In 1887 the U.S government first got exclusive use of the inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii; a principal naval base of the Unites States, for repairs and a coaling station for ships.

On November 26, 1941 Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's fleet assembled in Tankan Bay and in the Kurile Islands and left, in secrecy, for Hawaii. On December 7, the fleet of six heavy aircraft carriers and 24 supporting vessels arrived, and the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was attacked. The six carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes made up of torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers, and fighters. The Japanese planes also attacked military and naval airfields which were nearby. When the attack ended 2 hours later, a lot of damage was done, eight American battleships and ten ot

If the United States and President Roosevelt had paid closer attention and not ignored warnings, and kept things in secret, I feel that the bombing of Pearl Harbor could have been avoided. Even if the war itself was not completely avoided the amount of distruction could have been kept to a minimum. The Unites States could definitely been more prepared for the attack if Roosevelt had not been so sneaky about the whole situation.

Some people, however, feel that the war between the United States and Japan was inevitable. Many things led up to the war, beginning on July 8, 1853 when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his black-hulled steam frigate Susquehanna into Edo Bay and "opened" Japan at gun point, after more than two centuries of isolation to American merchants and missionaries. The Japanese were humiliated and decided to hire French officers to retrain their solders and British shipbuilders to create their navy. Many people feel that this was then the war became inevitable. In 1922 the Supreme Court ruled that Japanese immigrants were unable to become United States citizens. Then in 1923 it ruled that they could be barred from owning American land. When Roosevelt put an embargo on all trade of oil, steel, machinery and other goods to Japan he caused many problems fo

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