2007-01-04 07:04:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Japan Invades China for gaining natural resources for their industrial machine...US responds by placing embargo of Steel and oil on Japan. Japan knew the only threat to them is the US, so they wanted to cripple the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and blow up the Panama Canal. US would have to divide its Atlantic fleet and it cost time to move the ships, by then the Japanese would have been dug in throughout asia. That was the plan...
2007-01-04 07:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by Laughing Man Copycat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. It was launched by the 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy of the task force Carrier Striking Task Force [1] on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 (Hawaii time). The attack targeted the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy and its defending Army Air Corps and Marine air squadrons, as a preemptive strike against the US Pacific Fleet and was intended to neutralize American forces in the Pacific, thus increasing Japan's chances of seizing natural resources in Southeast Asia. Pearl Harbor was the first of several military and naval installations attacked, including those on the other side of the island, and others across the Pacific.
2007-01-04 07:07:47 · answer #2 · answered by mr.JAW58 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pearl Harbor was not the only pre-emptive strike on military targets - the Japanese were looking to neutralize potential interfereence.
2007-01-04 07:10:51 · answer #3 · answered by belmyst 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The high government and naval high command believed that if they could cripple our Pacific fleet it would give them time to consolidate their gains in the pacific before they would have serious interference from us. With us at such a disadvantage some even hoped we would have to negotiate a settlement of the war with Japan. The entire idea became moot when they failed to destroy carriers at Pearl Harbor (none were there).
2007-01-04 07:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by toff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pre-emptive attempt to destroty the naval fleet of the US before the US became involved with the conflict
2007-01-04 07:06:38 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
destroy the fleet before the war,
hawaii is the closest area to Japan
that they would have had no one to deal with if we keep only bases in california
2007-01-04 07:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Japanese were always agressors and lived for their king. They just wanted more stuff. They also attacked China many times. Very very agressive.
2007-01-04 07:06:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They only did that because the United States cut off their oil supply.And it was do something or have their economy crash.
2007-01-04 07:09:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the U.S. provoked them
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html
2007-01-04 07:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
to shut down the chinese laundries on oahu
2007-01-04 07:07:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋