The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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- We have had much success taking over these countries. Soon, we will be unstoppable!
- We can't have the Japanese obtaining too much power. Cut off our oil and steel exports to Japan.
- General, the Americans have chosen to stop giving us oil and steel.
- WHAT! This will not go unpunished. Send a air strike to Pearl Harbor. NOW!
- The Japanese started to take over countries in an effort to become more powerful. This negatively impacted the U.S.
- Franklin Roosevelt saw that Japan was acquiring more and more power. So, he decide to stop exporting oil and steel to Japan. He believed this would weaken their resources.
- The Japanese general Isoroku Yamamoto, was furious of the U.S decision. He considered this a direct attack to the Japanese. He decided to send a air strike to Pearl Harbor as retaliation.
- This is a UNACCEPTABLE act from the Japanese! We shall declare war on them! And get the missles ready, we will show them that America will NOT back down!
- The Japanese flew to attack Pearl Harbor.
- The Japanese launched their missles and despite the Americans efforts the ship was blown up.
- Franklin Roosevelt learns of this terrible tragedy and is outraged. He declares war on Japan and soon after bombs Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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