The Pearl Harbor incident in history seems to be a successful sneak attack war launched by Japan against the United States, but the chain reaction brought about by this sneak attack can be said to be the disaster of the Axis powers in World War II, so Hitler's reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was anger and disappointment, according to Hitler's own words, "Japan is like a wild boar that fell into a trap", and the actions of Japan's pig teammates bankruptEd Hitler's strategic layout and a major turning point in World War II.
Pearl Harbor events in summary
In 1940, Germany's blitzkrieg swept through Western Europe, Germany completely occupied the European military power France, Britain was isolated in Great Britain, and German chariots successfully captured several Soviet military towns and besieged Moscow. The pace of Japan's aggression against Asian countries is not slow, and the defeat of the war in Western European countries has led Tonkin to target the colonies of Britain, France and other countries in Southeast Asia, and Japan has tried to continue to expand its achievements, which has touched the interests of the Americans, which in turn has triggered sanctions by the United States——"
Oil embargo
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As we all know, Japan's "militarism" is actually to transfer the contradiction of economic decadence at home, Japan's lack of resources is a very fatal problem, so Japan's foreign aggression target is also the plundering of resources, its strategy of feeding the war with war has indeed achieved certain results, so the oil embargo sanctions promulgated by US President Roosevelt on July 26, 1941 are very serious problems for Japan, in August 1941, Japan's oil reserves can only maintain the Japanese Army for 12 months, the Navy for 18 months. Thus, in the absence of diplomatic access to this problem, Japan signed the Triple Alliance Treaty with Germany and Italy on September 27, 1940, and then the Japanese Emperor decided to declare war on the United States at the Imperial Council on November 5 (the actual Attack on Pearl Harbor was an undeclared war).
In the early morning of December 7, 1941, Japan, under the planning of Isoroku Yamamoto, raided the U.S. Pacific Fleet's naval base at Pearl Harbor. The United States was bombed many warships and aircraft, more than 2,000 soldiers were killed, resulting in the near paralysis of the US military base, there is a saying that the Pacific Fleet was almost completely destroyed, but this is actually an exaggeration, and it will be said later. Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was on the one hand a retaliatory act of retaliation for the US oil embargo, and on the other hand, it was also seen that the US Pacific Fleet was a great threat to Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia, and according to Yamamoto's statement, the significance of targeting the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was to prevent the US Pacific Fleet from containing Japan's flank of attacking Southeast Asia.
The impact of Pearl Harbor
"That's it! We finally won. --Churchill
According to Hitler's strategic plan, Japan's attack on the Soviet Union in northeast China could form a two-front war against the Soviet Union with Germany, and it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union was occupied, but the precondition for all this was that the United States would not enter the war. Germany, which was deeply trapped in the Soviet battlefield, was already suffering in the face of severe cold weather, and Japan not only did not give Support to Germany on the Eastern Front at this time, but provoked the United States, and the comprehensive national strength of the United States did not rise after World War II, its strength was already displayed in World War I, and it was because of the participation of the United States in World War I that the trend of the war was changed, which was also ordered by Hitler in 1939."
No German submarine was allowed to attack the American fleet in the Atlantic
The reason is that Germany's strategic goal is now only to conquer the Soviet Union and control all of Europe, and the American powers are a part of its daring to touch, but the stupidity of the pig teammate Japan has broken Hitler's strategic layout.
After pearl harbor, Churchill could not resist the joy in his heart, because it would inevitably lead to the participation of the United States in the war, and it is also true that the United States had maintained a neutral posture until this incident, and after this incident, Roosevelt gave a speech in Congress at noon on December 8, and then the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the proposal to declare war on Japan, and the United States abandoned it."
isolationism
With the Declaration of War by the United States on Japan, China officially declared war on Japan on the 9th and declared war on Germany and Italy on the 10th. Immediately after Australia, New Zealand, Canada and nearly 20 other countries also declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy were forced by alliance relations to declare war on the United States on the 11th, and the United States responded and declared war on Germany and Italy, thus forming the overall pattern of World War II.
Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories
From the U.S. sanctions on Japan to the declaration of war on Japan, a series of relationships in between have given rise to another theory, that is, Roosevelt deliberately directed the attack on Pearl Harbor by finding an excuse for the United States to declare war on Japan, for the following reasons.
Although the United States is neutral, its sanctions against Japan are a threat to Japan's vested interests, so the United States cannot sanction Japan without defense, in addition to the terms of the oil embargo, the United States has also frozen all Japanese assets in the United States. According to Roosevelt's memorandum, this is to win more bargaining chips, but the Japanese Emperor's statement at the Imperial Council that there is no way to solve the diplomatic route shows that there is no consensus between the two sides in the negotiations, so raising the alert is an inevitable task for both sides, at least into a state of combat readiness, and it will not be dozens of minutes after the incident before the Pacific Fleet Command issued a notice that "Pearl Harbor has been attacked by air, not an exercise".
The United States has a strong spy system and intelligence system, and it seems unreasonable not to be aware of the Japanese sneak attack. Isoroku Yamamoto was in the process of making a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor"
Battle Plan Z
Two hypothetical preconditions were proposed, namely, that the U.S. Pacific Fleet was anchored in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack, and that the second premise was that the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet would not be detected while crossing half the Pacific Ocean. Both of these preconditions were considered impossible in Japan, and yamamoto agreed to the plan under the threat of resigning as commander of the Combined Fleet. But these two premises were successfully achieved, the US military not only parked the warships in Pearl Harbor well, but also took a normal vacation on the weekend, and the US reconnaissance patrol aircraft did not find a huge fleet of the size of Japan's 6 aircraft carriers.
On the Pacific coast, China has already deciphered Japan's secret telegrams in advance through "backward" technology, and relayed to the United States that even if the United States does not believe in China's intelligence, then its own deciphering ability and reconnaissance system have not gained a single point before the incident, which is also very suspicious. When the "Tiger Tiger" battle order was issued, the first wave of Japanese fighters took off from the aircraft carrier was 183, and the aircraft carrier at this time was only 200 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor, and the battle warning at this time was not too late, but the US military did not make any defensive action.
Judging from the warships destroyed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, such as the "OKLAHOMA", "West Virginia", "Arizona" and "Maryland", although these warships are the main battleships, they belong to the old warships that have been in service for a long time, and the aircraft carriers of the US Pacific Fleet are not in port, and the "Enterprise" aircraft carrier is also symbolically dispatched to fight when it returns. The U.S. side should have suffered the most losses from hundreds of fighters at Hickham, Hullier and Ford Island. Therefore, roosevelt used small losses to win domestic support for the declaration of war on Japan.
Whether or not this was Roosevelt's conspiracy, the direct consequence of the Pearl Harbor incident was to cause the United States to enter the war and form an international pattern of allied forces against the Axis powers, which successfully broke Hitler's strategic layout, so after learning that Japan, a pig teammate, provoked the United States, Hitler's anger was in stark contrast to Churchill's joy, and when the world thought that the Japanese were pigs, only the Japanese themselves were still complacent about the victory at Pearl Harbor.