Long before the Pearl Harbor incident, Germany had attacked American merchant ships to oppose the United States' trade with its opposing countries, but those attacks were just a minor overture to the stormy waves. American Battlefield Secretary Henris Tinson uses a news feature film to keep the country informed of the situation of the war at any time.
Not long after, the " Neutrality Act " was completely abolished, and the merchants also armed and successfully entered the field of combat for the first time.
When these happened in the Atlantic Ocean, the Japanese army occupied the French Indochina Peninsula, approaching Indochina Peninsula . Then Japan was preparing to capture China.
There were two major obstacles to Japan's plan to conquer more East Asian countries: one was the Soviet Union in northern Japan, which was only a stone's throw away from Japan, but there were invading German troops in the Soviet Union at that time. Theoretically speaking, the United States is the second biggest threat to Japan. Japan's activities to expand southward are very dangerous. The United States' base in Philippines and transportation lines directly to Wake Island , Midway and Hawaii have all set obstacles for Japan's encroachment. In order to clear the obstacles, Ambassador Nomura Yoshisaburo was entrusted with a mission to visit the United States, saying that Japan wants to maintain peace. But in fact, they were working on another plan in an effort to go to Pearl Harbor with a Japanese task force.
On November 14, 1941, Yoshisaburo Nomura arrived at San Francisco , and he told American reporters that Japan wants peace. Although Japan was already in a state of waiting for war at that time and had formed an alliance with Germany and Italy on September 27 of the previous year. However, he claimed to reporters that Japan loves peace and has been committed to maintaining peace in Asia, while the United States' aid to China has delayed the process of peace. He also said that the U.S. refusal to sell oil and scrap metals to Japan is also a delay in the Asian peace process. Yoshisaburo Nomura declared that Japan wanted peace.
On November 17, 1941, Nomura Yoshisaburo and Risu Saburo were received by then-US President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordel Hull . But soon, Japan's ambition to monopolize China and even East Asia was fully exposed.
On November 26, 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Hull proposed the Basic Outline of the US-Japan Agreement, and the proposal was passed to Tokyo. Later, Japan's actions were seen as a delay in time, and Japan only bought time for task forces to arrive at their destination.
1 December 7, 1941, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Japan was looking forward to a one-point agreement with US State Department , and they wanted to respond to the US proposal. At 1:05, Japanese fighter jets arrived in Hawaii; at 1:10, the Japanese ambassador called and asked that the meeting be postponed to 1:45; at 1:20, the Japanese army began the attack.
Source: Documentary "A Brief History of World War II"
