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happened on the day Pearl Harbor was bombed? There were many events the led up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The attack had many different results after the bombing occurred as well. The bombing of Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor to cripple the Pacific Fleet. Pearl Harbor is a harbor belonging to Oahu, an island west of Honolulu. The Japanese and the United States were negotiating for months before the events at Pearl Harbor occurred. The two…

Germany and Japan; each a powerful adversary that that had distinctive advantages over us. Japan which had a well-trained functioning navy as opposed to the United States navy which was had suffered massive losses after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. To counteract the Japanese navy the untied states began the Manhattan project, which created weapons that caused mass amounts of damage and killed 129,000 soldiers and citizens, and 80,000 were killed instantly. However, the numbers reported…

Pearl Harbor, a day that will live in infamy. Some remember pearl harbor as an attack by Japan on a U.S. naval base stationed in Hawaii that cost 2,403 American lives during world war II. Unfortunately, some only remember it as the movie Pearl Harbor directed by Michael Bay and starring Ben Affleck & Katie Beckinsale Pearl Harbor was released on May 25, 2001, through Touch stone pictures. The movie Pearl Harbor is at many times shamed due to its lack of historical accuracy which seems to be…

Collision between the U.S. Navy Submarine USS Greeneville and Japanese Motor Vessel Ehime Maru near Oahu, Hawaii February 9, 2001 Abstract: On February 9, 2001, a USS Greeneville war submarine surfaced underneath a fishing and training vessel “Ehime Maru” and training vessel “Ehime Maru” collided with submarine USS Greeneville had 106 crew members, 16 civilian visitors. The collision caused Ehime Maru ship to sink resulting in 9 fatalities. USS Greeneville surfaced right under Ehime Maru…

part of Japan's defeat. The United States declared war on Imperialistic Japan which became the main focus heading into 1942. December 7, 1941 Americans was in shock. Japan has surprise attack was unexpected, bombing the United States base at Pearl Harbor destroying military forces, equipment, and killing thousands. At the time president Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office and the U.S. was forced to take action. Midway was the Japanese next target. Japanese goal for Midway was for the expansion…

Hook. Japanese Canadian internment occurred in British Columbia and was a result of pent up racism which was triggered after an attack known as Pearl Harbor in 1941. By 1942, Prime Minister Mackenzie King passed a bill to expel anyone of Japanese descent to protective areas and to Hastings Park, the British Columbia Security Commission transferred 2 500 people forcibly, in the span of 10 days. After arriving at Hastings Park they were relocated to abandoned towns in central British Columbia…

because it changes the American economic and it makes the greatest good economic in the United States. To fight or help the war, United State has to make a lot of supply like gun, bomb, airplane, factory, and assemble line for Europe. When the Pearl Harbor attacks by Japan, it forces the United States to fight the war. This war is dramatically change the discrimination between race and color. In this War, not only men will fight for their country but also women were taking responsibility and…

The day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, the Japanese began invading Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Within a month, Manila was captured and the U.S. - Filipino Army quickly started to run out of necessary supplies needed for survival. People who are educated enough to know what the Japanese did back in the 1940’s have the mindset of them being cruel and vicious people. However, the Japanese are not as violent and brutal as they were in the Philippine Bataan Death…

Bald Eagle Times #58 Music in WWII To the faithful readers of the Bald Eagles Times: In contrast to the other recently published articles, this is not your typical war story. In fact, it is not even directly related to the war. It is actually a story of the evolution of music leading up to and even throughout the war. Music, it is safe to say, is what kept the nation together. It gave us a fallback which we could all enjoy, regardless of our situation in life, race, or economical status. In…

The United States had gotten some warning sings even before the Pearl Harbor attack. The first warning sing was that since the U.S. was already able to break the Japanese diplomatic code, they got news that Japan was going to attack, the only problem was that the message sent to Washington D.C. got there too late. The second warning sing was a sing before the attack, a radar picked up Japanese planes, but the people who picked up the signal thought that the plane on the radar was American B-17s…