Why did America go to war with Japan during WW2?

	Why did America go to war with Japan during WW2? Was it all just for revenge about pearl harbor? Or were there other goals in the americans defeating them? For example, most people would say that the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki were justified because they saved more lives than if we had simply just invaded the Japanese mainland (Operation Downfall, hypothetically). However, was America, during the second world war, so focused on revenge about pearl harbor? What benefits did America get from defeating Japan? Wouldn't it have saved more lives-in a hypothetical third alternative, if we had simply just left Japan during WW2? By defeating the Nazis, we had saved tens of millions of lives in the long run. What lives did America save by defeating Japan? I just find certain parts of history 2 be very confusing and very hard 2 understand. Can somebody please explain 2 me why America went 2 war with Japan? How evil was their imperial dictatorship, as compared to the Nazis, during WW2? Also, did they have any plans of invading and taking over the mainland coast of the USA? What good did we accomplish by going to war with Japan? We saved millions of lives by defeating the nazis. We didn't save millions of lives by going 2 war with Japan Asked By: Christopher!!! - 1/29/2013

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~FDR wanted to get into the war in Europe. Neither the American people nor Congress were going to let him. In fact, the draft was extended in August 1941 by a single vote. From the various Neutrality Acts through Cash and Carry to Boats For Bases and finally, Lend/Lease, FDR pushed the US closer and closer to war, but it still wasn't working. On 9/11/41, he all but declared war on Germany when he bragged on his Fireside Chat that he had ordered US Navy ships to fire, without warning or provocation, on any German warships seen in US "defensive waters" which he described as the entire North Atlantic, from US ports, along the coast of Canada, past Greenland and Iceland to the beaches of the British Isles. He also transferred a number of warships from the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic Command to engage in hunter-killer missions he dubbed "neutrality patrols". Meanwhile, because of the Tripartite Pact, he assumed that if he could provoke an attack by the Japanese, war with Hitler would naturally follow. The McCollum Memo is but one blueprint prepared to determine how such an attack could be provoked. FDR engaged in continuous and ever-escalating provocations against the Japanese. He beefed up bases in the Philippines, Guam, Wake and Midway and elsewhere along the vital Japanese shipping routes. He sent massive aid to Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh, promising to help them in their war for independence and unification of Vietnam (when FDR pledged to Churchill and Stalin at Tehran that he had no intention of keeping that promise, and when Truman broke the promise at Tokyo Bay and again in 1946, and when Ike stabbed Ho and the Vietnamese in the back in 1954 and 1956, the seeds of the Vietnam War were irretrievably sown). Against the sage advise of his best admirals, including Otto Richardson, Husband Kimmel and Chester Nimitz, he ordered the Pacific Fleet transferred from the safety of San Diego to Pearl Harbor. The admirals warned that the move was an unnecessary provocation, likely to induce an attack, and cautioned that war games had proven that the fleet could not be protected from a carrier based aerial attack. Then CinCPac Richardson repeatedly disobeyed the order and when he finally complied, he continued to voice his fears. He was fired for his effort. Nimitz refused the post, knowing that the attack was more than probable and the when it came and the fleet was destroyed, CinCPac would be the fallguy. Kimmel felt the same, but took the job - and a few months later did indeed become the goat. Finally, along with ever extending the embargoes on steel, oil, rubber and other vitally necessary goods that Japan desperately needed, FDR created an entire new army, the USAFFE, brought Douglas MacArthur out of retirement to lead it and stationed it in the Philippines - a knife at Japan's jugular, then he attached the largest collection US warplanes outside the US, the USAAFE, to it. On the very same day, he seized all Japanese assets in the US without cause or legal authority. The final straw was the Hull Note, which the Tojo Cabinet perceived as nothing less than the war threat and ultimatum that it was. Kido Buti was launched. The Japanese had no intention of invading the US. They didn't have amphibious troops with them when they attacked Pearl and had no intention of landing there, let alone attempting a land war on the continental US. The logistics alone precluded such a fools errand, given Japan's chronic lack of resources. The purpose of the attack was to destroy the fleet, induce a prompt peace and force the US to reduce its military presence in the Japanese sphere of influence and to lessen the embargoes. Since Matthew Perry and the Black Ships, US policy had been to keep Japan in the Third World and to restrict her ability to become an equal, economically or militarily, in the community of nations. Japan had had enough. There is no room to explain why the bombs did nothing to end the war. Nimitz, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Chief of Staff Leahy, Commander of US Air Forces, Far East Carl Spaatz and a host of others explained how the bombs were unnecessary because the war was won and Japan was trying to surrender when they argued against using the weapons. The US Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that the bombs did not bring about the surrender when the studied the question immediately following the war. The myths you are taught in school are false propaganda. The truth is available if you care to put in the effort to find it (in declassified and never classified US military and government records). [An aside: the US and UK and other western allies contributed very little of military significance to the defeat of the Third Reich. That European war was fought and decided by the Red Army on the Eastern Front and the result was already a foregone conclusion before the first US troops came under fire in North Africa in November, 1942.] Answered By: Oscar Himpflewitz - 1/29/2013

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We shouldn't view history from the perspective of ideology or propaganda. For example, most likely 99?f Westerners believe that the Allies were just. That fact is not a historical fact, but it is historical propaganda. Before the Second Sino-Japanese War started, western countries had many colonies in the world, and westerners had operated an obscurant policy in the colonies. The Japanese only had been had equal treatment from westerners. Therefore, Japan proposed The Racial Equality in Paris Peace Conference in 1919. However, the U.S and British took strong opposition in the conference, so the proposal did not get the approval. We should know this fact. America colonized the Philippines, France colonized Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, England colonized Malaysia, Singapore and Burma and the Netherlands colonized Indonesia. Holland has occupied Indonesia, and France, Indochina for a few hundred years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70rm_-e-OA They were driven out of those countries by the Japanese army. This is a statement aimed at the public in Asahi newspaper(Japanse language) Japanese Empire aimed at the liberation of South and East Asia from tyranny by White Men. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ka9900dc/GALLERY/show_image_v2.html?id=http://img5.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/15/49/ka9900dc/folder/791526/img_791526_34988451_1?1344674874 Japan at that time was saying that if America would only agree to retaining the Tenno(The Emperor ) system, they would surrender. President Truman knew that Japanese were considering surrender with the Soviet's intervention. The war was close to the end at that point. But he decided to use the atomic bomb on July 24. (formulation of atomic bombing mandate) The Potsdam Declaration was announced on July 26. (But retaining of the Tenno system was deleted) He prevented Japan from surrendering. He really wanted to use the atomic bomb. There were three reasons for that. First, they wanted to show the strength of America to the communist Soviet Union, their new enemy. Second, America spent so much money on the Manhattan project, and they needed to produce a result. Third, there was a strong desire in the military that wanted to use the new weapon on a battlefield. So, without warning, in the center of the city, away from any military sites, at 8:15 in the morning during rush hour, the bomb was dropped. The atomic bombs were of two different types. After the war ended, an American military team visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see the victims. But they were only there to see them and not to cure or treat them. Why is it that they dropped atomic bombs of different types on two port cities similarly surrounded by mountains and then persistently investigated the blast victims for years after that, like they were laboratory animals? There was a paper that Harvard University devised after the war that says "It was necessary to drop the bomb to save a million American lives." This lie is not supported in any document during the war. War is something that should be carried out on the battlefield. Why were men rounded up on the battlefield and bombs dropped on towns where only women, children and old people were remaining? United States Army commander who served primarily in Asia during World War II, Albert C. Wedemeyer said, “Finally, the U.S knows which countries should have been fought as their enemy during the war. After the WW2 finished, the Korea War and Vietnam War happened. As Japan thought the Manchuria in China and area of Korea were very important to defend from communist countries. That’s why Japan had controlled them before they defeated.Japan tried to have conference with the U.S president before Japan attacked the Hawaii. However, the U.S president ignored Japanese requested. If the U.S had understood the Japanese strategy at that time, the two of communists’ countries, Russia and China, would not have been become such countries which a hypothetical enemy U.S thinks. Moreover, many American would not have died by the wars.” Source(s): What Japan fought for . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhzgNQy0Rfg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwbHPaGWLw On November 25 Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of War noted in his diary that he had discussed with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt the severe likelihood that Japan was about to launch a surprise attack, and that the question had been "how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.'" Thus, President Roosevelt knew in advance about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The point is America let Japan make a preemptive attack to compile the American public opinion. "National Affairs: PEARL HARBOR: HENRY STIMSON'S VIEW". Time. April 1, 1946. 1941: Pearl Harbor Sunday: The End of an Era, in "The Aspirin Age - 1919-1941," edited by Isabel Leighton, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949, page 490. Answered By: Nowitzki - 1/30/2013

The Japanese first to militarily strike were allied with Germany and Italy. In declaring war upon Japan it included her allies in the war. There is a mountain of evidence that some of the above arguments are true ...but in reality: basing an out outdated obsolete fleet in Hawaii as a threat to make Japan behave itself was just a waste of men and material and only made Japan's objective temporally sweeter. The thought of a battleship war with both sides slugging it out was long outdated by the time of the Pearl Harbor attack but both sides persisted in retaining it in their battle plans and only history could prove the line of thought as obsolete as taking a knife into a gun battle. I think you need to think of historic rational lines of European war behavior. (with the exception of Hitler's goofy staged attack on a radio station as an excuse to war on Poland or his attack on Russia) usually a declaration of war preceded acts of hostility. Japan had no such history outside of it's Bushido code that required waking a slumbering warrior up before battling him. The military leaders were evil in that they had no regard for their own noncombatant population (an historical abnormality!) but then you have to look at it from their Military Feudal mindset position as the peasant having no value or rights. Also add they didn't treat the countries they militarily conquered well and in return expected any conquer to act the same! Yes there were mainland designs ...You must remember that Japan had a very successful military run for the first year! There are very few "accomplishments" in any war...the loser only receives less or no accomplishments. But in any war there are major rapid technological advancements as to arts of war...usually at the cost of both parties. Answered By: Fred - 1/30/2013

They would have attacked the west coast. We needed to bring those slanty eyed devils to their knees. Answered By: emgee - 1/29/2013

After pearl harbour the American public was in outrage. A bit like 9/11 recently. The government could already see the threat of nazi germany and were on the brink of joining the war anyway. Japan also had waged war on British colonies and countries in Asia, I think they attacked china as well but I'm not sure. The Japanese then had thousands of prisoners of war whom they treated terribly. The Americans had to act before Japan had control over the pacific. Many Americans had already left America and joined Britain, particularly in the RAF. So the government didn't have much choice to join the war else pretty soon they alone would be facing the combined might of Japan and nazi germany. This is all a bit muddled up and snippets of info but you can find more on the internet Answered By: Jamie - 1/29/2013

When another country bombs your military facility and destroys your fleet, you're in a war because they started one. President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our secretary of state a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack." We were never in Japan during WWII. Answered By: Hannah - 1/29/2013

Because they attacked us. Japan wasn't popular with the US Government before the attack. They were behaving worse in China then Hitler did in Europe (including concentration camps with human experiments in germ warfare and hypothermia to the point of death), also ref; The r**e of Nanjing, and the attack was just 'the last straw'.. Answered By: Irv S - 1/29/2013

America went 2 war with Japan 2 save millions of lives by going 2 war with Japan 2 do good and 2 get revenge and 2 confuse people and make things very hard 2 understand. But mostly 2 save millions of lives and to write "2" instead of "to" a lot (and 2 save millions of lives). Answered By: Sir Caustic - 1/29/2013

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they falsely accused America of interfering with their operations in Asia but many people forget they started the war by attacking Manchuria in 1931. Then in 1937, Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China. The Japanese Army started committing atrocities left and right against innocent Chinese civilians, such as in Nanking. When word of atrocities reached to the United States, FDR then protested and demand that Japan withdraw it's troops from China or we will cut off our oil and shipments to you. Japan did not withdraw from China and so FDR stop selling oil and other shipments to China because our resources that was going to Japan was using these same things to commit atrocities. Despite this, Japan still decided not to attack America because they know they were the most powerhouse at that time. In 1941, they decided to invade the Dutch East Indies because of oil there but many felt that the U.S. would get involved as well. So they decided to use per-emptive strike which they picked was Pearl Harbor. While the U.S. was still at peace, Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor out of nowhere. After the attack, many Americans were pi$$ed off about it and demand they should go to war against Japan because of it. At the same time, Germany then started to declare war on the the U.S. as well. thus the U.S. had to fight in two fronts. Answered By: Major Armed Man - 1/29/2013

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