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Dustin Patterson
February 21, 2016
Period 4
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest tragedies to Americans committed by
the japanese. The pearl harbor attack that japan committed affected the United States enough to
send us into World War II, even though we were a neutral state at this point in time, and greatly
affected America's relationship with japan at this time.
Before Japan had attacked the united states, the U.S. was a neutral state and was trying to
stay out of the war. Within a matter of hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor, America immediately
wanted to declare war on japan. American attitudes about the war changed increasingly and so
did American attitudes
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The japanese were in a bad
situation at this point in time and was not making any new allies. The Japanese had began to get
a lot of interest in southeast Asia, especially in French Indochina. This made America and Japan
get mad at eachother because America was allied with both so the U.S. didn't want them to fight
and have to get in the middle of it. The goal for the Japanese attack on pearl harbor was pretty
simple. Japan didn’t want to take over the U.S. or force everyone in Hawaii to leave. The united
states were too much of a threat with all of their newly acquired territories in Guam, American
Samoa, and other small islands. Japan was very vulnerable to a naval attack by America and
would surely lose with how strong America's navy was. Luckily for America Japan had no
chance against them so America went ahead and showed japan that they shouldn't have attacked
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pearl harbor and ever since then japan to this day has not even thought of attacking the U.S.
After world war II the victorious allies decided that japan should be under international
control. U.S. General Douglas Macarthur was the commander voted to help
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This alliance is good even though after the
attack at pearl harbor everything went downhill, it all came back up. Both nations trust
each other again and are no longer fighting. And even though japan made the U.S. come into
World War II, i think that it was worth it because the nations wouldn't be so strongly acquainted
if it wasn't for that war japan started.
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World War II, along with its numerous battles, brought great tension between two of the strongest countries during the 1940s: the United States and Japan. Conflict between these two countries started with Japan’s push past Chinese borders into Manchuria in search of the natural resources Japan lacks. At first, the United States avoided military action with Japan by waging economic warfare on them. This economic pressure included the passing of the Neutrality Act, which prohibited the sale of weapons to nations at war (Nash 513). Additionally, the United States placed oil embargoes on Japan hoping it would force Japan to shut down military operations in China. Japan, at a critical decision point, decided to bomb the American naval base