ummm, april fools?
The Attack on Pearl Harbor...
DECEMBER 7 1941
attack because of the whole japan in indochina issue..
bunch of medals of honors rewarded..
originally going to be three little attack things instead of two..
wayyyyy lucky for us because like, we basically would have died if that actually hit the good big aircraft carrier ship things..
shallow harbor.. hard to drop torpedos.. buoyant with wood we went over this yesterday blah blah blah...
the first wave wanted to hit airfields and battle ships.. second one at shipyeard.. forgot to damage the shoreside facilities.. onca again lucky for us because these facilities were a big role in the allied victory in wwii..
japan didnt lose nearly as much as we did.
they intercepted a radio message and they knew that the japanese were planning an attack..
they thought it was going to be an attack on the phillipenes..
they thought that there were b17s coming in from the west
the ship the arizona blew up.. in a big way.
there were many reasons why we thought that they could not pull it off. the shallow water.. the distance.. the racist beliefs..
because of the embargo japan felt that they had three options: abandon ambitions in south east asia, compromise with the us, attatch dutch and british possesions in the pacific and us bases in the pacific
"backdoor to war" conspiracy..we started to get wayy harsh on japan... left it so they only had the option to attack so we basically asked for it.
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