How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor

The U.S. imposes trade sanctions, followed by an embargo,targeting the Japan's military aggression in Asia.These actions by the Japanese and the Americans led up to the attack and the later nuclear bombing in 1945. This situation started when Japan were trying to make their empire stronger when they try to take over some part of china. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a bombing on the American by the Japanese on Dec.7,1941.The Japanese bombed the Americans,because the americans was given supplies to the allies .Japan was the only one not getting anything from the americans and they were upset.Pearl Harbor later led up to World War II.Also FDR had place an embargo act on the oil and other goods and supplies.

The Embargo Act was for the Japanese to stop importing goods from Japan.. President Roosevelt ordered all Japan assets frozen. But FDR did not want to cut off oil. As he told his Cabinet on July 18, an embargo meant war, for that would force oil-starved Japan to seize the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies.

This is a picture of the map that Japan had made when they had attack pearl harbor. They marked off on the ships/boats that had sinked to know what ships were still up. Fuchida Mitsuo was the pilot who led the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

In February 1942, Roosevelt signed United States Executive Order 9066, requiring all Japanese Americans to submit themselves for internment.After the attack on Pearl Harbor it drove americans to enter in World War II.The industrial and manpower might of the USA was able to eventually overwhelm Japan and win WW2 against them through the use of overwhelming force. The resources of the USA also became available to help win WW2 against Germany in Europe.Years before the attack,Japan was over population and they were trying to get rid of some of their citizens by sending people to other countries like the US and Europe and etc.After the United States stop accepting Japanese people.

The attack caught American military personnel by surprise and was certainly costly, but it did not cripple the U.S. Navy as the Japanese had anticipated. By a stroke of luck, the three American aircraft carriers stationed at Pearl Harbor were not there on the morning of December 7th. The USS Lexington, the USS Enterprise, and the USS Saratoga had been sent on missions during the days before. Aircraft carriers are larger and more difficult to build than other ships, and their survival would prove vital during the Pacific War.On December 8th, President Roosevelt gave a speech in which he famously called the attack on Pearl Harbor “a date which will live in infamy”. While Congress quickly passed a declaration of war on Japan. Which also led to the nuclear bombing on Japan.People later suffered radiation cancers and poisonous injuries from the bombing.  

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