Pearl Harbor: A Tragic Events In American History

The attack of Pearl Harbor on December seventh, 1941, was a tragic event in American history. Throughout the 1930’s and 40’s Japan had been trying to conquer Asia. During this time, the United States had been helping Great Britain to help fight against the Nazi’s by giving them supplies (Remembering). At the end of the summer in 1940, the United States had completely shut off trade with Japan. With Japan’s ongoing journey of trying to conquer all of Asia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the fateful decision to move the American Fleet from California to Hawaii in 1940 (Pearl). Japanese Admiral Isorku Yamato had one goal which leads to the attack on Pearl Harbor. His plan was to infiltrate the US Pacific fleet so they could bring the United
On November third, 1941 Japanese authorities got a top-secret order that said in 34 days they were to bomb Pearl Harbor. A cryptologist intercepted a Japanese message that inquired about ship movements and where they were located in Pearl Harbor. She then sent it to her superior who said “he would get to her the following Monday, December eighth” (remembering). It was Sunday, December seventh, and unknown to the United States several Japans aircraft was stealthily steaming towards Pearl Harbor. American thought nothing of an attack as most of the soldiers had been granted to go attend Sunday morning services. “At 7:02am a radar operator on Oahu saw a ginormous group of airplanes heading toward the island, he called his superior who said not to worry it was just U.S B-17 bombers coming in from the mainland (Pearl Harbor Bombed).” As the bombs started falling down to Pearl Harbor it destroyed or damnaged: twenty-one battleships, killed over three thousand soldiers, and planes rendered useless (Pearl). American was like a sleepy giant that got woken up. Out of all the battleships only eight was anchored in the