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Question #160766

Explain motives behind Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.


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2021-02-08T11:47:17-0500

Why Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor

Summary

 The attack was brought about by American’s resistance to the Japanese quest for territorial expansion into China you solve demographic and economic issues (Polmar, 2017). The Japanese also launched the ambush attack on Pearl Harbor to conquer the Philippines, Malaya, and Dutch East Indies to have control over natural resources like oil and rubber.

Explanation

For many past decades, Japan and the United States had been in a constant confrontation that would potentially culminate in a war (Town, 2020). Japan became very aggressive and wanted to forcefully expand its territory into China to solve some demographic issues and also take over the control of the Chinese import market. Japan consequently declared war on China, a move that the U.S and the Dutch were against. The latter therefore responded by 9impossing trade embargoes and economic sanctions on Japan (Town, 2020). Being that Japan imported 90% of its oil from u. s and Dutch East Indies, it was significantly affected by the sanctions and its army was on the verge of collapsing (Polmar, 2017). To counter the trade restrictions, Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor to conquer Dutch which was the major producer of oil and rubber as the United States of America still recovered slowly from the attack (Polmar, 2017). The Pearl Harbor attack dragged the U.S into world war two which culminated after the launch of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

 

Reference

Polmar, N. (2017). Direct from Gender primary-source evidence from Gender bearing on Parshall-Bennett exchange regarding Fuchida at Pearl Harbor. Naval War College Review70(3).

Town, C. (2020). Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Applying Lessons of the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Failures to the Modern Information Sharing Environment (Doctoral dissertation, AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY).


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