did anything change because of pearl harbor?

Question

i am doing a book report and i need to know if anything has changed because of the attacks on Pearl Habor. for example....they have put more lifeboats on ships because of the titanic.....stuff like that.

Answer 1

War.
The US Navy abandoned battleships as the primary fighting platform.
Japanese-Americans became possible insurgents the way Arabic-Americans have after 9-11.

Answer 2

A lot of things changed. One thing for the military was a change in tactics. Half the US Navy battlefleet had been put out of action (8 out of 15). During December the US military only had a handful of capital ships to protect US interests in the Pacific. The carriers Enterprise, Lexington and Saratoga and the battleship Colorado against the Japanese who had six heavy carriers, and ten battleships.

As a result the navy was pretty much forced to rely on the carriers for defense of the Pacific. The battle of Coral Sea would prove to be the first battle where the carrier would truly establish itself as queen of the sea. Midway followed a few months later and the carrier firmly established itself as the dominate ship in a navy.

Answer 3

Yes a lot of things changed yet everything is the same. men died, children weren't born. one may have been the inventor of a cure for cancer. another the person who discovered an energy source or process that would have solved the crises that we have today which is pushing us into economic failier. When the price of fuel goes up it is reflected in the cost of every thing that we buy. "If any question why we died, tell them: Because our fathers lied!" ( R. Kipling on WW I) good things came about also. there were many new medical procedures that were developed in the battle field hospitals. The question is: did the good outweigh the bad? but we are told in Matthew 24:6 "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." the worst thing that has happened since WW II is that we have taken God out of our schools. I'm not talking about the god that the churchs teach, but the God of the Bible.

Answer 4

The main change was that the US went from being a neutral country not interested in world affairs, to become the leader of the world. The US was the main arms supplier for the Western alliance, and filled the vacuum left by the collapse of the British Empire. The US dictated the course of the war for the West (primary focus on defeating Nazi Germany; secondarily on defeating Imperialst Japan).

The atomic weapons program went from being theoretical research to a full-blown military program.

The navy went from being battleship oriented to aircraft carrier (and air power in general) oriented.

Answer 5

As a child, I remember the rationing! Sugar, rubber, gas, and womens' hose! Other things, I'm sure. The young men all prepared to be drafted after 18. Or are you talking about LASTING CHANGES? If so, I think a suspicion of foreigners--certainly of Asian decent. Hundreds of thousands of Asian-decent Americans had their property confiscated on the West coast and interred in concentration camps in Utah and Nevada for YEARS! But things have changed since the defeat of the Japanese. I can't think of any LASTING change! The American security system is definitely BETTER, with world-wide surveilance. Such surprise is almost impossible anymore!

Answer 6

So the whole US involvement in the Second World War was nothing?

If you are thinking of a long term effect on some aspect of military procedure I really can't think of anything. Maybe learning to trust that new thing called RADAR . . .

Oops, thanks thorfinn_skullsplitter, I forgot about the battleship thing.

Because of losses at Pearl Harbor the US Navy was forced to rely on aircraft carriers as their main strike weapon. In one day, decades of belief in the ultimate power of the battleship vanished and navies all over the world where suddenly thrust into the naval aviation age.

Answer 7

Pearl Harbour saw the death of battle ship warfare. The loss of individual battle ships of British and German origin had signaled the sence in carrier warfare, but Pearl Harbour rammed it home. After this, any task force without at least one carrier could not be taken seriously.

Luck

Answer 8

There were many changes to our nation ; the Japanese attack galvanized the country in it,s resolve to go to war .
One of the technical advances in ammunition was shells that would detonate near an aircraft or before it struck the ground .
These were referred to as Proximity Fused Ordinance - they were often referred to by the servicemen as " Buck Roger " shells being named after an eponymous comic strip character of the same name .
Gen.George S. Patton thought highly of this new ordinance for an air-burst from one of these proximity shells would result in more enemy casualties and in downed aircraft .
These proximity shells would utilise either a magnetic or radar device as a trigger mechanism to detonation .
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