Pearl Harbour
- Dec. 7th 1941- Attack on US Naval Base in Hawaii
- Not intended to put USA into War
- they thought U.S. would be too "soft" to reclaim that territory
- Objective: sink and immobilize US battleships and carriers
- Eight battleships were damaged, two were lost and three were absent during the rais.
- It almost succeeded
Japanese Failures:
- Oil depots weren't destroyed
- Aircraft carriers are absent
- Submarine pens were not destroyed
- USA declares war on Japan but not on Germany
- Then Hitler declares war on USA on Dec. 10th