A War It was Always Going to Lose: Why Japan Attacked America in 1941doi:10.5893/19498489.09.02.13ZingheimKarlJingentaconnectGlobal War Studies
America's misunderstanding of Japan's political turmoil eventually led to war. Getty Images Unfortunately, things on the other side of the Pacific weren't much better. Not everyone was in agreement about entering into war with the United States, including the admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor...
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we are on the offense. In the jungles of New Guinea, in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, on the shores of New Britain, on the broad Pacific water, Japan faces the daily expanding power the nation she attacked. And in India, American, British and Chinese forces...
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on December 7, 1941, Japan launched their attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs and shot bullets onto the vessels below. There was a 1,800-pound bomb dropped onto the deck of the USS Arizona, which landed in her forward ammunition magazi...
Japan had other advantages. Unlike China, there was no strong tradition of peasant revolts in Japan. Most of what are described as revolts seem more like riots about purely local issues, ‘petitioning with violence’. The society was also far more integrated, since Japan had not been pumped...
sametime,Japan troopsattackedthe baseinthe Philippinesand hawaiipearlharbor. InthisattackAmericasufferedgreat losses,andthisurgedAmericato makethefinaldecision.Thatmeans Japanmustpaytheprice WHY •Toputanimmediateendtothewar •TheUSAwasfacingtheprospectof invadingJapantosubdueit •ToforceJapantosurrenderwit...