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Pursuit for power

japan's drive for power

Japan had a major prusuit for power and wanted to build an empior. They wanted to build something of the likes of great briten and america. This lead them to needing alot of resources and was something that lead japan to have amajor involvment in the pacfic ocean part of the world war. There pruisuit for resources came with a cost. They need to invaid a province called manchuria when they did they had the resouces they needed to begin there empire. They wanted more so they continued to pick away at china and this began the japans involvment in the war to begin in 1937. (HISTORY, 2023)

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Japan

Japan's influence in the war

Japan was a country that is not a resource rich country and to secure security in there country they needed resources like oil and food. Japan wanted to expand its borders taking over alot of asia to gain these resources. This was nown as the greater east asia co-prosperity sphere. They decided to wage war against china to gain this power and this lead to them biting off a bit more then they could chew (Wikipedia Contributors, 2023). japan becaming a rising threat to china and the united states power leading into the event of pearl harbour.

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Japan joining the axis forces

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united states and japan begin to dislike eachother...

Japan joined the Axis forces in order to expand its dominance in the Pacific also, they felt that the alies were a threat to japans independence. Germany and italy were taking over and japan felt that joining would strike fear in the pacific. Alothough, The two other most powerful empires in the Pacific was the United States and Great Britain and this lead them to being Japan's natural biggest opponents (Homework.study.com, 2023). After they joined the axis and began to take over china and the rest of the pacific. The united states revoked their oil and gas and assets. Then great briten did the same with there oil trade in the inlands that were colinized around japan(Wikipedia Contributors, 2023). This allience is known as The Tripartite Pact (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2023).

Japan's crisis

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Japan's crisis

Japan attacks further south after pearl harbor

The effect of the United States and great brighten cutting oil supplies was so significant to the resources Japan had it led to Japan having a crisis. Japan attempted to negotiate with the US. The US demanded that Japan redraws from the tripartite pact and from China (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2023). For Japan expected the demands would lead to defeat. unwilling to accept the demands japan had to take back the natural resources themselves, with force. Japan knew that by attacking these British and French resource bases and colonies the usa would respond with a force of its own. So they had to take out the US Navy if they wanted a chance at taking these resources.

"Preperation in the pacific ocean"

By attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan believed that it would make the United States fleet in the Pacific week and would buy them time to claim all of the resources they needed from the oil stoppage. one of the biggest gables in history. They didn't think they could win against the US, so they wanted a short war to happen. Then attempt to negotiate for peace with us allowing Japan to resume normal with the captured territories (Imperial War Museums, 2023).

Preperation in the pacfific

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PEARL HARBOR

DECEMBER 7 1941 the plans were put into action.

At 7:55 am the first wave was sent of 183 aircraft appeared in the skies over pearl harbour. the Americans were taken completely by surprise.

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The first 2 waves target the hangers and the aircraft and the 3rd wave of bombers target the battleships on the harbour.

The Japanese used underwater torpedos specifically designed for the attack to destroy the ships with ease. there was no fighting back for the US. In the first 5 minutes both of the battles ships called the USS Arizona, and the USS Oklahoma were destroyed(Pearl Harbor Tours, 2018). The third wave was sent but the base was on high alert so they weren't as successful.

in the span of one hour, the Japanese sank 18 war ships, and 188 warships and the base was unusable (Imperial War Museums, 2023). Alot of the most valuable aircraft was not there at the time of the attack which meant us still had lots of aircraft left.

Japan finishes its attacks on the south and

Japan finishs its plan

The Japanese, however, immediately followed their Pearl Harbor assault with attacks against US and British bases in the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island, Wake Island, Malaya, and Hong Kong (New Orleans, 2017). Country after coutry japan is establishing its empiror. They moved swifitly and fast and this lead them to suceed but the war was far from over. The japenese were hoping for peace with the us.

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Nuclear bombs and the end of japan in the war

Nuclear attacks

On December 7, 1941, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War. (libaryofcongress, 2017). the first deployed atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. An estimated 80,000 people died in the nuclear bomb explosion directly, while tens of thousands were killed from radioactive exposure. An further A-bomb was detonated on Nagasaki three days later by a second killing an estimated 40,000 people. In a radio address, Japanese Emperor Hirohito declared Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II (historyeditors, 2021).