The attack on Pearl Harbor was a Japanese air raid on a US military base on December 7, 1941 in Hawaii.
To put it bluntly, the problem began in 1937 when Japan invaded China. Since then, Japan has sought to expand territorially in order to have wealth-producing areas in its territory to meet the needs of its industry. 90% of its resources were from other countries and this created insecurities in the country’s leadership.
That is why Pearl Harbor was attacked. To prevent the US from stopping Japan’s plans in the Pacific. The goal was to destroy the US fleet so that it could not react.
To achieve the goal, the Japanese pilots were trained in an area with similar characteristics to Pearl Harbor. Special torpedoes were also built that could hit ships in morphology as they were there.
The American fleet with a large number of aircraft was at the base. The United States did not believe that such an attack could occur from Japan, so it did not take any measures to prevent major attacks.
On December 2, six Japanese aircraft carriers began operations, carrying a total of 423 aircraft. Also participating were two warships, three cruisers, 9 destroyers, 8 fuel tankers and six submarines. Very few Japanese officials knew the purpose of the mission. The others learned about him only a few hours before the attack.
Along the way, the Japanese learned that three american aircraft carriers were not at base. That was their main goal. Finally they decided to continue the operation.
During the attack, there were two waves of air raids. The Americans suffered the loss of 170 US aircraft and another 160 were damaged. Many ships also sank. 2,500 Americans were killed and 1,000 were injured.
This prompted the US leadership to declare war on Japan and Germany. Until then, Americans were reluctant to get actively involved in World War II.
The Japanese only temporarily managed to achieve their goal and prevail in the Pacific Ocean. They easily conquered the Philippines and Indonesia.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org]
