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Why Did The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbour?



On 7th December 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States Pacific Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. In just two hours 18 warships, 190 aircraft and over 2,500 servicemen had lost their lives. This event changed the war throughout the world with the most powerful nation then involved. Shortly after the attack, US congress had declared war on Japan. As one historian said, ‘Japan simply awaked the sleeping giant’.
There are many factors that are thought to have triggered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. These include both factors where Japan felt provoked by the USA and the Japanese desire to build a Pacific Empire.
Roosevelt had tried to keep the war in Europe and the Pacific away from his country due to the lack of support for a war. Instead he had lent US military machinery and weapons to help the UK in Europe. If the Nazi’s took England too, America would have little political support and could be next on Hitler’s...