why American film "Pearl Harbor"??

Question

why American film "Pearl Harbor"??
what is the political issues in it?
and why they produce lots of films that portray American as the victim of the war around that time?

Answer 1

there are many faults in the movie but it was pretty entertaining.
USA was the victim but a sneak attack!?, The USA knew full well attack was coming,they could read the Japanese diplomatic code but just didn't know where, yes the declaration or war was handed late.
japan attacked the USA to neutralize the fleet while they expanding their empire into the south east Asia region, after sanctions were imposed due to the Japaneses invasion of china. the Japanese knew the us would deploy the fleet if japan started to expand their aggression any further, with the sanctions imposed on oil the Japanese war machine would of ground to a halt, the dutch indies and Borneo with rich oil resources we're ripe for the picking see that the the European countries were in turmoil with Hitler.
Japan originally had no plans to invade the USA, they we're hoping to demoralize the fleet and negotiate a truce that they be left alone to expand into Asia, they vastly underestimated the wrath the attack on pearl harbor would bring. I think if they had there time over they would leave the fleet alone and just go into southeast Asia, at the time most of the population we're dived about the war in Europe and the war in china. the attack united the the American people to one resolve, destroy japan, not quite what they had hoped for,

Answer 2

Well first off, I don't see Turkey, Iran or North Korea making a film about Pearl Harbor something a part of American history.

Second, before WW2 Americans were isolationist, the diplomats tried to follow that idea but were also realists. They understood that America would be dragged into the war (again). But unlike so many have said, yes the diplomatic code had been broken, but that doesn't mean a thing except a declaration of war. Many experts of the day considered the Philippines the main target, NOT Pearl Harbor.

Also remember that if Japan attacked the USA it didn't mean that Germany would declare war on the USA. Many point to the treaty Germany and Japan had, but read Article III of the treaty carefully, it states if attacked not if they are the attacker.

Finally the USA tried to use diplomatic means, along with economic means to force Japan out of China. It seems that to many because the USA used 'pressure' it had to be to pressure Japan to attack the USA to get the USA into the war in Europe. People who think that really need to look over the facts some more.

Answer 3

At the time of Pearl Harbor the US was actively involved in sanctions against Japan.
The attack at Pearl Harbor was supposed to be the opening strike of a war but the Japanese embassy in Washington was slow with delivering the declaration.
The staff responsible were tried after the war for war crimes.

Answer 4

Pearl Harbor - Unprovoked Japanese Sneak Attack

Read a history book.

Answer 5

I saw the film. It's a piece of fiction. First of all, any two men who took commissions in the Royal Air Force then tried to gain the same in the Army Air Force would find themselves stripped of their American citizenship. Secondly, the credits misspelled the name of the Japanese carrier Akagi. They couldn't even get that straight!.
As for your other assertion we were the victim of the Pearl Harbor attack. Even the Japanese Naval aviators who participated in the attack expressed regret and shame when they came to find out that the attack had been carried out before Japan had delivered its formal declaration of war against us. That fact was given to me during the conversation noted below. The gentleman concerned was the officer who planned the attack when he served as Air Operations Officer in the Combined Northern Fleet under Admiral Yamamoto.

Answer 6

Never saw the movie. However, I can guess at the event it portrayed.

Hollywood at that time held the strange notion that it should support its country's war effort. Funny, huh?

Answer 7

Did you just wake up...the U.S. was blind sided for no reason at all..Japan wanted to control the world and still would if they were allowed a military....

Answer 8

well.....cause america actually was the victim. we didnt do nothing to the japs. they found it necessary to bomb us while we where unprepared and actually neutral in the current conflict.

Answer 9

DUH! Because America WAS the victim. Go read a history book.