The meeting did not go threw with the two nations. Japan then attacked Atu (an island off of Alaska), in hopes to draw the American forces up North which was proved ineffective. Soon after this they planned out a sneak attack on Pearl Harbour, a military base for the Americans in Hawaii. The Americans had a small idea that the Japanese might attack them. On the morning of December 7, 1941, a flight of planes were detected, but the people in Pearl Harbour were told that they were US fighter planes coming in from California. Soon after that a Japanese submarine was discovered in the waters South of Hawaii. An American destroyer was sent out to destroy the submarine, which it did. Soon after, the planes that had been detected earlier were in fact, Japanese forces. They launched their bombes on Pearl Harbour and destroyed 3/4 of the air crafts, all eight battleships, and 2300 people. The US had no planes in the air, or anything else ready to fight. After the bombing the planes from California had arrived only to see Pearl Harbour in black smoke. President Roosevelt wasted no time as he asked .
congress to declare war. On December 8,1941 war was declared on Japan. .
What Was The Nature Of The War Between The Us And Japan?.
At the start of the war Japanese forces were very confident of winning the war against.
the Americans. They used methods such as bombings and air raids to try to defeat the.
Americans. In 1943 the US turned the tables by island-hopping and soon started to drive the Japanese back into Japan. In 1944 Japan started losing ground to against the Americans. They started to resort to suicidal banzai in attempts to kill as many of the Americans as possible. Some examples they did were driving explosive filled planes into air crafts and strapping bombs to themselves so when they were dead the bombs would still go off. The battle of Okinawa was the last step in the island-hopping strategy before the invasion on Japan.
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