Attack on Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941.This date will always be graved in every American’s heart. This isn’t just a regular date, it’s a date that represents when many of our innocent soldiers were separated from their family.Many families were terrified of what happening to their soldiers. On that day Japanese warplanes attacked American ships and airfields in Pearl Harbor,Hawaii. The United States was under the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, which immediately decided to declared war on Japan. This was just the beginning of America's direct involvement in World War ll. There were at least three important reasons: Japan's plan for a new world order, US to expand its fleet of ships, and an oil embargo by the United States.

The main cause for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was that the United States stood

in the Japanese way of a creating a new world.Japan's leaders felt that the older system that was once controlled by the European countries and the United States was was now collapsing.¨ (Doc A).The Japanese didn’t quite like the way Americans were handling the issue.They felt the need to change it before everything gets demolished, so they took the matter in their own hand .“It would be replaced by a new system led by the Emperor of Japan, and it would "embrace the whole world." (Doc A). He is saying that there new rules would count on everyone in the world they won’t exclude anyone. They would try to help the other countries hoping they would get the same thing in the return. A map of the region shows that the new Japanese order was becoming a reality. Its actually working. ¨Japan occupied Manchuria in 1932 and attacked China in 1937. French Indochina followed in 1940.¨ (Doc B). Its taking over every country that it lay eyes on because they believe in greatness.

The second cause for the attack was the US decision in August 1941 to place an embargo

on oil shipments to Japan. ¨ln 1938, Japan announced a plan to create a new world order in Asia.¨(Doc C). When the japanese created this the US wasn’t quite pleased by this “new order” because it states that Japan would control all of the Asia.This angered the US and they stop trading aircraft parts with Japan.¨In the late 1930s Japan was receiving about 80% of its oil from the United States.¨(Doc D) Japan had little of its own resources and needed this oil to fuel its transport ships and keep its dream