In August of 1940 Americans were able to crack the secret code of the Japanese. If the Japanese gained control of the European colonies in Southeast Asia then the land that America controlled would be threatened. Roosevelt stopped the oil shipments to Japan when Japan overran French Indonesia in July 1941. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said that the U.S. fleet must be destroyed. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Two hours later around 18 American ships were either sunk or destroyed. More than 2, 400 American's were killed. Congress didn't waste any time and declaredwar on Japan the very next day.
Pearl Harbor is a day that no one will forget. I feel like we were asking for Japan to attack us, because we were making them angry by keeping a fleet pointed at them. It's almost as if the United States kept the fleet there in order to say, "Go ahead, I dare you". Decoding their secret messages and finding out confidential information was in no way an accident by the U.S. If Roosevelt thought that cutting off their oil supply shipments was going to make everything better, was he ever wrong!
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