Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor with a sneak attack

This question had to be taken into account the situation of Japan at that time. On the one hand, small Japan wants to export troops and resources to Southeast Asia on a large scale, and there is not much room left to fight a large-scale war with the United States! Besides, I can't beat it.

The front is too long and far from home. Japan attempted to wipe out the U.S. Navy in World War I. (There has to be an element of American arrogance that Japan wants to curry favor with them.)

Seize supremacy at sea! If you change someone else, you will do the same! Get the best results at the lowest cost!

The United States did not want to participate in World War II, but it was this sneak attack by Japan. The United States, which was undecided, immediately declared war on Japan. Because the United States is the hegemon of the seas, Japan does not want the United States to interfere in its plans, so it attacks the United States.

Because Japan needed to wage a war in the Pacific, and the U.S. Navy was an adversary that it had to face, according to the pre-war naval disarmament agreement, the total tonnage of the Japanese Navy was probably controlled by 5 to 3 compared with the United States.

Japan is at a disadvantage, and Yamamoto knows the real industrial strength of the United States, so he wants to gamble and let Japan have the advantage of maritime control within half a year to a year by eliminating the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, and seize the resources of the South Seas, and it is best to deter the United States.

And the reason why Japan launched the Pacific War was because there were no resources, and the US sanctions were like playing a game, there were no mines, and they could only grab them.

During the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, the USS Arizona of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was laid to rest underwater. In order to commemorate the tragic lessons of that year, the United States built a memorial to the Pearl Harbor incident on the wreck of the "Arizona" in 1980. However, the Associated Press said on December 11 that the memorial is repeating the fate of the sinking of the USS Arizona

Due to the large number of visitors, the overwhelmed memorial is slowly sinking.

Built on an undersea fill, the 184-foot-long, reinforced concrete structure is built on an arched bridge, and the entire white memorial spans the underwater hull of the USS Arizona. At one end of the memorial is the entrance, connected to a floating platform, in the middle of which is the ceremonial hall, and at the other end is the sacrery. On the white marble memorial wall in the memorial hall are engraved the names of 1,177 admirals who died on the battleship on December 7, 1941.

Because after the successful bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan, the transliteration of the telegram sent was tora tora tora, and the attack on Pearl Harbor was also called tora tora tora, tiger, tiger, tiger, which means a successful surprise attack in the secret language of the Japanese Naval Air Force.

The Significance of the Battle of Pearl Harbor:

The battle was historically decisive. Since Japan failed to sink American aircraft carriers, it had only a small military role. But even if Japan sinks American aircraft carriers, it will not be able to help Japan in the long run.

The attack drew the United States and its deep industrial and service economies into World War II and led to the worldwide destruction of the Axis powers. Since then, the victory of the Allies and the dominance of the United States in international politics have been one or the other.

From the point of view of military history, the attack on Pearl Harbor marked a turning point in the replacement of aircraft carriers and submarines, as well as carrier-based aircraft, as the main force of the Navy. The era of decisive battles for large battleships has passed, aircraft carriers have replaced battleships as the new king of naval warfare, and naval aviation has entered the arena of naval warfare as a new decisive force. But the world navy is strong for the United States"Aviation wins"This was not realized until the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor marked the outbreak of the Pacific War. On December 8, 1941, the United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. American radio repeatedly broadcasts:

Pearl Harbor was attacked! "Roosevelt** shouted loudly:"This day of great shame must be remembered!

Then, more than 20 countries, including Australia and the Netherlands, also declared war on Japan. China's Kuomintang** also declared war on Japan on December 9, more than four years after the Sino-Japanese War. On December 21, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.

The Second World War was even more widespread.