Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
Everyone knows about the Pearl Harbor, but do people know why this happened? Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941, and on that date, Japanese planes attacked the American Naval Base in Hawaii. This attack was the consequence of a series of events which brought tension between America and Japan to boiling point. Isolation and mutuality was no longer an option in the minds of Americans who once were against involvement in the war. A day after the attack, President Franklin Roosevelt took action on December 8, 1941. This led to the United States fighting in the Pacific against Japan and in Europe against the Axis Powers. A lot of Americans consider that Pearl Harbor was one the darkest days in all American History, but what was the reason for this attack, Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
One of the main reasons why this happened was because Japan and the United States had a lot of opposing opinions on how they wanted to run the government, economic situation, and how to control the state. This became a really huge problem between this two countries, and it made a lot of conflicts. When the League of Nations was formed, Japan became one of the nations to join. The United States, on the other hand, did not join. It did not want to be involved with those conflicts that happened to other nations; they wanted to maintain the status quo. (Doc E.)Hideki Tojo, both Prime Minister and War Minister of Japan, responds to the United States’ actions. Tojo says, “How can we let the United States do as she pleases…” He also says that whenever he thinks about the strengthening of the United States, he sees no solution to their problems. According to what Tojo had to say, both the U.S. and Japan had two different views on how to handle government.
Japan had not been an ideal country in the eyes of the Americans for a while. It had been attacking Manchuria, part of present-day China.(Doc. C), we can tell that tensions build up throughout the years in Eastern Asia, and the U.S. makes a comprehensible action; beginning an embargo. This was a way of the United States