The Battle of Pearl Harbor, also most know as the attack on Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, planned a surprise military strike called Operation Z against the United Sates naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory,
Untied states entered World War II, because of the attack.
The attack it placed on December 7,1941. At 7:48am Hawaiian time.
February 1922 At the Washington Conference, nine nations, including Japan and the United States, accept limits on the size of their navies.
February 1923 The Japanese government approves a secret defense policy for Japan that sees a future war with the United States as likely and states the need for Japan to prepare for it.
July 1930 The London Conference …show more content…
May 1940 The U.S. fleet is moved from California waters to Pearl Harbor.
July 1940 Roosevelt calls for an embargo on certain goods sold to Japan.
September 1940 Japan sends troops into northern Indochina and signs a military agreement, the Tripartite Pact, with Germany and Italy.
November 1940 U.S. military intelligence breaks the code Japan uses to send messages to its diplomats in Washington, D.C.; Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto has his first ideas for a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
February 1941 Admiral Husband Kimmel takes command of the U.S. fleet based at Pearl Harbor.
February 1941 General Walter Short takes control of the defense of Pearl Harbor.
July 1942 Japanese troops move into southern Indochina; the Uniter States responds with an embargo on oil sales to Japan.
October 1941 General Hideki Tojo is named prime minister of the Japanese government.
November 26, 1941 Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivers what the Japanese see as an ultimatum; a fleet prepared to strike Pearl Harbor leaves Japan.
November 27, 1941 At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel and General Short receive messages warning them of the possibility or …show more content…
April 12, 1945 Roosevelt dies and Harry S Truman becomes president.
September 2, 1945 Surrender ceremony takes place in tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri: Japan officially surrender to the United States, ending World War II.
November 1945 In Congress, the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack holds its first meeting.
July 1946 The committee issues its report, which does no blame Roosevelt or his top advisers.
January 1947 Chicago Tribune reporter George Morgenstern publishes the first major revisionist book about Pearl Harbor.
1952 Historian Charles Tansill publishes a book accusing Roosevelt of using Pearl Harbor as a “back door” to war.
1983 In his book Infamy, John Toland suggests that Roosevelt knew about the coming attack on Pearl Harbor and let it happen; Gordon Prange’s At Dawn We Slept offers a detailed look at what all professional historians accept as the proper view of the events, mainly blaming human error and miscommunication and dismissing the idea of a conspiracy to take the county into World War II by an alleged “back door” of Pearl