The Attack on Pearl Harbor :: World War II WWII WW2

The Nipponese planned a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and enamored at 755 A.M. on December 7th, 1941. This attack led to President Franklin Roosevelt asking Congress for a Declaration of War. This was the event that led to the coupled States entering World War II.The United States was mad at Japan for invading Manchuria in 1931. We were worried about the Japanese military. That is why President Roosevelt move our Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor. After many months of talking, the Japanese broke off negotiations with the United States on December 6, 1941. We had made an offer to them and they never replied to the offer. The U.S. knew that the Japanese were probably going to attack us soon. We didnt know where the attack would be. Most military officers thought it would be in the South Pacific. They were partly proper(ip) and wrong. Nobody really thought the Japanese would attack our fleet at Pearl Harbor in the east even though we knew it was possible for an aircraft a ircraft carrier attack to hit there.The Japanese secretly sent a large naval fleet toward Pearl Harbor. It was the largest fleet of its type in history. The purpose of the commissioning was to wipe out the U.S. Pacific Fleet so the Japanese could continue to take control of the South Pacific area. Our fleet was the only real threat to their military plan.When the Japanese planes left the aircraft carriers to attack Pearl Harbor they were detected by our radar operators. The radar operators assumed they were either a large root word of birds or some U.S. planes out on a training mission. The first attack by the Japanese started at 755 am. Our ships were lined up next to each other. This made them easy targets for the Japanese pilots. In just a short period of time, five of our eight destroyers were sunk and the rest earnestly damaged. A second wave of Japanese planes also attacked Pearl Harbor. They continued to attack our ships and also attacked our airfields. One type of ship they didnt sink was our aircraft carriers. They looked for them notwithstanding never found them. They were out doing some training missions. The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor destroyed 188 airplanes.