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I chosen this project so I could learn about what happened in Pearl Harbor and how we responded. I thought we got bomb by them and we attack them right away. What I learn is that we did not attack them right aways we stop Germany first then we went on to stop Japan. I also didn't know that Japan did not want to give up after we bomb them the first time. I enjoyed learning about WW2 and learning about US and in the war and how they fought against Japan

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Video about Pearl Harbor Attack

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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Many of Pearl Harbor soldier ask to get buried with it other troops.
The USS Arizona still leaks fuel
Today Japan is one of the US strongest Allies

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One of Pearl Harbor ships after the Attack

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Pacific Basin Japanese Expansion

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Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

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On August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 10,000 of people died in the initial explosion, and many more died later from radiation exposure. Three days later, the United States dropped a bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Estimates vary, but at least 120,000 civilians died as a result of the two blasts. surrender on August 14, 1945, American forces began to occupy Japan. Japan formally surrendered to the United States September 2, 1945.

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But the Japanese had failed to cripple the Pacific Fleet. By the 1940s, battleships were no longer the most important naval vessel Aircraft carriers were, and as it happened, all of the Pacific Fleets carriers were away from the base on December 7. Some had returned to the mainland and others were delivering planes to troops on Midway and Wake Islands. Pearl Harbor assault had left the bases most vital onshore facilities oil storage depots, repair shops, shipyards and submarine docks intact. As a result, the US Navy was able to rebound relatively quickly from the attack.

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The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
So the Germany and Japan Declared war on the US. So US first sent troops to Britain to help them with the war because Germany was a bigger threat to them. Then he started to attack Japan in 1942.

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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu Hawaii that was the scene of a surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded.

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Pearl Harbor Warbirds. Anthony Cook, pearlharborwarbirds.com/why-japan-attacked-pearl-harbor. Accessed 18 Oct. 2015.

Donny Lewis, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/pearl-harbor. Accessed 14 Dec. 2007.

Pearl Harbor. Michael Ryan, www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor. Accessed 29 Sept. 2009.

America’s Response to Pearl Harbor – An Unexpected First Target. Aiden William, visitpearlharbor.org/americas-response-pearl-harbor-unexpected-first-target. Accessed 22 July 2010.

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Japan had an increased need for natural resources like oil, minerals and steel as their goals for expansion in Asia and the Pacific increased. Also US but restriction on  doing business with Japan. So Japan saw a threat. Also Japan saw a threat when US moved it US Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor