Pearl Harbor
- Dec.7, 1941 – Attack on US Naval Base in Hawaii
- Not intended to put USA into war
- They thought U.S would be too “soft” to reclaim that territory
- Objective: sink and immobilize U.S. battleships and carriers
- Eight battleships were damaged, two were lost and three were absent during the raid.
- It almost succeeded
- Japanese failures:
- Oil depots weren’t destroyed
- Aircraft carriers are absent
- Submarine pens were not destroyed
- USA declares war on Japan
- Hitler declares war on USA on Dec. 10
One could say Japan awoke a sleeping giant. The attack by Japan although it did great damage was a failure they did not blow up all their objectives.