2007-11-21 20:34:07 · 9 answers · asked by J H 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Japan attacked PEARL HARBOUR of America,so in answer to that America too started attacking Japan n then both the countries made allies n started the war
2007-11-21 20:46:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up to that point, the U.S. was trying to keep out of the war.
But then the Japanese attacked the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The rest is history, as they say.
2007-11-21 20:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. The U.S. was supporting China. But Japan did not attack Hawaii in an attempt to take Hawaii or expand against the U.S.
Japan was bogged down in its war with China. It needed materials and supplies to win. With the U.S. drastically reducing (I can't remember if it was an embargo) it's exports to Japan, Japan had to act. The goal was not to bring the U.S. into the war. But to hurt us badly enough that Japan could consolidate it's power in the Pacific before we could recover and that it would not be worth the fight. Their hope was that we would not fight back.
2007-11-21 21:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by Justin 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Japanese attempted to expand their empire being such a physically small nation. They knew that to do it, they had to face the US. The US was already unofficially attempting to thwart their expansion into China. At the time, the US was allied to China. Japan was at war with China already.
In Japans attempt at expansion, they began against the US by attacking the US Naval Forces at Hawaii.
2007-11-21 20:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by Rev TL 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was when the American Government didn't allow the Japanese to have the oil supply .America think that the Japanese had done too much destruction that's why the U.S. government think that it will be better if they wouldn't have the supply of oil.
2007-11-21 21:18:44 · answer #5 · answered by mildred D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Failure of the Treaty of Versailles
The Appeasement, Isolationism, and the Failure of the League of Nations
Fascism, Nationalism, Totalitarianism, and Collectivist Ideology
Expansionism
Economic Depression and Instability
Entangling Alliances
Napoleon and Bismarck
2007-11-21 21:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by magedoll13 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Japan wanted Asia and the Pacific.
The US was opposed to it.
2007-11-21 21:01:41 · answer #7 · answered by cole m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was something about a dispute over hawaii. both nations wanted to claim the islands as their own property, so that started a skirmish between the two.
2007-11-21 20:43:37 · answer #8 · answered by luverzero 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
are you kidding me? seriously!
2007-11-21 20:43:29 · answer #9 · answered by adam h 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋