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The Bombing of Pearl Harbor happened December 7th, 1941. The bombing was a surprise attack by Japan to cripple the United States naval base. Japan wanted to evade other territories and take them over but they were scared the naval base was going to stop them before they could fully take over all the territory they wanted. There attack consisted of two waves of Japanese air-crafts and submarines. There is no comparison for when it come to the damages the United States took compared the the losses that Japan took. Soon after the attack FDR purposed to congress to declare war. Two days after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Congress voted almost unanimously and the United States now officially declared war on Japan. One day later Germany and Italy declared war on the United States those officially making the United States apart of WWII.

Japan want to invade and expanded even more but they were scared their invasion would be stopped short because of the naval base on Hawaii. Japan already knew that the US was going to join the war on the Allies side but because FDR was selling weapons to China to defend themselves from Japan's invasions. They knew that if they could take out the naval base that it would be very easy with little complications to take over the other territories. The one thing that Japan did not account for is how hard the US would fight back and because of it they lost the war.

During the two waves of 350 airplane bombings and 28 submarines that attack the US they sunk four battleships, in which two of them were risen from the water and repaired to fight in the war, and four others were damaged. They also sank or damaged three cruiser ships, three destroyers, a training ship, and a minelayer ship. There were around 3,500 men either killed or wounded during the attack. Also a total of 188 airplanes were destroyed during the attack. The US accidentally mistook the airplanes that were flying toward them for some of there own airplanes that they were expecting. Because of this everyone on the naval base was totally unprepared for an attack so they had no defense during the first wave. After they were able to load there guns the second wave started to come and they were more prepared this time and were able to fight back a little. Japan had a total loss of five submarines, 29 airplanes, and 65 men died.

Soon after the attack congress and the president started to gather. They needed to put together a document declaring war against Japan. Japan officially declared war on the US December 7th but the US did not receive the notifications that there peace treaty was over until after the bombing was over. The following FDR signed the document and the US officially declared war against Japan which was soon after followed by German and Italy declaring war against the US on December 11th. Later that day US declared war against Germany and Italy.

In conclusion, Japan successfully crippled the naval base for some time for them to be able to invade withe ease and did not have to pay a big price or it at the time. After the US joined the war they fought back hard at which was the turning point that caused Germany and Italy to surrender and the nuclear bombing of Japan. When Japan took out a couple ships and airplanes they only stalled the US for a little bit but if they would of bombed our oil supply some say it would of set the US back a year before they could lunch an attack against Japan. Because they did not the US sent out troops to fight on both fronts. Half went to Europe to fight against Germany and the other half went across the Pacific. When the US joined the Allies it gave them another force to turn the war around and later on winning WWII and putting a stop to Nazi Germany once and for all.

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