The Bombing Of The United States

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his war speech and asserted December 7, 1941 as, “a date which will live in infamy.” The United States’ naval bases stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii were struck by Japanese planes intentionally and promptly. The news of this attack on the Pearl Harbor shocked the world. It was devastating to the nation that were still in the throes of depression. Witnesses of this event painted a portrait of a nation stunned, but determined to rise again. The United States’ government had not disclosed a Pearl Harbor story to the public--that the U.S. had failed to act on advance information about a planned Japanese attack. Japan 's move against the United States was audacious enough to be considered no more than a slight possibility, although the potential for an attack had been widely discussed.

“Everybody! We must evacuate the city! The Americans will attack the city soon. Leave all your belongings behind, the Organisation will take care of them. Follow the soldiers.”

According to the state department, the quick reaction force wasn’t ready. How can you not be ready when their are Americans in the middle east. The state department believed the pentagon couldn’t do anything to save the four

On the fateful day of May 13th 1985, the police decided to bomb the compound of the radical, motivated organization called MOVE. Leading up to the final confrontation, MOVE had been involved in many standoffs with the Philadelphia police and city government. Regardless of the complexity of the situation, there are no circumstances when dropping a bomb onto a residential neighborhood onto a house, full of men, women, and children, would be acceptable. The officials commanding the operation lacked a display of consideration for human lives, and also respect for the neighboring people and properties surrounding the MOVE compound. The MOVE bombing also epitomizes larger issues of both racial and class prejudices that are prevalent in American

The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy in 1942 was a very significant event. It paved the way for the United States of America to enter World War II. Along with that, a controversial decision was made shortly after; the issuing of Executive Order 9066. Due to increasing tensions towards the US citizens and the Japanese, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, authorized this order, and in turn, forced the internment of the Japanese. Even before this event, the Japanese and white citizens were already in a state of social turmoil, and it only made things worse when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Along with the Japanese, races such as, African and Latinos were also discriminated before World War 2 took place, but Japanese were impacted the most.

Only two months after the tragic Japanese bombing known as Pearl Harbor, U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the evacuation of all Japanese-Americans from the West Coast. This evacuation of over 127,000 people, many of them American citizens, resulted in the relocation of these people to one of ten internment camps across the country. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, rumors had begun to spread, fuelled by racial prejudice, about a plot by Japanese-Americans to sabotage war efforts, proving still loyal to Japan. Farmers on the West Coast desired to eliminate the Japanese competition, Americans generally experienced a public fear of sabotage, and politicians rallied against the Japanese to further

On March 30, 1981 John Hinckley Jr shot at the Then-President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, as he walked from the Washington Hilton Hotel to his limo. The President was hit in the armpit and two of his guards were also shot as well as his aide. President Reagan went into a 2-Hour surgery and survived the attempt on his life with a couple of scars. April 18, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, a man drove a truck into the US Embassy and detonated about 2,000 pounds of explosives. Instantly killing 63 people, including 13 American CIA operatives. Just a year before this brutal attack the military forces of the United States of America and some European nations stepped in to help the Lebanese government with the third part of their Civil War. The Lebanese Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad Organization expressed a strong dislike for the American and Israeli forces on the outskirts of Beirut. The Islamic Jihad Organization later claimed responsibility for the bombing. In the aftermath of the attack the Then-Secretary of State George Shultz tasked a team with making sure that the overseas embassies were safe. Their result was the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security and Diplomatic Security Service. On June 14, 1985 two gunman board a

But when the U.S. Army 's 1st Battalion / 2nd Brigade 82nd Airborne entered the town on April 23, 2003 and took up positions inside a local school house, Ba 'ath Party headquarters, and the Ba 'ath party resort just outside town , the presence of US forces in the city eroded some the goodwill between the two. Tensions came to a head on April 28th 2003 when an estimated several hundred residents broke the US installed curfew and marched towards the army bases in protest of them taking up position inside the schoolhouse. Soldiers opened fire on the protesters killing as many as 17 and wounding more than 70 of them US soldiers stated that they were returning fire but an independent investigation by human rights organization found no evidence US forces had come under fire on April 28th (Head, 107).

Since Carter saw that a diplomatic solution was not going to come soon, he decided that the only way to solve the situation was by force. He employed a secret operation known as Operation Eagle Claw. The plan was to land helicopters and planes outside of Tehran, and then they would make their way to the embassy to rescue the hostages. However, the mission was a complete failure; a dust storm caused a helicopter to crash into one of the planes, killing eight service members.

The proposal was to send eight America Helicopters to the embassy compound and capture/bring the hostages home. Two of the helicopters got caught in a dust storm flying from the USS Nimitz to a road acting as a airstrip in the Great Salt Desert and got disabled after the they traveled without radio communications. The next morning the remaining six helicopters met up at Desert One (Landing and refueling site) to which a third helicopter was marked unserviceable. As the helicopters were repositioning for refueling one of them ran into a C-130 Tanker Aircraft killing eight service men. In the end, this operation ended in failure, the death of eight service men, and no hostages rescued. On April 25, one of the helicopters that was going to be used to try to receive and bring home the hostages was moving to refuel when it crashed into a C-130 Tanker Aircraft as you can see the wing of in this photograph. Instead of saving lives, on this day America lost eight. The

September eleven 2001 two planes were highjacked and flown into the twin towers as a suicide mission. This was the first major terrorist attack on the United States. Terrorism has taken so many innocent lives. Its an issue we deal with on a daily basis. Because of this, President George Bush took extreme measures and was very successful on the global war on terror. He made multiple changes to laws and regulations to help keep American citizens safe. Despite the extreme measures former president George Bush took, the war on terror is not a winnable war.We can take pro cautions to terrorist attacks to a minimum in the United States but this war is something that is ever going to end.

ambassador that was injured in the bombing. She had been meeting outside with Joseph Kamotho, Kenya's trade minister. Their first thought from hearing the smaller blast was that it must be the noise from construction. Another victim, Linda Howard, witnessed the explosion around 10:40 A.M. She was on the fourth floor of the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and was in a meeting. Soon after she heard the small explosion, she suddenly realized that all of the windows were currently being blasted, the roof was caving in, and smoke seemed to appear from every direction. Before she had analyzed what was going on, she was being yelled at by Embassy guards to get down on the floor. After fifteen minutes of crawling around without being able to see, they had reached the ground floor. What Howard saw next terrified her. She saw lifeless bodies, fires everywhere, and the screams of terrified people. Bill Bar who is director of the U.S. Information Service in Kenya, was also at the same meeting as Linda Howard. He also recalls hearing a thump and thought it was possibly the sound of a grenade being thrown at the embassy. Some also recall hearing gunfire outside of the embassy before the big explosion.

Approximately an hour after the attack began, the terrorists left, having killed two Israeli team members and capturing nine. Due to the unanticipated chaos and struggle, the terrorists failed to locate eight other team members in the neighboring apartments. Within the next hour, the Arabs had issued a set of demands, and had thrown Weinberger's body into the street.

It demonstrated that these problems were not geographically confined and that the targets of the terrorist’s discontent can include innocent bystanders. The failed rescue, that resulted in the death of all the hostages, helped identify significant deficiencies in security tactics, techniques, and procedures used during hostage events and highlighted several specific issues in Germanys response force that ultimately lead to the death of the hostages due to miscommunication and lack of proper training in extreme

In 1998, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and the one in neighboring Tanzania were bombed. According to official Kenyan government figures, 213 people were killed in the blast that gutted the U.S. Embassy building in downtown Nairobi. That included 12 American workers and 34 of their Kenyan colleagues, called "foreign service nationals [FSNs]." More than 4,000 Kenyans were also injured in the explosion.