No. The US and Japan were negotiating but not for peace.
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The United States & Japan were already in negotiations in Washington, D.C. (which began in August 1941), prior to the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941 on the United States at Hawaii (incl. Pearl Harbor), the Philippines, Guam & Wake Island. At the same time as the Japanese attack on the US, the Japanese attacked the British (at Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong & Borneo) and later the Dutch in Asia.
These negotiations concerned the Japanese military’s brutal aggression against China and the resulting US sanctions taken on trade with Japan. The Japanese diplomatic position never changed from that of demanding that the United States accept the Japanese conquest of China and that the United States should not interfere in Japanese military actions. The Japanese wanted economic sanctions, against them, lifted by the United States, but offered nothing for it. Negotiations were doomed to fail, except that a small group of misguided intellectuals (American clergymen & some Japanese business interests) provided false & misleading information (about Japanese diplomatic positions) that lead to false hope in a diplomatic compromise. By 1941, the Japanese government secretly undertook to use the negotiations as a delaying tactic, while preparing & planning for war against the United States, Britain & Commonwealth, and the Netherlands. Even the Japanese negotiators in Washington, DC were not told of the futility of their efforts
The primary reason for the Japanese attack on the US was the Japanese Army's reckless obsession with their on-going brutal conquest of China. The United States had been taking diplomatic and economic steps against Japan for several years to convince (or force) the Japanese to end their war of conquest in Asia. The Japanese Army actually controlled the Japanese Government since the early 1930's. The Japanese Army refused to end its war of conquest & extreme brutality in China.
Beyond China, the Japanese Army had plans to take advantage of the weakness of the British, French, Dutch & Soviet Union in Asia because of Hitler's conquests in Europe. The Japanese wanted to be free of American interference, and create a vast Asian empire that would have eventually included China, eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, & New Guinea; and possibly India.
The Japanese military thought that the best way to keep the United States from interfering in their plans in Asia, was to deliver a surprise attack on various US bases throughout the Pacific to do as much damage to the US military capability in the Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, they intended to sink as many battleships, cruisers & aircraft carriers as possible. At Manila they intended to follow-up with an invasion and capture of the Philippines. At Wake Island they intended to seize the island. The Japanese also attacked the bases, ships & troops of the British Empire. All this was intended to persuade the United States & Britain to negotiate a settlement giving the Japanese most of the western Pacific territories, and most of Asia. They hoped that the US & Britain would not want to fight a prolonged & costly war in Asia to liberate what territory the Japanese could capture in the first six months of the war.
Germany invaded Poland before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Even before the U.S. went to war and Pearl Harbor happened FDR was giving Britain ships and war supplies under the Lend-Lease Act. No one really knows if they would have gone to war but eventually, something would have happened.
They did not they just temporarily dissapeared of off radar and we dont know why - the ? answerer
December 7, 1941 -- just before 8am, the first of five waves of Japanese planes attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
The US had banned the sale of oil to the Japanese. It was one of the commodities that were in short supply in that part of the war. The Japanese felt it was tantamount to declaring war on them.
Germany invaded Poland before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The japanese refusal to withdraw from China.
Even before the U.S. went to war and Pearl Harbor happened FDR was giving Britain ships and war supplies under the Lend-Lease Act. No one really knows if they would have gone to war but eventually, something would have happened.
They did not they just temporarily dissapeared of off radar and we dont know why - the ? answerer
December 7, 1941 -- just before 8am, the first of five waves of Japanese planes attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Japan did issue a declaration of war to the US, with the idea that Pearl Harbor would be attacked before defenses could be mobilized. It backfired on them terribly because the declaration was not translated from Japanese to English until after the attack. If Japan had declared war and then attacked Pearl Harbor the next day, damage would have been much less and Japanese losses much higher. The success of the attack, on which Japanese strategy in the Pacific was based, depended on surprise.
The US had banned the sale of oil to the Japanese. It was one of the commodities that were in short supply in that part of the war. The Japanese felt it was tantamount to declaring war on them.
Pearl Harbor was attacked on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The Japanese army had been planning the surprise attack for some time. The United States was not at war with Japan, and not involved in WWII, so no one expected this. Just before 8am, a fleet of Japanese bomber planes called Zeros attacked. They were assisted by small submarines that snuck into the harbor. The attack was fast, brutal and effective. American ships and planes were all close together, making for easy targets. A second wave of attackers hit Pearl Harbor, causing even more extensive damage. More than 2,000 people were killed, and over 1,200 others were injured. A large portion of the American fleet was destroyed. December 7 has been known as a day that will 'live in infamy' ever since. Following this attack, America declared war on the Japanese Empire. Soon after, the country became involved in WWII.
The Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, was an aerial assault on the U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a surprise attack that severely damaged the American naval fleet and led to the United States joining World War II.
Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii, which at the time was a US Territory. The Navy base at Pearl is still there. The main attack was against the ships and airfields on the island and several specific locations where attacked.
The US was attacked before declaring war in WW2, by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Does it make it right what Hitler was doing in Europe because the US declared war on them rather than vice versa ? Of course not.
Not friendly.