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THE BOMBING OF THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBORPEARL HARBOR

SARA EMAMI

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE PEARL HARBORPEARL HARBOR

The American oil embargo caused a crisis in Japan.

Japanese were reliant on the United States for 80% of its oil, the Japanese were forced to decide between withdraw from China or negotiating an end to the conflict or going to war to obtain the needed resources elsewhere.

Prince Fumimaro Konoe asked US President Franklin Roosevelt for a summit meeting to discuss the issues.

Roosevelt replied that Japan needed to leave China before such a meeting could be held.

Konoe was seeking a diplomatic solution, the military was looking south to the Netherlands East Indies and their rich sources of oil and rubber.

Believing that an attack in this region would cause the US to declare war, they began planning for such an eventuality.

Tensions built up between the Japanese and the United States with FDR making one last appeal to Konoe – it was too late.

THE BOMBINGTHE BOMBING On December 7, 1941. the

Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

The attack on Hawaiian soil was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, later resulting in the United States becoming militarily involved in World War II