Reasons Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor

Imagine yourself on a peaceful Sunday morning. You are walking down the street by a popular area. Then you hear planes coming and see them coming real low. But they aren’t pulling up but actually coming down. Now they are crashing into other buildings and firing and killing innocent people. Well this is what many Americans experienced on the day that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But what people want to know is why. Well right after World War I, a peace treaty was created and the League of Nations was established. But the Japanese saw the treaty as a way for the countries like France, England, and United States to keep the power for themselves and not only that they invaded China. So the real reason why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was because they plan for a new world order, the lack of oil Japan was getting from the
They also stopped giving Japan airplanes and airplane parts. Japan needs oil the most out of all the supplies that they needed the most because they were taking over many countries so they needed it as mostly fuel. (Doc C) So Japan was desperate for the oil because 80% of it came from America.(Doc D) They also needed oil to transport between Japan, Manchuria, China, and Indochina. So of course Japan wanted revenge because America stop selling their best supplies to Japan so they bombed Pearl Harbor. (Doc D)
The last reason why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was because the U.S fleet expansion threatened Japan by its overwhelming numbers and strength it was gaining. The U.S Congress passed an act called the Naval Expansion Act and it promises to triple the fleet. (Doc C) A Japanese Prime Minister and War Minister named Hideki Tojo said that Japan knew that the U.S Navy would definitely grow stronger. (Doc E) So since Japan felt threatened by America’s growing Naval Fleet, they felt that it would be best to weakened it by bombing at the source, Pearl