Attack on Pearl Harbor
"A day that will live in infamy," was what President Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. Although World War II had been going on for quite some time, the U.S. had never wanted to become involved. They signed various peace treaties, such as the Neutrality Acts which stated that the U.S. would not help either side in the war. Although the U.S. was staying neutral, they had done many things to help the allied powers and diminish the possible communist takeover being sought by the axis powers. The three communist leaders were Benitto Mussolini, dictator of Italy, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, and Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union. The three leaders believed that Fascism was the best type of government (Richardson). They ruled over their people with terror. Hitler took it to the extreme and created Nazism, which gave him control over everything in his country. The U.S. knew that Fascism and Nazism were not the right way to run a country, but they did not want to have to enter the war unless it was completely necessary. Then on December 7, 1941, Japanese B-17 fighter planes attack the U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu (Divine). On the morning of December 7, 1941, two so
ldiers gave news to their commanding officer that their were B-17's coming to the mainland (Nixon). The officer ignored the message because he was expecting a friendly squadron of B-17's that afternoon, but thirty minutes later, the first bomb was dropped (Nixon). The Japanese sent 350 B-17 bombers on six aircraft carriers (Nixon). The reason for using B-17's was because their primary objective was to destroy as many ships as possible. During the attack, eight American battleships and 13 other naval vessels were sunk or badly damaged, almost 200 American aircraft were destroyed, and approximately 3000 naval and military personnel were killed or wounded (Nixon). The day after the attack, December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt declared war on the Japan. Three days later, Italy and Germany declared war on the United States (Nixon). Two significant changes that resulted from the bombing of Pearl Harbor were U.S. involvement in World War II, and the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. The introduction of the United States into the war was a direct result of the strategic bombing of Pearl Harbor enacted upon the U.S. Naval base in Hawaii by the Japanese empire. Without the U.S. involvement in World War II, the allies would have probably lost. President Roosevelt declared our war upon Japan on
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