The tragic events that took place on December 7, 1941, is a story that is in American
             History books everywhere. It is the date of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese
             just before America entered World War II. In this paper, I will describe the events that
             eventually lead to Pearl Harbor, the attack itself, and the outcome of the attack.
             Before the attack, American Officials were becoming concerned about the rising power in
             the Far East. Because of this, the United States invited Great Britain, France, Japan and other
             nations to a conference in Washington, DC, that began on November of 1921, and ended
             February of 1922. In this meeting, each nation attending agreed to respect each other's rights
             with regard to the possessions in the Pacific Ocean. Also, they agreed to guarantee China's
             independence and territorial integrity. There were military agreements as well, each nation
             having a limit put on their Navy according to size. In a solution worked out, Japan could have
             three ships for every five American ships, and every five British ships. To Japan, this seemed
             they had the smaller Navy, and the walked away feeling slighted, but in reality, they had Naval
             supremacy. America and Britain had ships scattered around the world, but Japan had ships mainly
             in the Pacific, so even though it seemed like they had gotten the raw end of the deal, they actually
             With the crash of the Stock Market in 1929, the United States wanted to focus solely on
             their problems and how to fix them. With that, they became increasingly isolated from Japan, and
             with the Japanese invading Manchuro, and the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933, the US saw this as
             a crumbling world order, and wanted to take no part of it In 1936, the Japanese announced that
             they could no longer abide by the military agreements of 1922. It was somewhat obvious that
             Japan wanted to expand their empire, and wou...