is, Japan decided to take a "peace" trip to the U.S.A. They made the trip in November of 1941. During these "peace" talks, Japan made three proposals to the government. They were adamant in their demands for the U.S. to stop aiding China, to stay out of Asian affairs, and to begin shipping oil to Japan right away or Japan would attack the U.S.A. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the government of the United States did not carry out these proposals (internet). The United States tried effortlessly to work out their problems with Japan but no agreements were made, and the war seemed inevitable between the U.S. and Japan. The U.S. reacted by adding to their military force in the Pacific. The U.S. Pacific Fleet once stationed on the West Coast of the United States was moved to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii. President Roosevelt was confident that this move would refrain the Japanese from any strike attempt, but he was wrong.The Pearl Harbor attack was only known by a few of the Japanese naval staff. The Pearl Harbor plan was limited to five or six officers of the Combined Fleet. Japan attacked on the morning of December 7, 1941 at 7:55 a.m. The reason for such an early attack was because Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the person in control of the Japanese warships in that area knew most of the troops at Pearl Harbor would be asleep. The main planes Japan used for the attack were bombers. The number of bombers used was 350. Six aircraft carriers are what these planes were carried on. They chose to use bombers because their primary objective was to destroy as many ships as possible. The reason they did this was because Yamamoto predicted that the troops at Pearl Harbor would be able to a launch a few planes. During this attack exactly ten major command ships were destroyed. Some of the ships that were destroyed were the U.S.S. Arizona, the Pennsylvania, the Maryland, and the West Virginia (Goldstein 194).President Roosevelt ...
