed (primarily tin, rubber, oil and other natural resources)  was to invaded the resource rich Dutch East Indies.  They also felt they needed to invade US possessions in the Phillipines and the Central Pacific in order to provide an outlying perimeter to protect their conquests.  The Japanese were well aware that such actions would cause the US, Enland, and the Dutch to declare war on them.  Since the English and Dutch were heavily involved in the war in Europe against Germany and Italy, the only real threat the Japanese faced was the US, primarily the US Pacific Fleet which was based at Pearl Harbor.  \n\nTherefor the Japanese devised a plan whereby they would launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, crippling the US Pacific Fleet to the point where it couldn't interfere with their plans for quite some time.  By the time it could, the Japanese would have built up their outlying perimeter making it extremely difficult for any US fleet to interfere.  They also hoped that the attack would so horrify the US civilian population that the US government would sign a peace treaty and accept the status qou.  Admiral Yamamoto and other high level militarly leaders warned that if the US decided to go to war, it was a war that Japan could never win because of the industrial and economic might of the US.\n\nSo, the attack was in response to US sanctions, sanctions which crippled the ability of the Japanese to conduct their war in China.  Since they were unwilling to give up their conquests there, and any further invasion would bring about war against the US, they decided on launching a surprise attack.\n\nHerbmueller99 gave a very short, essentially correct answer. Bobmarley and karatekaty are pretty much dead wrong, and everybody else besides nywrek are almost dead wrong. Nywrek is generally correct, although it was no secret that Germany, Japan, and Italy had signed the Tripartite Pact, and the entire USN wasn't based at Pearl Harbor, just a majority of the Pacific Fleet.\n\nHigh school and college history teachers must be doing a lousy job nowadays, or people simply don't read anymore.
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try this page.. it has so much information about Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt getting into it.. hope it helps.. :o)\nwww.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html\nand also\nwww.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm
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Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by a belligerent nation which, at the time the attack took place, believed that its diplomats had already issued a declaration of war. Delay in deciphering, then typing the text of the communique resulted in the attack taking place before the declaration was actually delivered.\n\nThis is to be distinguished from a "terrorist" attack which typically is not by or on behalf of a nation, but rather a group of individuals.
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1) the US wanted to get the Japanese back for the bombing of Pearl Harbor\n\n2) the US wanted to intimidate the Soviet Union \n(because there were tensions between the US and the former Soviet Union and the US wanted to show the Soviet Union that it had a new, deadly weapon which the Soviet Union didn't have)\n\n3) Truman justified the dropping of the bomb by stating Japan would not surrender without an invasion that'd cause enormous loss of both American and Japanese lives. At least, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki...no American lives were lost (*rolls eyes*)\n\n\nThe bombing of Hiroshima came first (August 6, 1945), the US dropped the bomb in hopes Japan surrenders.\nSince Japan didn't surrender, 3 days later (August 9, 1945) the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. \nJapan got the point, surrendered, and World War 2 was over.
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Japan entered WWII because numerous world powers were going to impose economic and resource sanctions against them.  The sanctions were going to be put into place becuase of Japan's war on China.  The Japanese took this very seriously as an act of war and went on the offensive first.
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The question:\n\nWould we have joined World War Two if Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor?\n\nThe answer:\n\nCheck it out here; it's really interesting: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Ai6fsEgESenbEPC2ThudBXEjzKIX?qid=1006041013039
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B - because of the advances in mainland China, it forced the US to fight a two front war.  The Japanese caused the americans, and Russians to have to balance their military efforts.  If the US and Russia could have spent less time in Asia, then they could have taken care of the German and Italians faster.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt  wanted to help the allies as a neutral nation.  After Sunday,7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack by Japan;the next day the Germans declared war against the US . America legally and officially declared war on Thursday,11 December 1941.  Europe would get help first and then Japan was second.\n\n\n\nGood night y'all.
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At 5 am Sept 1st 1939, Hitler invades Poland. The British and French issue an ultimatum by that afternoon. It expired at noon GMT Sept 3rd. Birtan and France then declared war on Germany, HOWEVER, World War II was not a world war until Japan attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor on Sunday Dec. 7th 1941 at 7am. Go find someone who was there, like I did. I'm sure they have many intresting tales to tell. Dont be afraid of the old. They actually like to talk about the good old bad old days.