on the day of the attack, Japanese aircraft were spotted by American radar.
Japanese aircraft were spotted by what on the day of the attack?
100
Japan lost.
Who lost the pacific war?
200
Five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed.
What happened within 2 hours the Pearl Harbor was attacked?
200
Axis alliance.
Japan was now a formal member of what to fight the European War?
200
Roosevelt needed more time to build America's military capacity.
What did Roosevelt needed more time for?
200
Ambassador Grew in Tokyo passed on intelligence that stated that Japan was planning the attack but it was disregarded.
What is disregarded in January 1941?
200
To invade South-east Asia.
Why did Japan cripple the Pacific Fleet?
300
The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured.
How many people died or injured because of this attack?
300
South-east Asia with rich in minerals and oil.
What was Japan's most obvious target?
300
Roosevelt saw Germany as America's main enemy.
What did he saw Germany as?
300
Warnings from Washington to Hawaii ten days before the attack were virtually ignored.
What was ignored by Hawaii also?
300
The Arizona, Oklahoma and Utah.
What were the three ships sunk on December 7th 1941?
400
Occupied Manchuria was rapidly exploited with the establishment of heavy and light industries.
What were the benefits of occupying Manchuria for Japan?
400
America supplied Britain with money and arms under the 'lend-lease' agreement.
What did America do as a neutral?
400
It was affirmed in late December 1941.
When did the 'Europe first' strategy was affirmed with Churchill at the Arcadia conference?
400
The administration and military were both guilty.
What were guilty of a staggering lack of co-ordination between Washington and Oahu, and between different services?
400
Japan gave America the chance to rebuild its fleet and re-enter the fight with brand new kit.
Japan gave America the chance to do what?
500
Lacking in natural resources of Japan.
What led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War.
500
Japan hoped to crush American morale sufficiently to prompt Roosevelt to sue for peace.
What was the purpose of attacking Pearl Harbor?
500
He assigned warships to accompany convoys in the Atlantic.
What did Roosevelt do when he had pushed neutrality to the limit?
500
US tried to guess what Japan would do.
What did America do instead of concentrating on what Japan could do?
500
Americans were incensed by Japan's failure to declare war until later that day: the sneak attack fuelled American determination to fight on, even in the face of the setbacks of early 1942.