Pearl Harbor Dbq Analysis
Roosevelt´s war message to Congress began with those famous words that briefly summarized what happened the day before in Pearl Harbor, near to Honolulu Hawaii.
The attack on Pearl Harbor struck the United States of America by surprise, no declaration of war was made by one nation against the other one, but still Japan sent Bombers from distant aircraft carriers in order to attack the American Naval base that served as the western military outpost for the US.
To understand the reasons behind this attack one has to go back to the time after World War 1 to the Versailles’s Peace Conference, where the Allied Powers were to sort out the Wreckage after the war. In addition to that the US indicated special interest in founding the League of Nations,an organization to solve future world problems, however the US didn´t join it in the end, to obtain the freedom to deal with problems in their own way. Japan was quite shocked but also did some of the Japanese leaders clearly expect the US reaction, in order to divide the world. …show more content…
Starting with the Yamato race for which “Japan is the fountain source” (Doc. A). to give a brief description, the Yamato race shows the ideal of pure and unmixed race of Japanese people. Taking this back into context, you can conclude that the Japanese people were shown as a strong superior race, which are only found in Japan. In addition to that states like “Manchuria (are) it´s reservoir and China it´s paddy field” (Doc. A), which again shows the Japanese mindset since other countries are only used for providing resources for their race. Also the description of the Japanese emperor shows the admiration for their own culture, which “may be extended so as to embrace the whole world” (Doc. A). Paying special attention to the background of Document A, which was a required reading in many Japanese highschools and colleges supports the thesis that Japan saw themselves as
The attack on Pearl Harbor struck the United States of America by surprise, no declaration of war was made by one nation against the other one, but still Japan sent Bombers from distant aircraft carriers in order to attack the American Naval base that served as the western military outpost for the US.
To understand the reasons behind this attack one has to go back to the time after World War 1 to the Versailles’s Peace Conference, where the Allied Powers were to sort out the Wreckage after the war. In addition to that the US indicated special interest in founding the League of Nations,an organization to solve future world problems, however the US didn´t join it in the end, to obtain the freedom to deal with problems in their own way. Japan was quite shocked but also did some of the Japanese leaders clearly expect the US reaction, in order to divide the world. …show more content…
Starting with the Yamato race for which “Japan is the fountain source” (Doc. A). to give a brief description, the Yamato race shows the ideal of pure and unmixed race of Japanese people. Taking this back into context, you can conclude that the Japanese people were shown as a strong superior race, which are only found in Japan. In addition to that states like “Manchuria (are) it´s reservoir and China it´s paddy field” (Doc. A), which again shows the Japanese mindset since other countries are only used for providing resources for their race. Also the description of the Japanese emperor shows the admiration for their own culture, which “may be extended so as to embrace the whole world” (Doc. A). Paying special attention to the background of Document A, which was a required reading in many Japanese highschools and colleges supports the thesis that Japan saw themselves as