The Attack on Pearl Harbor :: World War II WWII WW2

The Nipponese planned a surprise approach shot on Pearl Harbor and struck at 755 A.M. on December 7th, 1941. This glide slope led to President Franklin Roosevelt asking Congress for a Declaration of struggle. This was the event that led to the join States entering World War II.The United States was mad at Japan for invading Manchuria in 1931. We were maladjusted ab bulge out the Japanese military. That is why President Roosevelt moved our Pacific hap to Pearl Harbor. After many months of talking, the Japanese broke off negotiations with the United States on December 6, 1941. We had made an offer to them and they never replied to the offer. The U.S. knew that the Japanese were believably going to endeavour us soon. We didnt know where the attack would be. approximately military officers thought it would be in the South Pacific. They were partly remunerate and wrong. Nobody really thought the Japanese would attack our pass off at Pearl Harbor in the east even tho ugh we knew it was workable for an aircraft carrier attack to hit there.The Japanese secretly sent a large naval fleet toward Pearl Harbor. It was the largest fleet of its type in history. The purpose of the mission was to wipe out the U.S. Pacific Fleet so the Japanese could continue to take control of the South Pacific area. Our fleet was the only real threat to their military plan.When the Japanese planes left the aircraft carriers to attack Pearl Harbor they were detected by our radar operators. The radar operators pretended they were either a large group of birds or some U.S. planes out on a training mission. The first attack by the Japanese started at 755 am. Our ships were lined up next to distri saveively other. This made them easy targets for the Japanese pilots. In just a soon period of time, five of our eight destroyers were sunk and the rest badly damaged. A second wave of Japanese planes also attacked Pearl Harbor. They continued to attack our ships and al so attacked our airfields. One type of ship they didnt sink was our aircraft carriers. They looked for them but never found them. They were out doing some training missions. The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor destroyed 188 airplanes.