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As German Submarines sank British ships in the Atlantic, the British began moving warships from southeast Asia, which left India and other colonial possessions vulnerable to Japanese attack. Roosevelt decided to apply economic pressure because Japan depended on the U.S. for many key materials. This made Japan furious and made them sign an alliance with Germany and Italy. Roosevelt then made an attempt to stop the aggression, but it failed. Resulting in Japan forces in Indochina.
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In November six Japanese aircraft carriers, two battleships, and several other warships set out for Hawaii. On November 27, American commanders at the pearl harbor naval base received a war warning from Washington D.C. On December 7th, eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, and four other vessels were sunk or Damaged and 2403 Americans were killed. The next day Roosevelt asked congress to declare war which senate voted 82 to 0 and house 388 to 1 to declare war on Japan.
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In early September, a German U-boat fired on an American destroyer that had been radioing the U-boat's position to the British. Which Roosevelt responded by ordering American ships to follow a shoot on sight policy towards German submarines. The Germans were not too happy about that, so they targeted two American destroyers which one of them sank after being torpedoed. In the after math 100 sailors were killed and as 1941 ended Germany and the United States continued to have a tense standoff. -
Japanese believed that they could safely proceed with two attacks at once, but American team of code breakers had already broken the Japanese navy's secret code for conduction operations. So, when the Japanese were going to attack the U.S., we sent out two aircraft carriers to intercept the Japanese in the coral sea. They launched airstrikes at each other which resulted in the U.S. losing one of the aircraft carriers and badly damaging the other but prevented them from attacking New Guinea's. -
Even before pearl harbor, Roosevelt was searching for a way to raise the morale of the American people. He wanted to bomb Tokyo, but American planes could not reach Tokyo unless there was an aircraft carrier that drove them close enough, but Japan had north pacific on defense. But they came up with a plan to not us a short bomber and use a B-25 bombers that could attack father away. So, they load 16 B-25 bombs in Hornet and on April 18 American bombs fell on Japan for the first time.
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Back at Pearl Harbor, the code braking team discovered the plan that the Japanese had on attacking Midway. Admiral Yamamoto ordered carriers to take position near midway. As Japanese came in, they ran into a blizzard of antiaircraft fire, and 38 planes were shot down but when they went in for a second wave the U.S. already sent a counterattack which led to Japanese carriers in burning recks. -
The American plan to defeat Japan by using a strategy where they would hope island to island through the central pacific closer and closer to Japan. As soon as they hit shore 20 ships ran aground and alll the marines had to plunge into shoulder high water and only 1 of 3 marines made it back to shore. Once they came to shore the war was far from over as an amphibious tractor to rescue the remaining troops.
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The Navajo Code Talkers could translate radio stations when the U.S. was on their way to attack which meant they knew a lot of information about their attack before they started attacking. They could relay a message in minutes that would have taken a code machine operator hour to encipher and transmit. During the battle of Iwo Jima, code talkers transmitted more than 800 messages during the first 48 hours.
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After the Marshall Island the Navy targeted Mariana islands. They used B-29 because they could fly father than any other plane in the world. From airfields in the Marians, B-29s could bomb Japan. Japanese gave strong resistance, but the U.S. captured 3 islands in the Marians and a few months later, B-29 began bombing Japan.
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The largest naval battle in history and the first time Japanese used kamikaze attacks but the Japanese situation was so desperate the commander decided to retreat. Even though they retreated it does not make up for the damage they did, 80,000 Japanese were killed fewer then 1,000 surrendered and MacArthur's troops did not capture Manila until March 1945 and the battle left more than 100,000 Filipino civilians dead.
