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Reasons For Pearl Harbor Dbq Essay

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At the end of World War II we still had one more stubborn enemy the Japanese. After Hitler's defeat two chooses arose to deal with the Japanese. One attack the mainland or use the United States secret weapon. If the United States wouldn’t have used this weapon the Japanese still thought they could win and would they would all rather die than lose the war. The Japanese were the main reason the United States joined the war because of pearl harbor. Pearl harbor was a attack by Japanese planes on the military base killing civilians and military personnel. The Japanese still had hope that they could win the war if they just waited it out. As their enemy the United States needed to crush that hope. Which the United States did do when they used the …show more content…

Scene in document F the Japanese had demonstrated near-fanatical resistance, fighting to almost the last man on Pacific islands committing mass suicide on Saipan and unleashing kamikaze attacks at Okinawa. Fire bombing had killed one-hundred-thousand in Tokyo with no discernible political effect. Only the atomic bomb could jolt Japan’s leadership to surrender. The atomic bomb was the only thing that would make the Japanese surrender. In the American history book mentioned that the Japanese thought of their emperor as a god and would do want ever the emperor wanted. The Japanese were irrational minions to their follower. If you can’t make a deal with this country which the United States tried to do you're just going have to put your foot down and stop them. Additionally the bombing of pearl harbor before the attack the United States was a neutral country in the war. Seen in the history book Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed the neutrality act and this new law made it illegal to sell arms or trade with a country at war. Seen on History.com after this act was passed it threatened Japan’s economy when they couldn’t trade oil they started planning secert attacks on the United States. Japan had to make an impression to the rest of the world. The Japanese killed husbands wives and

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