When did the he first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu
What is 7:55am on Sunday 7 December 1941
100
Increasingly alarmed by Japanese aggression, America allowed a commercial treaty dating from 1911 to lapse when
What is January 1940
100
Rumors that began in the war are still hanging around, well past their sell-by-date, fueled only by what
What is revisionist historians and conspiracy cranks
100
what of the Japans did the US break that allowed them to decode messages faster than the Japanese themselves
What is diplomatic codes
100
Who wanted to cripple the Pacific Fleet and give them the space to invade South-east Asia
What is Japanese
200
How long was it before 5 battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed
What is within two hours
200
Things got worse in September when Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy and became a formal member of what
What is the Axis alliance
200
they accuse Roosevelt of what
What is suppressing prior knowledge of the attack, or of provoking it to enable America to enter the war by the back door
200
who was guilty of a staggering lack of co-ordination between Washington and Oahu, and between different services
What is the administration and the military
200
Japan won every major battle until when
What is midway in June 1942
300
how many Japanese and Americans were killed, how many injured
What is fewer than 100 Japanese, over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured
300
German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned french and Dutch colonies in the in the region and they became the focus of who's attention
What is Japanese
300
If war was to come, Roosevelt wanted Japan to be seen as what
What is the aggressor
300
who decoded Japanese messages on alternate days and all too often one service failed to properly communicate their new intelligence to the other
What is the army and navy
300
Of the ships damaged or sunk on December 7th 1941, only three were damaged beyond repair, and Utah was already obsolete what were they
What is the Arizona, Oklahoma and Utah
400
When was war declared
What is July 1937
400
While occupying French Indochina in July 1941, Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of South-east Asia would prompt what
What is war with America
400
Roosevelt had pushed what to the limit
What is neutrality
400
when did Ambassador Grew in Tokyo pass on intelligence that stated that Japan was planning the attack
What is January 1941
400
Rather than crushing American morale as planned, the attack did what
What is united the country behind Roosevelt and behind war
500
Lacking in natural resources, the search for alternative supplies underpinned foreign and military policy throughout the decade and led to what
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War
500
By destroying its Pacific Fleet, Japan expected to remove America from the Pacific equation for long enough to allow it to secure the resources it needed so desperately and hoped to crush American morale sufficiently to prompt what
What is Roosevelt to sue for peace
500
what came only on Hitler's invitation after he gratioiusly declared war
What is European conflict
500
In what months were warnings from military personnel overlooked, largely because they recommended massive transfers of aircraft to Oahu, aircraft that American simply did not have