Pearl Harbour

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, bringing the United States into WWII. In a very short time the Japanese destroyed the U.S. fleet Pearl Harbour base. Eighteen months earlier, President Roosevelt had moved the U.S army to Pearl Harbour as a approach to stop the Japanese aggression. During the mid-1937's the Japanese had started a war against China, causing Japan to have little oil and raw materials. In July 1942, Japan and the Western Powers stopped trading, making Japan in desperate need of oil and minerals. 2400 Americans were dead and much of the American air force base around the world was eliminated.

With Japan's attack on the American Pearl Harbour base it caused a great alliance among the American people. I believe that the Japanese had to make a strong attack on the Americans because they were stuck with nothing and had to fight for their country.