Essay question : "To what extent was the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese fair/effective and how did the American Government react ?"The attack on the Pearl Harbour in World WarII was a part of how Japan expressed their fury towards America and how they treated Japan. I think that the attack on Pearl harbour was fair because there were several issues brought up by the American Government which caused the actions of the Japanese but there were many victims made by these. Things such as : cutting off oil going to Japan, cutting off raw materials going to Japan, limiting trading materials available to Japan and persuading other countries not to trade with them were the main cause. Large portions of imports were depended on America, 70% of steel, 78% petroleum and 66% of the machine tools, these were all cut off therefore resulting in the unnecessary conflict.
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Japan Fisheries cooperativeTrading was big part of the Japanese country "because they were a growing empire so they needed trade to survive ". America reacted in ways which were entirely unexpected and effective long-term.
Firstly, cutting off the trading supplies were a large impact to Japan because, as said before, they needed trade to survive economically as well. Japan was still improving and still did not have the technology to produce steel, petroleum and machinery them selves so they were very dependent on the other countries to trade with. Some say the that the attack on Pearl Harbour was not unexpected for the President ( Franklin . D . Roosevelt) and all Pacific commands including both Navy and Army were warned sometime in November that war with Japan was expected in the near future and on the day of the attack, General Marshall had sent warning that there was going to be...
Pearl Harbour: Was it fair? / Essay question : "To what extent was the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese fair/effective and how did the American Government react ?"
This essay is a rank apology for naked aggression. Yes, the United States did restrict trade with Japan. Japan had embarked on a policy of conquest and domination throughout the western Pacific by which it demanded the submission of nearly all of its neighboring states to Japanese control, and it expected the United States not merely to acquiesce in this domination, but to supply the Japanese military-industrial complex in the process. President Roosevelt and the American government refused to be a party to this policy. And with good reason. What gave Japan the right to demand the capitulation of Singapore, what is now Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia?
The American actions, however, amounted to a refusal to engaged in unrestricted trade. Japan responded with a series of military strikes. In other words, the Japanese responded to trade restriction not by a reasonable or good faith modification of its aggressive trade policy but with a naked act of war.
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