Pearl_Harbor

Pearl Harbor One of the main reasons that the United States was brought in this war was the Japanese attack onto Pearl Harbor. The incident arises when Japan which is already involved in the Second World War, decides that they want to further expand their empire by invading and dominating China. Because it has an alliance with Nazi Germany, they have already controlled French Indonesia and is menacing Britain's Pacific colonies. The United States using oil embargos hope to stop the advances of the Japanese. This causes U.S. - Japan relations to worsen. Japan then sends special diplomats to Washington in order to release tensions between the two countries. However these diplomats are a farce as in November 1941 Japanese ships are secretly being sent over to the United States. At 3:42 am on December 7, 1941 an officer of the deck sees something about fifty yards away and asks a sailor what the object is. The sailor replies that it is a periscope. The sailor also says that there is not supposed to be any submarines in the area. At about 6:10 am the Japanese aircraft carrier sends 183 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes into the sky. At 6:45 am the pearl, am, japanese, planes, attack, japan, harbor, about, war, united, states, second, sailor, one, first, away, world, way, sends, says, reasons, radar, oahu, miles, later, hour, diplomats, carrier, california, brought, between, begin, arrive, already, aircraft, 1941