Effects Of The Inevitable Attack On Pearl Harbor

The Inevitable Attack

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th of 1941 was the effect of many years of political and military tensions in Europe and in Asia. The tensions in Europe were due to the growing power of Germany led by Adolf Hitler, involving nearly all of Europe, but mainly Germany, France, Britain, and even the Soviet Union. The Asian tensions, which had been going on since around July of 1937, were due to the desires of Japan to expand their powers unto all the Asian countries. Japan sought to expand its powers in a political and military manner, but also sought to use the resources that the Asian countries in which they were invading had, that they themselves did not. According to Japan, they were benefiting the countries they were entering, rather than harming or taking away their freedoms. Because of the threats of Germany invading Britain, and Japan completely taking over the Pacific and Asian countries, the United States and President Roosevelt decided to aid their allies but still remain neutral within the chaos. To the Axis Powers, it was a sign of involvement, even though the US wanted to still hold their policy of isolationism. The United States were pro-isolationism because of the Great depression they had recently come out of. The Attack on Pearl Harbor could not have been avoided due to certain aspects such as the conflicting priorities the US and Japanese had, the negotiation issues including assumptions amongst the Officers of both nations, the geopolitics which relates to the negotiations, and even the responsibilities of both the US and Japan.

The Japanese and US had priorities that were similar in some ways, but very different in others. One of the Japanese priorities was to take over all...

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...as not perceived well by the Japanese. The Japanese were offended by the Hull Note, which made an attack even more inevitable, but I believe that Japan was so strong in what they believed that they would have turned down and sort of agreement or proposal or idea that was not written by their own terms. I do not believe that any compromises could have been made between the US and Japan based on their allegiances to their allies whom were enemies, and the priorities they had to those ties.

The attack on Pearl Harbor could not have been avoided, because the Japanese had different priorities than the US, and they conflicted too much, which also leaked into other aspects such as the miscommunications between the two nations, and the assumptions of Churchill about the Japanese that Roosevelt listened to which eliminated the useless Vivendi. The attack was inevitable.