WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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Essential to coordinating movements of fleets
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The deciding factor in the timing of the attack
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Dismissed by military decision makers
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Similar to the views of most Japanese citizens
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hirohito presided over the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and eventually, the Japanese surrender to the Allies. Many historical sources have portrayed Hirohito as powerless.
Detailed explanation-2: -Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto conceived the Pearl Harbor attack and Captain Minoru Genda planned it. Two things inspired Yamamoto’s Pearl Harbor idea: a prophetic book and a historic attack. The book was The Great Pacific War, written in 1925 by Hector Bywater, a British naval authority.
Detailed explanation-3: -On August 6, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The political and military leaders still could not agree what to do. Hirohito, now speaking more forcefully than ever before, declared, “We must bow to the inevitable."
Detailed explanation-4: -Many elements of the Imperial Japanese Army refused to accept that the emperor was going to end the war, believing it dishonourable. As many as 1, 000 officers and soldiers raided the Imperial Palace on the evening of August 14, 1945 to destroy the recording.