attack on pearl harbor: the root event
On December 7, 1941, in the gray of the morning, Empire of Japan started air strike on the U.S navy and its base.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people will through their righteous might win through to absolute victory... With confidence in our armed forces-with the unbounded determination of our people-we will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God. I, therefore, ask that the Congress declare that since the dastardly and unprovoked attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941, speech asking Congress to declare war on Japan
"Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell."
--Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, spoken from his flagship Enterprise upon returning to Pearl Harbor and seeing the wreckage that included his scout aircraft. Halsey was renowned for his dislike of the Japanese.
Map showing positions of each vessels of U.S Pacific Fleet.
USS Oklahoma, Nevada, Maryland, California, Downs, many of those major battleships and destroyers sunk or got half damage at least. As a result of the strike, U.S navy lost their war potential at the pacific ocean.
According to this huge even in world history, Asia and the pacific ocean had started to get involved in the WWII and it'd become to a global scale war, not only Europe and North Africa.
USS Oklahoma, Nevada, Maryland, California, Downs, many of those major battleships and destroyers sunk or got half damage at least. As a result of the strike, U.S navy lost their war potential at the pacific ocean.
According to this huge even in world history, Asia and the pacific ocean had started to get involved in the WWII and it'd become to a global scale war, not only Europe and North Africa.
delay of declaring
At A.M 8:30 on Hawaii time, An Ambassador to U.S, Kichisaburo Nomura delivered an ultimatum that mentions about cloture of Japan-US textile negotiations. However the plan was to give it to U.S 30 minutes before the strike on the Pearl Harbor.
This happened because both of secretaries in the embassy took too much time for typing and translating the letter. As a result, the ultimatum was delivered to U.S government about one hour later than the attack, and this delay was used for U.S's propaganda that says "the attack on Pearl Harbor was cruel foul play".
This happened because both of secretaries in the embassy took too much time for typing and translating the letter. As a result, the ultimatum was delivered to U.S government about one hour later than the attack, and this delay was used for U.S's propaganda that says "the attack on Pearl Harbor was cruel foul play".
"A threatening [political] opposition was gathering over the head of this man [Roosevelt]. He guessed that the only salvation for him lay in diverting public attention from home to foreign policy... He was strengthened in this by the Jews around him... The full diabolical meanness of Jewry rallied around this man and he stretched out his hands. Thus began the increasing efforts of the American President to create conflicts... For years this man harbored one desire -- that a conflict should break out somewhere in the world... The fact that the Japanese Government, which has been negotiating for years with this man, has at last become tired of being mocked by him in such an unworthy way, fills us all, the German people, and all other decent people in the world, with deep satisfaction... As a consequence of the further extension of President Roosevelt's policy, which is aimed at unrestricted world domination and dictatorship, the U.S.A. together with England have not hesitated from using any means to dispute the rights of the German, Italian and Japanese nations to the basis of their natural existence ... in these historic times, the existence or non-existence of the nations, is being decided perhaps forever."
-- German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, referring to the Pearl Harbor attack in a Dec. 11, 1941 speech in the Reichstag