The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Title: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
Category: History / North American History | Words: 1707 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could be considered one of the worst surprise attacks in American history. For every Japanese crewman or pilot killed, almost thirty-eight Americans were killed.         Before the attack, the American government had tried to negotiate many times with Japan's leaders to withdraw their troops from China and put an end to the war. Japan had already seized many bases in northern Vietnam and occupied the south in July of 1941, threatening …showed first 75 words of 1707 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1707 total…nine crewmen, and an unknown number of people on the large sub.         The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was what brought the United States into World War II. The day after the attack, President Roosevelt spoke to Congress: "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday comma December seventh comma a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire period end."

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