Anything you know about Pearl Harbor and the start of the second world war?

Answer 1

Japan had a terrible inferiority complex. They felt that such an old civilization as theirs had every right to join the "big boys" in international affairs. Germany had a big presence in the Pacific area before the "Great War", which they lost. Allying with Japan, there was some potential to regain their place, or at least rob the imperialist allies of what they took.

I was just reading today about Magnus Hirschfield, a psychologist who wrote back in 1935 of his tour of Asia. One of the things he said was that Japan faced overpopulation because of their nationalistic masculine image--males feeling their importance, so he said that the people either needed to curb their fecundity or expand. Expand they did. Into China. Into Korea. Into Formosa/Taiwan. Into points beyond. The Philippines were controlled by the Americans now and that kept them from Indonesia, where there was a lot of oil and the German allies need a lot of oil.

Japan knew that the American naval strength was often concentrated in Hawaii, at the Pearl Harbor navy base. If the Japanese could cripple the naval presence in the Pacific, then all the expansion plans were suddenly easily within their grasp. Americans, after all, are being preoccupied with europe because of their ties to England. With the Americans out of action, they wouldn't be able to help the Chinese, they wouldn't be able to help the British interests in south Asia and Australia.

The excellent plan worked wonderfully. The Japanese fleet sailed under cover of a cold front storm line. The only thing that failed was the advance warning that was supposed to be given, outlining how the disarmament negotiations had become such a colossal embarrasment to Japan. Unfortunately, the decoding and typing was a good deal slower than anticipated. So that diplomatic aspect didn't work according to plan. Still, the Americans in the Pacific were knocked out.

Germany took the cue and declared war against the US because the Americans declared war against their ally on the other side of the globe. So Americans were divided in their attention. Japan took advantage and soon had both the Americans and British on the ropes. It almost worked. Americans became a good deal more tenacious than they expected, however.

Answer 2

The second world war started in September 1939 with Hitler's invasion of Poland and the declaration of war against Germany by France and Britain.
It wasn't until December 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Hitler declared war against the USA two days later that the USA was forced to fight.

Answer 3

WWII began mostly form the tensions after WW1:The Versailles treaty haad weakened Germany so much that the allies thought it could never recover. However, all this managed to do was tick Germany off so that Hitler began to try and make it strong again. The allies were so scared of starting another war as bad as WW1 that they let Hitler get away with adding countries peacefully to Germany. it wasn't until hitler invaded Poland that the Allies realized he had to be stopped and began war. America succeeded in an attempt to stay Neutral until Japan surprised us with a sneak attack on pearl harbor on December 7, 1941, a day President Franklin Roosevelt said would "Live in infamy." This drew America into the war and indirectly made Japan surrender with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki two days later.

Answer 4

The leaders of the federal government understood that the USA would not be capable to keep neutrality for the period of WW2. Even earlier than the oil embargo the US and Japan were eyeing each and every different for years as capabilities enemies. Japan understood that with their enlargement they might eventually have got to manage the US, and the foremost danger to Japan was once the US Navy. As for Germany our executive, and proper so, understood that Hitler wasn't anybody the US desired to best friend with. They additionally understood that till such time because the US would input battle, they needed to deliver Britain with presents in any other case Britain would've fallen as good. When Pearl Harbor occurred Japanese officers anticipated Germany NOT to claim battle at the USA thereby turning America's attention away, no longer toward, Europe. But Hitler made his moment dull mistake of 1941 by means of pointing out battle at the USA (his first pointing out battle on Russia).

Answer 5

yeah bh8153 got it right Rabbit deserves best answer for sure, i do a lot of war history research and he nailed it, Well Pearl was the start of the second world war militarily for the USA, the war was already up and going in Europe and though America while not formally involved had informally allied itself with Britain and her commonwealth (Canada New Zea land Australia etc) via the lend lease act - which was about supplying a struggling Britain with materials to fight with but not getting directly involved militarily in exchange for some British islands and commonwealth bases. Sidwell stop talking crap, the fleet was posted to pearl to dissuade the japs from doing anything silly, The Americans at the last minute thought the japs may plan an attack but had no idea one was imminent.

Full points to rabbit.

Answer 6

Here is one thing - Pearl Harbour wasn't the start of the Second World War.

Answer 7

President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his backdoor to war.

FDR blinded the commanders at Pearl Harbor and set them up by denying intelligence to Hawaii (HI) on Nov 27, misleading the commanders into thinking negotiations with Japan were continuing to prevent them from realizing the war was on, and having false information sent to HI about the location of the Japanese carrier fleet.

Answer 8

Hi Candace, note that Sidwell is talking prejudiced rubbish, and Rabbit is the one who has the straight facts.