Summary: The War On The Pacific Front

The War on the Pacific Front

The war on the pacific started on December 7th 1941 when the Japanese military attacked pearl harbor the reason on why they attacked pearl harbor was the American government put an oil embargo which it dropped Japan’s oil supply and import by 80%. The process of this made the Japanese look south for supplies, the attack at the base was to weaken the American navy and destroy their oil supply for their ship’s. The reason why America put up the embargo was to make Japan’s advance on China stop it was also made to try to avoid conflict with Japan so their wouldn’t be a war to happen. The attack on pearl was planned for a while the Japanese military got their top pilots to attack the base in Hawaii, the attack took place early in the morning on Sunday December 7th 1941. The attack was a victory for the Japanese military but at the price Isoroku
The attack left the base badly damaged resulting into one out of nine battleship’s being destroyed in the process however this was also a good thing for the American navy because the Japanese didn’t destroyed the supply depot for the ship’s fuel the same with they failed to destroy the american aircraft carriers. When the american fleet was trying to repair itself the Japanese moved down south in order to get more resources for their military they went so far south that they invaded new Guinea the Australian military were training local militia to face the threat that was soon to come. American forces soon came to fight off the japanese military when they broke the Japanese codes when both sides met it was then called the battle of the Coral sea, the