![]() On the quiet Sunday morning of 7 December 1941. The oil embargo placed on Japan by the US threatened Japan's expansion plan for its empire, so while they made diplomatic efforts to get the embargo lifted (on terms to still be allowed to take over desired territories), they prepared for war. Coast Guard and the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. They viewed Europe's power through their massive empires, and they emulated by invading and conquering other Asian countries. Japan dispatched all six of his precious fleet carriers across 3,000 miles of open ocean in total secrecy, with the fleet arriving a few hundred miles north of. It was also a piece of skilled military planning, the work of Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto. It was part of a first wave of nearly 200 aircraft, including torpedo planes, bombers, and fighters. Pearl Harbor was a great gamble for Japan, and especially for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Because of its very limited resources, Japan realized it needed natural resources to industrialize and compete with the West. The first Japanese dive-bomber appeared over Pearl Harbor at 7:55 am (local time). With the arrival of Perry, Japan realized they were behind the Western world (Europe and America), and from the start of the Meiji (Enlightenment) Era in 1868, Japan began sending people to Europe and America to learn everything they could in order to catch up with the West. Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ![]() Perry demanded Japan to open to trade with the West. President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. Today, it remains an active military base but it is also a collection of four historical sites. ![]() Perry arrived on Japan's shore in 1853, Japan had been a mostly closed country for the previous 250 years, strictly regulating interactions and trade with foreigners. Pearl Harbor is the location of the surprise attack on the United States by Japan on December 7, 1941. Japan was fully aware of America's power. ![]()
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