Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor | WW2

On the 7th of December, 1941, hundreds of Japanese aircraft launched a devastating surprise attack on America’s Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. The assault resulted in thousands of American deaths and massive losses to the U.S Pacific fleet, paralyzing their forces in the region for months to come. But it wasn’t the complete knockout blow that the Japanese had hoped for, and ended up waking the sleeping giant of America from its slumber, and dooming Imperial japan to ultimate defeat. So why did they do it? And how did Japanese miscalculations on that day, seal their fate in World War 2 (WW2)? Image credits: Icons by Lordicon.com FDR-1944-Campaign-Portrait Leon Perskie Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. (CC BY 2.0) Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (1935).jpg Nationaal Archief Willem van de Poll 1935 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. (CC BY-SA 3.0) Khalkhin Gol George Zhukov and Khorloogiin Choibalsan 1939 -1 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. (CC BY 4.0) Attribution: Mil.ru Music Credits: Devastation and Revenge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100694 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Earnest by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100248 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ All This by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ http://incompetech.com/ Impending Boom by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100198 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Minima by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200053 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Machinations by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100510 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Video Game Soldiers by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/295/video-game-soldiers Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org Faceoff by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100403 Artist: http://incompetech.com/