Due to the Japanese aggression towards China, the Roosevelt administration granted financial assistance to China. Japan continued and the US cutoff trade with Japan, but continued negotiations. Without Japan’s main source of oil, they had to do something or else in the next year Japan would bankrupt. Japan sent out a fleet of battleships to approach Hawaii from the Northwest. Up and until 7:54 a.m., December 7, 1941, no one seriously suspected anything. One minute later, the entire American bas was under attack by 360 Japanese planes. There were eight American battleships docked in Pearl Harbor that morning. Some ships burned and some capsized and unprepared men were killed. Japan had two waves of attacks. The Americans believed the planes were their own. When the second wave came in, the Americans fought back but were very inefficient. The attack was very short and is known as one of the shortest. Even though it was a short attack, it was a devastating attack. It’s amazing they inflicted as much damage as they could in such a small amount of time. When the day was done, over 2,400 Americans were dead, eight battleships were sunk or disabled, and 177 planes were destroyed. The Japanese lost only 29 planes and 100 men.
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