Japan also attacked Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong; Philippines, Guam and Wake Island, all within the same seven hours. It is historically weak to just focus on a speculation about Pearl Harbor in isolation..
If you want to change the story and ask what if they didn’t attack any of those possessions, then we might not have had the War in the Pacific. But they did, and we did.
That’s basically a one-sentence summary of the article.
Exactly. We would be draw in quickly anyway.
Pearl Harbor was an attempt to limit the US naval power in the pacific.
It didn’t work
Interesting. If Japan got Malaya and the Dutch West Indies, they would have gotten much of the oil they wanted without having to fight the US. So why attack Hawaii and the Philippines?