Posted on 12/07/2019 12:18:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Some folks don’t really want to know what was going on behind closed doors. Democratic doors IIRC.
They wanted to build a defensive shield against the U.S. and thought it was necessary to cripple America’s Navy to do so.
Given a year and they would have probably done so but we recovered much sooner than they thought we would.
Because of the white racist patriarchy of the United States?
Japan, isolated from the rest of the world for much of its history, embarked on a period of aggressive expansion near the turn of the 20th century. Two successful wars, against China in 1894-95 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05, fueled these ambitions
The Japanese were conquest-mad ***holes. That's why.
Two sea battles (Coral Sea, Midway) destroyed all of their large carriers, and they didn't start to launch replacements until 1944. Loss of the former Dutch East Indies meant they didn't have sufficient fuel to keep their navy running, and the Pacific Ocean covers about half the Earth's surface. They had no reason to attack the US, and plenty of reasons NOT to.
This minimizes (which I guess is inevitable in a short synopsis) the terror bombing of Chinese cities.
When apologists for the Japanese whine about Hiroshima and Nagasaki they tend to minimize the years spent bombing Chinese cities to force the Chinese to surrender through killing their populace even though as many factories as possible had been relocated to concealed rural areas.
Don’t forget the rampant hostility at that time to LGBTs!
Should have made the third strike. Take out the oil and the dry docks. It would have pushed the fleet back to San Diego and Long Beach.
But missing the carriers made the Japs take their chips and leave the game.
It was a stupid move. The plan worked. They could have encountered acceptable losses in the third wave. It would have pushed the US back two years instead of six months.
Because after a decade of doing nothing about Japanese aggression in Manchuria and China, FDR didn't care about Asia.
Only after Germany attacked Russia did FDR move quickly to secure Stalin's flank by cutting off Japan's oil supply thereby forcing the Japanese to secure alternate supply from SE Asia.
The Japanese attack at Pearl was intended to prevent a significant American response for about a year.
Like anything there is no one reason. A lot of things played into Pearl Harbor. Without Pearl Harbor (that one single happenstance changed the world) history would have gone a completely different direction.
Well, thats not true either.
We had already sent the American Volunteer Group to Burma before Pearl Harbor and they were not so stupid as to not be cognizant that the flying tigers were the tip of the spear in American Plans to force Japan out of China.
The end of their Empire was coming either way.
Pearl Harbor slowed it down.
“The Japanese were conquest-mad ***holes. That’s why.”
BINGO. Pretty simple, isn’t it? Stupid soyboy leftwing historians always point out that we were “embargo meanies” but that wouldn’t stop the japs due to a power hungry emperor..
Because “there’s a gun behind every blade of grass”?
RE: Because “there’s a gun behind every blade of grass”?
That would be one reason NOT to invade.
Because the US built what was made to appear as an invading force in Manila in the months before Pearl Harbor.
The same day Pearl Harbor was attacked the Philippines were attacked
Our National Guardsmen there were the first prisoners taken and the last released.
Read .... “Bataan Uncensored” written by one of my family members
https://www.amazon.com/Bataan-Uncensored-Col-B-Miller/dp/0963164201
1. The aircraft carriers were not in Pearl Harbor. After Billy Mitchell we learned the weakness of battleships and the value of aircraft carriers.
2. The Japanese Embassy was burning papers for a week before the attack.
Interesting that it was a mere 6 months between Pearl Harbor and Midway
When Japanese bombers appeared in the skies over Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941...
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Minor point—It was actually the morning of December 8th (in Japan) and still December 7th in the United States.
RE: Because “there’s a gun behind every blade of grass”?
That would be one reason NOT to invade.”
...I’m talking Pearl Harbor instead of a land invasion. It was the fact that most Americans were armed that they didn’t invade by land.
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