lunes, 9 de febrero de 2009

Attack on Pearl Harbor


The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese on the United States' naval base in Pearl Harbor, which was in Hawaii.

It happened on December 7, 1941, which resulted in the United States taking part of World War II.

Japan did this because they wanted to destroy the U.S. fleet and keep them from meddling in attacks Japan had been planning. The consecuences of this action was the sinking of four United States battleships and the damaging of a few others. Japan destroyed many other things, but talking about people, 2042 were killed and 1282 were wounded. The attack consisted of two aerial attacks adding up to 353 japanese aircrafts.

This happened before an actual declaration of war, and so, it was meant to happen 30 minutes after Japan had declined a possible peace negotiation. It was successful in its objective. Japan claimed to have won a "great tactical victory" but to have lost the war because of that.

As a side note, the United States got its payback with the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Don't mess with the U.S...

4 comentarios:

  1. I know you like this movie, that's why you picked this one in the first place, right? ^^
    I like the phrase xD "Don't mess with the U.S." did you make it up? :)

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  2. Yes :) I cried with that movie it was so sad.
    And yes, I made it up :D

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  3. I think this is a very sad part of the American history because it happened so out of the bloom and it killed a lot of people in Hawaiin and it was really unexpected, it killed civilians, soldiers etc.
    Many people say that the war started with the this attack. And after that the U.S responded.
    To me I think both countries are the bad guys :
    1. first Japan for being alis with Germany.
    2. and then the U.S responded in a bad way by throwing bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still this attack has consequences because the bomb left residues that are still present and people get sick.

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  4. in my opinion, the way japan acted, its like kinda coward, like cheating. because if they were asking for peace and then they attacked, thats not correct :/

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