The Effects Of Hitler's Attack On Pearl Harbor

On September 1st, 1939 Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. France and Britain declared war on Germany about two days later. Germany begin to invade countries such as Poland, Norway, and Denmark. On June 14th, 1940 Germany invaded Paris, a new government was formed by Marshal Philippe Petain who requested an armistice two nights later. France was then divided into two zones. One zone under German military occupation and the other zone under Petain’s government, installed at Vichy. Hitler begin to focus on Britain, who had the defensive advantage. German planes bombed Britain throughout the summer causing heavy casualties and damage. The Royal Air Force (Britain) eventually defeated the German Air Force in the Battle of Britain, causing Hitler to
On December 7, 1941, 360 Japanese aircrafts attacked U.S. Naval base Pearl Harbor. Americans who wanted to stay neutral in the war was taken completely by surprise and claiming the lives of more than 2,000 service members. The attack on Pearl Harbor served as justification for the American public opinion in favor of entering World War II. On December 8 war was declared on Japan by congress with only one uncertain vote. Germany and the other Axis Powers quickly declared war on the United States.
After about two years, the U.S. Pacific Fleet finally hit a turning point in the war with the battle of Midway in june 1942. On Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, the Allies also had triumphed against Japanese forces in a sequence of battles from August 1942 to February 1943, helping turn the drift further in the Pacific. In the middle of 1943, United States allied naval forces began an hostile retaliation against Japan, involving a series of amphibious assaults on key Japanese-held islands in the Pacific. The island-hopping approach proved successful, and Allied forces moved closer to their ultimate goal of invading the Japanese
Hitler released the remaining power of his army into Western Europe, in response, ensuring Germany’s loss in the east. Soviet troops proceeded into Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. Hitler gathered his forces to drive the British and Americans from Germany in the Battle of the Bulge, which was the last major German invasive of the war. On June 15, 1944, American forces invaded part of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific called the island of Saipan. Obtaining Saipan was of critical importance to the U.S. because its airfields would put the Army Air Force's B-29 bombers within striking distance of the Japanese main islands. The Japanese wanted to keep Saipan because it would be crucial in stopping the American advance. In what is known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea, American carriers fought a two-day sea and air battle off the coast of Saipan against Japanese carriers. It is considered one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three hundred planes and three aircraft carriers. The Marines and army faced an enemy well prepared to fight to the death. An intensive midair bombing in February 1945 preceded the Allied land invasion of German. By the time Germany formally surrendered on May 8, Soviet forces had occupied much of the country. Hitler committed suicide