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Japan's Role In Bombing Pearl Harbor

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Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?Japan bombed Pearl Harbor for three reasons imperialism, fear, and revenge.Japan was a small nation but was a military country and wanted to prove themselves by bombing Pearl Harbor and taking over any more before bombing it. Imperialism played a role in the bombing because japan wanted to extend their power to other countries and be known more than just Japan a small nation. Japan started taking over countries like Manchuria and took over East asia so that they could have sources Manchuria was the puppet state for Japan and East of asia was their paddy field (resting place). They wanted to bigger and larger than everyone else around the world. Japan needed more oil for ships and the East indies had a lot …show more content…

Japan was going off the rails by taking over the different countries and trying to make a mark as being the new order of the world. They took Manchuria, East Asia, tried to take the Philippines and then started having fear of the fleet ships tripling their size and being moved to Pearl Harbor. U.S. had but a embargo on Japan because of their actions and this gave Japan a indignant feeling also the U.S. had freezed all of Japan's assets and bank accounts in the U.S. so with that happening Japan had told the U.S. to unfreeze their bank accounts and assets are they would attack them. The U.S. laughed and didn’t believe them until it had finally happened which shocked the U.S. government and which they waged war upon Japan. These three reasons shows why Japan had bombed the Pearl Harbor. They wanted power so by bombing something that was apart of a greater nation would make them feel like they have power and thought it would make others fear them. They had more fear about the fleet ships tripling sizes and them being put in the Pearl Harbor so Japan thought they were going to try to fight against them for what they were doing. They were angry at the U.S. because of when they had froze everything and when they had did a embargo on them so that led them to something unthinkable that no one else would have dared to

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