Pearl Harbore

On the morning of December 7th, of 1941 the sleeping giant would get an awakening. At the naval base in Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to blow up all of the ships and the airfields. The Japanese airplanes were only targeting the bigger battleships such as the USS Arizona, USS West Virginia, or USS Tennessee. Eighteen ships were either sunk or badly damaged, including eight battleships. Around 200 U.S aircraft were destroyed and approximately 150 damaged. 2,400 Americans were killed mainly soldiers and about 1,200 were wounded. Japan only lost about 29 planes. Japan did this because they wanted America to pay back for putting an embargo on them for oil and iron ore. This is because Japan was taking over land that they shouldn't have taken. President declared war on Japan immediately after the attack. Later Germany and Italy declared war on US. After the bombing emperor of Japan Isoroku Yamamoto knew he had made a big mistake. He knew that he did something really of the scale, and he knew that he would pay back after all of this. His famous quote is "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"