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1. List the reasons why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
 * The Japanese intended to cripple the United States fleet
 * By attacking United States battle-ships, the Japanese intended to break the US people's will to fight them
 * The United States had embargoed oil and other major resources from Japan, causing them economical harm
 * Japan's assaults on China and other important East Asia territories caused the US to aid China against Japan
 * By striking the fleet at Pearl Harbor, the United States could not send a counter attack
 * Also, by crippling the United States Pacific fleet, they US would have a much harder time defending the Philippines, which was under US protection
 * Because America has a diverse group of people, Japan believed that by attacking the US we wouldn't be able to agree on acting against Japan
 * Most of the United States fleet was stationed at Pearl Harbor
 * They already had opposing alliances on the war in Europe

-FDR banned all exports of scrap iron, steel,and oil to Japan. Japan lost more then 90 percent of its oil supply. -Fear of resources such as oil running low. -US demanding Japanese withdrawl from Indo-China. -The belief that Japan was becoming encircled by Western powers.

2. Did the U.S. know about the attack on Pearl Harbor? Yes and no. The United States had an idea of possible Japanese aggression. A few of the United States generals working in Japan at the time of WWII reportedly heard of a possible attack on the United States through an unnamed source as a rumor, specifically the target being Pearl Harbor. The rumor, however, was discarded as only being a rumor, since the source could not be identified. The United States also was said to have cracked the code of the Japanese encryptions. It's said a transmission that the United States decrypted had plans from the Japanese that they intended to launch a large assault against the US, but it did not specify when or where. So, in technicality, the US did and didn't have knowledge of the attack happening.

Actually........FDR knew about the attack and provoked it. He covered up his failure to warn the Hawaii commanders of the attack. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war. Germany, Italy, and Japan had an agreement that an attack on one was an attack on all. Since the public and congress were against entering the war in Europe, this was his other option to entering the war.

ACTUALLY; FDR had nothing to do with it. All o fthe information on the Japanese attack was found IN JAPAN, by United States generals stationed there. Also, FDR wouldn't need to be attacked to enter the war. In all honesty, why would you sink your own fleet that you need to fight the war you sunk it for?

um..I wouldn't say he didn't have anything to do with it because actually he did. FDR knew there was going to be an attack in Hawaii but did nothing to stop it. No one ever said he needed to be attacked to enter the war, it was an option to entering the war considering the public and Congress did not was to get involved. Even if the US sunk their own fleet, you act like they can't get more?

Information that I found actually did say the US needed a reason for entering the war, Congress wouldn't declare war for no reason. So I find it highly likely that FDR wanted this attack to happen as a way to convince Congress to enter the United States into the war.

Did you not just say that the US wouldn't need to be attacked to enter the war? Your changing around what your saying now. And maybe the information you found isn't 100 percent correct..ever think of that? and did i not already say that thats why they wanted the attack to happen...to get Congress to enter war..already said that..thanks.