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Japanese Imperial Navy
“The key to national greatness is a strong industrial economy coupled with a powerful navy.” Introduction It was 8 AM at in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and a harbor filled with a few warships was being bombed. It wasn’t uncommon for a harbor bombing during the times of World War II. What was uncommon was the fact that the harbor belonged to the United States, a country that wasn’t involved in the war yet, and the country bombing it was Japan, a country that had come out of isolation just eighty years earlier and whose economy was just one seventh the size of the United States. A few months later one may think that Japan, being as small and new as it was that it would have been obliterated, yet it wasn’t. In fact, after five months Japan had created an almost perfect record for its name. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of two Royal Navy ships, the Prince Of Wales and Repulse, four separate engagements around Java, and operations in the Indian Ocean in April, the Japanese had inflicted heavy loses on the Allies and destroyed most of the Allied opposition around Japan itself with exceptionally minute loses. How could a country that has only been mingling with other countries for eighty years attack with great skill another country that was at the time, one of the most powerful countries in the world? Simple, Japan had been preparing for a war just like this one for since they came out of isolation in the early 1860’s. Although the war wasn’t planned against the United States and was in fact against Russia and China, the knowledge that they had acquired in new technologies, ship building, aviation, training, and tactics was all put to use when they did. Why Japan Attacked Imperialist Japan in the 1920’s and 1930’s was surviving on imports from other countries, especially from the United States. Imports such as iron and oil made up 90% of what Japan used in a year. The Japanese saw this... Please login to view comments from other users.
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