Pearl Harbor’S Influence On World War Ii

Pearl Harbor’s influence on World War II

This important investigation aims to answer the following question. How does the attack on Pearl Harbor influence that the United States was integrated into the enigmatic event such as the Second World War to the point of writing down as an event that marked footprint in thesame?

The study will be carried out through the analysis of the agents who participated during the atrocious attack on the United States military base (Pearl Harbor), so that this State was part of the great fight known as World War II, so thatIt has managed to proclaim itself as an event that defined the course of this explosive war and that has also created a moment of pain and loss that has affected the life of the population and the future of the country itself.

Sources will be used that will support the argument, so that they will be indispensable for the information to be adequate and completely collected, there are different types of sources such as primary and secondary stores, which are essential in good investigation, betweenThese sources can be found PDF’s, electronic documents, documentaries, among others.

On this occasion, more redundancy will be taken to two important sources, which will be analyzed below:

• Source 1: Documentary

This source is a documentary production that corresponds to a secondary source, in which it details the events presented during World War I emphasize the continuous rivalry between two important powers such as the United States and Japan without leaving behind the great consequences of this bombof time, in addition to clearly indicating the attack on Pearl Harbor that drives the United States to be part of a battle with such magnitude;Also, it is possible to appreciate video tapes captured at those moments that evidence what happened.

This source is a means of great relevance since it brings to light the most important data detailing them to a point of understanding, taking into account the slightest to the slightest ones, but it is important to emphasize that even the smallest detail is a piecefundamental to assemble this difficult puzzles.

• Source 2: Dale, J. (December 7, 2016). THE VANGUARD.

The number 2 source to analyze is a web page corresponding to a secondary source, whose purpose is to make known the situations and implications that were the causes that promoted Japan to attack Pearl Harbor and reach the high point of an imminentconfrontation, integrating the consequences of such attack, such as the numerous losses both material and human.

This is a means of great value and utility since it seeks to clarify in addition to explaining these circumstances circumstances. It also teaches some of the annexes that were captured at that time, visually demonstrating the veracity of them.

Developing

The United States has become the most important power in the world and over time it has reached innumerable achievements, however, in the past it was white of enough casualtmake grow.

The world conflicts that occurred between great powers in search of power have led to most of the world to fight on a battlefield, thus giving rise to two important world events such as the first and Second World War, since these clashesThey began, the United States has tried to stay out of avoiding having some participation in struggles of great intensity and magnitude, however, an exception would be marked in two of the most important battles of all time.

The country was part of World War I time later that it began, after the State Congress gave its approval in the year of 1917, subsequently finished the First World War, they planned to stay again away from such facts, betweenThese World War II, however, a particular event would exchange its plans, this was, the attack on an American military base in Hawaii very important known as Pearl Harbor.

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the presidency of the United States of America, the country has remained in a state of isolation, that is, it has remained away from the different political situations outside its territory. But Japan made threatening military movements that were mainly based on violence, including Japan attacked and took important territories of China and planned to seize the Dutch Eastern Indies for their oil spaces, a situation that promoted the United States to take action.

Initially the United States and Japan had an adequate relationship in which a confrontation between them was not planned, but the ambition of the Japanese state changed everything.

Japan began to expand brutally conquering strategic territories that would help them increase their power, however, the United States tried to stop it, opting to give rise to the oil embargo, something that would flatly affect the country and stop their military activities since Japan depended mostly on theThe United States oil, not happy with this, Japanese delegations went to Washington to negotiate about this reform;In order to end the problems, they reached an agreement through the Hull note, where they considered applying a series of conditions to Japan.

"The agreement led Japan to retire from Indochina, to reduce its military presence in the Asian continent and open the door to Tokyo left the triple axis" (Dale, 2016)

After a short time, this treaty breaks, since the fact that the United States imposed that reform, caused a resentment that led them to wish to expand and master what was necessary in order not to depend more about what would now bebecoming his worst enemy.

At that time, the world was going through a colossal economic crisis known as the crack of 29, which caused both Japan and other European countriesTo others, so Japan decided to meet its sole objective, to become the most powerful and large power of the world, however, it considered the United States as an obstacle to achieve it, so they devised a plan to disappear it.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Pearl Harbor military base was calm so that military activity was void, on the other hand, Japan that was under the command of a talented Japanese military strategist, Isoroku Yamamoto, wasprepared to surprise the American base surprisingly.

At 7:55 am, the tranquility of Pearl Harbor was interrupted after it was attacked by the Japanese who bombarded each space of the place in order to end everything that was in its path, making two consecutive attacks initially in theLarge naval fleets and a series of military planes that were located aligned, an easy target to destroy by the Japanese, also with the innumerable victims who were trapped in a pump of suffering and anguish.

The Japanese took the opportunity in which Pearl Harbor was unsuspecting, without any way of defending himself, they only fell to that brutal surprise attack.

At 103, James Downing, one of the soldiers who was present during the attack and survived, tells about the devastation suffered that day that day.

‘The first Japanese plane I saw was flying low and slow when he spent near me and downloaded his artillery. But fortunately it did not impact me because he did not shoot at the right angle ’. In

Once having devastated the important military base of the United States, Japan retired with his great victory in hands, leaving behind great losses, among which were 5 important warships destroyed, 188 ravaged airplanes, and thousands of soldiers who lostLife and other thousands that were injured. Something that the Japanese never took into account, was that 3 of the most powerful American warsTo Japan with what they had.

After such a tragic event, on December 8 of the same year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt prepares a conference in the National Congress, the discourse of infamy, in which he declares the imminent war to Japan, since after such an event, the country could not stay with a crossed arms, in this way, Roosevelt received the supportof the Congress and all the people who were bathed in pain and fury.

"Yesterday," said Roosevelt, "December seven, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly attacked by naval and aerial forces of the Empire of Japan" (Dale, 1941).

After such a statement, Japan did not stop, then, they had already taken important strategic areas such as parts of China, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, once finished with its destructive objective in Pearl Harbor continued in search of the Philippines capital. American soldiers with their Filipino allies fought to avoid it, however, the power of the Japanese was quite imposing, thus taking the capital on April 9, 1942, thus becoming a loss more for the other side.

Japan looked an invincible force, everyone thought it was untouchable, however, after having gone through so many defeats in the Pacific, the United States idea a plan to strongly counterattack Tokyo, subsequently bombarded much of its territory, this movement was under guideof the famous military admiral James H. Doolittle, leaving Japanese invincibility for the soils, but with many lives of lost American soldiers.

"The Japanese began the war and we are going to end it" (Box, 1942)

The two countries were found in subsequent clashes that resulted.

With victories reached, the United States took advantage of Japan until it reached the final end that would become part of history when in the year of 1945, after large struggles and Harry S. Truman as the new president of the United States, for the first time they used a large atomic bomb on two important areas of Japan such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending this hard confrontation.

At present, thousands of families suffer after having lost soldiers who died in the strong attack on Pearl Harbor, remember the immense pain and the tragedy through which they passed during the attack that caused the United States of America to integrate into theWorld War II, but has reached victory demonstrating that those fallen soldiers did not die in vain. No one will forget such infamous event.

Reflection

On the way of this important investigation, some inconveniences were presented in which the choice of sources to be analyzed was complicated since it was necessary to take into account those that provided the information in a complete and precise way for the proper analysis of my research. There were also problems when finding the testimonies that demonstrated the veracity of the events that occurred during the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, therefore, it has shown that a historian’s work is not easy and much is required to do an investigation to do an investigationin a correct way.

This study has marked in me a series of experiences and knowledge acquired, therefore, it has taught me to be more critical regarding the matters of interest that are present.

The search for information, although it became a challenge, has helped me to establish a critical level that I should clearly think of the way I will justify my purposes, in addition to that it has been a means that has allowed me to enterto history more deeply, as in the fateful moment through which the soldiers of the US base passed, and the effort of the United States to end the imminent struggle for power and the innumerable sacrifices that in no way this countryHe could accept, so that I led him to make the drastic decision to be part of a world battle.

Every fact has an origin, and consequences, which implies the way in which it will affect the future of generations to come. The purpose of a true historian is to investigate even in the narrowest spaces of the investigation to find the truth of how the events that marked a footprint in the history of mankind, so that such findings occurred to the people to be known to the people towill develop with this knowledge.