It was not long ago: Remembering Pearl Harbor; the day that shall live in Infamy

On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest deciding factors  in history. The attack was extremely well executed, and the result would be devastating. It was done so  the United States Navy's battleship force was not as much as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. Hence, the United States was brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

A year and a half earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese badly needed oil and other raw materials. Their Commercial access to these was very slim.  In July 1941 the Western powers effectively stopped trade with Japan. From then on, because of the great need for oil now by Japan, and because of the access to the mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was under way. 

The Japanese attacks shocked and outraged Americans into a degree of solidarity that was hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's was pretty much unstoppable.

The memory of Pearl Harbor sat deeply engrained into Americans minds. The Battle of Midway in early June 1942 eliminated much of Japan's striking power, the same memory stoked a relentless war to end Japans victories and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.

Pearl Harbor in 1940-1941;

Japanese Forces in the Pearl Harbor Attack;

Overall Views of the Pearl Harbor Attack;

Remembrance of the "Day that shall live in Infamy".

 

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