As Japanese aggression increased, its relations with the US...?
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on (What) was that mechanism; merely a means to an end
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1941
In (what year) was America not ready for war.
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incompetence
The real crime was one of (?) on a huge scale.
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lose badly
Although Pearl Harbor started the Pacific War, a war that Japan would (?), the attack itself was no failure
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Years
Although swift in execution, the attacks had been slowly brewing for ?
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increased
The policy (?) in urgency as relations with the US sank further
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neutrality
Roosevelt had already pushed (what?) to the limit and had assigned warships to accompany convoys in the Atlantic.
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myopia
This American (?) stemmed from complacent disbelief that Japan would mount such an attack, especially before declaring war.
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space and time
The attack on Pearl Harbor bought Japan the (?) it needed.
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2,400
The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over ? Americans, with another 1,178 injured.
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America
Historically, Japan had relied on (who?) to supply many natural and industrial resources.
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Britain and Russia
With US forces queuing for arms alongside (Who and who?), Roosevelt knew he needed more time to build America's military capacity
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Japanese
any study of (?) history demonstrated that pre-emptive attacks such as this were almost standard operating procedure.
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brilliant, disastrous
Operationally (?), the attack was nonetheless strategically (?)
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Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and ? aircrafts destroyed.
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South-east Asia
Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of (?) would prompt war with America
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Pearl Harbor
Some even say that the attack on (what?) was deliberately engineered by a crypto-communist president guilty of high treason.
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1941, planning the attack
It's not as if America wasn't warned. In January (?) Ambassador Grew in Tokyo passed on intelligence that stated that Japan was (doing?). It was disregarded.
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daring, painstaking
Pearl Harbor and the invasion of South-east Asia showcased Japan at its best - capable of massive (?) and (?) preparation
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Oahu.
At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the 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 (Blank) What is that island?
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Roosevelt
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 (who?) to sue for peace.
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Japan
They claim Roosevelt was itching for war with (Who) but was constrained by US neutrality, so needed a solid reason to fight. Hence they accuse him of suppressing prior knowledge of the attack, or of provoking it to enable America to enter the war by the back door.
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aircraft, radar.
it wasn't just codes: on the day of the attack, Japanese (?) were spotted by American (?). No action was taken: they were assumed to be a flight of B-17 bombers due in from the mainland.
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June 1942.
The Japanese wanted to cripple the Pacific Fleet and give them the space to invade South-east Asia. They did: Japan won every major battle until Midway in (?)