Territory of Hawaii

The attack on Pearl Harbor was on the 7th of December 1941. This was an unexpected military attack that was conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii. The short terms effects are the loss of naval bases, air forces and also is the amount of people that were killed during this attack. The long-term effect was how the Japanese got America involved due to this event that then led to World War II.

carriers were west of Hawaii on the evening of December 6th.” (Smiley, G., 1970) Japanese messages were intercepted and deciphered showing Japanese spies were asked to gather detailed information about the base at Pearl Harbor, but sadly this information was never given to the U.S. leaders to analyze. (Attack on Pearl Harbor, Why, 2016) On the evening of Dec 5th, 48 hours before the attack, both British and Dutch cryptanalysts said they had reports of Japanese carriers heading for Hawaii as early as November

sure as not thinking about their involvement in the war. Then December 7th rolled around and their lives were changed radically all within a matter of 2-3 hours. IT was an unannounced, brutal attack upon the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This unexpected attack radically changed America and the rest of the world. Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest tragedies ever to Americans. This horrible act committed by the Japanese was enough to send the United States, which was neutral at the

realized how awful the Jewish community was treated and decided to give the Jewish people a homeland to claim as their own. (History, Holocaust) December 7, 1941, The Japanese launched an air attack on the U.S. military base located at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After only two hours of bombing, 2,400 Americans were killed. The attack angered the U.S. so much that the following day they declared war on Japan, officially entering the United States into the Second World War. (Hickman,

fleet had grown to 160 vessels, with 6 of those being battleships. This aggressive approach to a bigger navy brought us from worst to third ranked world power, only behind Spain and Great Britain. During this same time, another influential territory was Hawaii. With American businessman being captivated by its lucrative sugar industry, we quickly made several trade agreements causing nearly all of Hawaii’s sugar production to be exported to the United States. The Spanish-American War was a war

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and the state song is “I Love You California. The state's nickname is The Golden State. California was sighted by Spanish navigator Jaun Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1952, its first Spanish mission was not established until 1769. California became a U.S. territory in 1847 when Mexico surrendered it to John C. Fremont. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold at

This included Hawaii, the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the Midway. In one sweep, they could secure desperately needed resources, discourage foreign interference and cripple America’s increasing military strength in the Pacific. Pearl

Americans did not want to happen. An article on Encyclopedia Britannica explains the Pearl Harbor attack. The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941. It was a surprise airborne attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that led to the entry of the United States into World War II. Japan’s invasion of China in 1937 and its occupation of French Indochina in July 1941 caused the United States to respond that same month by stopping Japanese assets in

pecking order between rivaling countries. The first major turning point in World War II was the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. On the morning of December 7th, 1941, the Japanese naval and air forces released bombs and open fire onto Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 2,403 people were killed, with 1,178 wounded. Every battleship in the harbor, of which there were nine, was destroyed, not counting ten other ships and countless planes. The next morning, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare