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Germany, Japan and World War II

 

             six Japanese aircraft carriers released 181 planes including torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters to Oahu, Hawaii. The planes were spotted on radar but where ignored due to that thought that they were simply US planes that had planed to arrive that morning. It was a surprise attack they nobody predicted that early morning. Not only was Pearl Harbor attacked, other military airfields were hit in the same attack. These airfields were "Ford Island and Kaneohe Bay, the Marine airfield at Ewa and the Army Air Corps fields at Bellows, Wheeler and Hickam ". Twenty one ships were sunk or damaged while 188 aircrafts were destroyed, 159 damaged, 2,403 people died, and that included 68 civilians. The number of wounded military personnel and civilians amounted to 1178. (The Pearl) This attack on US soil began the involvement of the United States in WWII.
             The war started 2 years prior on September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Germany already occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hitler now wanted Poland. Then then continued to go for Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Because of all of the actions that were going on in Europe Franklin D. Roosevelt decide to expand the sized of the Army and National Guard. He also decided to help out France and Britain by sending them WWI munitions and 50 destroyers. He also sent naval ships to watch the western half of the Atlantic and replaced british troops with American troops to guard Iceland. (Home) This clearly upset Germany.
             Then comes in the part of the Japanese. Germany and the japans became allies along with Italy. They were called the Axis Powers. This made serious issues between japan, the United States and Great Britain. It caused a complete stop on the purchase of oil. So in 1940 the Japanese decided to capture the Dutch East Indies which was filled with oil. (Japanese) Shortly after the attack on pearl harbor accrued, on December 8th, 1941 president Roosevelt declared war on Japan.


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