How a cornered Japan attacked the US
It was a Sunday morning of December 7, 1941 and the US marines at the US military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii were least prepared to counter an attack. Two waves of Japanese aerial attack nearly devastated the aircrafts and aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet of US Navy, resting on the base. ‘Pearl Harbor’ was a preemptive attack by Japan intended to repulse the US Navy from blocking its ‘Southern Area Resource’ (South East Asia) colonisation plan. America and the other western colonial powers were wary of Japan’s imperial ambitions in Asia. Japan’s move into the northern ‘Indo-China’ had resulted in freezing of Japanese assets in US and embargoing US oil exports to Japan. Pearl Harbor gave America the chance to shed the neutrality doctrine and to jump into the war fray.
After long and horrific battles the Axis powers signed the Instrument of Surrender one by one. Mussolini was killed in Italy on April 28,1945 and two days later Hitler committed suicide. The Potsdam declaration of Allied Forces warned Japan of ‘prompt and utter destruction’ if not surrender. But for the US, the design was for the post-war world hegemony over Soviet Union. Nuclear bombs were designed and built under Manhattan Project. Two nuclear bombs named ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ pounded upon the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively on August 6 and 9.The US hegemony was visible for the world at the cost of thousands of lives and everlasting nuclear threat to the globe.
It was a Sunday morning of December 7, 1941 and the US marines at the US military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii were least prepared to counter an attack. Two waves of Japanese aerial attack nearly devastated the aircrafts and aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet of US Navy, resting on the base. ‘Pearl Harbor’ was a preemptive attack by Japan intended to repulse the US Navy from blocking its ‘Southern Area Resource’ (South East Asia) colonisation plan. America and the other western colonial powers were wary of Japan’s imperial ambitions in Asia. Japan’s move into the northern ‘Indo-China’ had resulted in freezing of Japanese assets in US and embargoing US oil exports to Japan. Pearl Harbor gave America the chance to shed the neutrality doctrine and to jump into the war fray.
After long and horrific battles the Axis powers signed the Instrument of Surrender one by one. Mussolini was killed in Italy on April 28,1945 and two days later Hitler committed suicide. The Potsdam declaration of Allied Forces warned Japan of ‘prompt and utter destruction’ if not surrender. But for the US, the design was for the post-war world hegemony over Soviet Union. Nuclear bombs were designed and built under Manhattan Project. Two nuclear bombs named ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ pounded upon the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively on August 6 and 9.The US hegemony was visible for the world at the cost of thousands of lives and everlasting nuclear threat to the globe.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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