Friday, March 15, 2013

[2Jenna]

• we lost a total of 180 aircraft and 18 ships
• the Japanese also brought midget subs
• only 28 airplanes for the Japanese were sunk 8 subs
• the attack came in two waves
• the first wave came at 7:55
• there was 2,342 people that were killed
• the Japanese only lost 65 men
• conspiracy- was that American officials knew about the attack plan and went with it because FDR wanted to go to war
• Main Goal of Attack = to take out our aircrafts; but our crafts weren't there at the time
• Japanese had another attack planned but since our aircrafts weren't there they retreated
• 28 airplanes and 8 subs sunk of the Japanese people
• First wave of Japanese came in at 7:50 a.m.
• 2500 people died; over 1000 with casualties
• 18 American ships sunk and 300 airplanes
• Japanese Admirable of Attack = Nigumo; he was against it but he had to carry out his orders
• December 7, 1941
• We didn't accept their peace deal so we knew something would probably hapen in the near future
• To succeed Japan needed this to be a complete surprise so they could have no radio communication over the ocean

Pearl Harbor

In July, 1941, Japan invaded French Indochina

In response, the US stops trading with Japan

Due to embargo, Japan felt it had three options:

1.     abandon ambitions in South East Asia

2.     compromise with the US

3.     attack Dutch and British possessions in the Pacific and US bases in the Pacific

Yamamoto felt that if Japan had any chance of winning a war against the US it must destroy the US Pacific fleet in a surprise attack

A surprise attack would give Japan at least six months to dominate SE Asia unopposed

Japan thought that the US then would face a long, bloody struggle and would settle for a negotiated peace that would allow Japan to do as it pleased in Asia

Tojo replaces Konoye as Premier of Japan.  Konoye wanted to negotiate with the US. Tojo didn’t and had a low regard of the US

Tojo wanted war but Emperor Hirohito wanted on last peace attempt.

Japan offered this:

1. Open door policy everywhere and Japan would withdraw from  

 French Indochina

2. US would stop Lend-Lease Aid to China and start trading with Japan again

3. Japan would start peace talks with China

US refused plan on November 29^th

US took a hard line stance with Japan now because we had deciphered their diplomatic code(Magic) and knew that they had some type of attack plan. 

Magic Information

          “November 29^th is the deadline”

          “things are automatically going to happen”

Japan felt that the key to success in the Pacific was air and sea power

-especially launching airplanes from aircraft carriers and submarines attacking enemy ships

Japan had ten aircraft carriers to our three in the Pacific(based in Pearl Harbor)

Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack Plan

1.     destroy three aircraft carriers, eight battleships, seven cruisers and other small ships

2.     attack Wake Island and Guam

3.     attack Malay and Hong Kong

4.     attack Philippines, Dutch East Indies and Burma

Japanese attack force consisted of:

1.     Six aircraft carriers

2.     360 airplanes

-Kate High level bombers

-dive and torpedo bombers

-Zero fighters

3.     two battleships, three cruisers, eight destroyers

Admiral Nagumo commanded the force

To succeed, Japan had to travel 3,500 miles without being detected.  That meant absolute radio silence and travelling through a vast, lonely expanse of the Pacific Ocean.  This attack had to be a complete surprise.

“Backdoor to War” Conspiracy

my facts

• The Japanese forces were led by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
• He with the commander in chief of the Japanese first air fleet
• He lacked experience in war, but was a strong leader
• He was actually opposed to the plan to attack Pearl Harbor
• Nagumo and the First air fleet had an effective attack on Pearl Harbor, but was later criticized for not launching a third attack, because I could have destroyed the fuel and oil storage, which would have weakened the American naval base, the sabmarine base, and the intelligence station which were the main factors in Japan’s defeat.
• The invasion of Saipan began on June 15, 1944. Early on in this battle, the U.S. really overwhelmed the Japanese.
• This battle costed Japan about 500 aircrafts.
• Nagumo and his Army were left to defened the island of Saipan against the American assault.
• On July 6, during the end of the battle, Nagumo committed suicide by shooting his temple iwht a pistol.