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States. Pearl Harbor is an inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, about 6 miles
west of Honolulu, and the site of one of the principal naval bases of the United
States. The government first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to
maintain a repair and coaling station for ships here in 1887. The harbor was
surveyed then and later, but improvements were not begun until after the United
States annexed the Hawaiian Islands in 1898. In 1911 the work of digging a wide
channel form the sea across the sandbar and coral reef at the mouth of the
harbor was completed. The channel is about 35 feet deep and the harbor has a
maximum depth of about 60 ft, making the harbor available to the largest naval
vessels. (Encarta Encyclopedia, 1994, software)
The Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was the
climax of a decade of rising tension between Japan and the United States.
Throughout the 1930s, Japan had been steadily encroaching on China, and the
United States had been trying to contain Japan’s expansion. This period of
growth is known as imperialism. Since America supplied more than half of
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were given the command to strike by Commander Mitsuo. )
Soon after the attack United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “December 7th” Speech stirred many people and boosted
Americans to buy American products work in factories and many men and
women joined the United States military branches. [See Chart] The attack marked the entrance of Japan into World War
II on the side of Germany and Italy and of the United States on the Allied side. (More detail) The United States
dealt the final and most destructive blow to the Allied forces on August 6th and
9th of 1945. At 6:00 AM, the first
wave of the Japanese attack takes off for Hawaii from ships anchored north of
the islands.
Around the edges in these open windows came the heat and the sensation of
the blast.
(Source unknown) In order to accomplish this, Japan joined the Triple Alliance
with Italy and Germany (communist countries) and began to expand into
northern Indochina.
The aftermath
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese infuriated Americans and an
enormous feeling of patriotism swept through the country.
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