Pearl Harbor The attacks of Pearl Harbor were very random and very harmful to the US. You will see the damage, the good and the bad throughout these attacks. The leaders of the armed forces of Japan become conscious of the fact that America's marine strength was one of the biggest threats of the United States to the Japanese armed forces. The Commander-in-chief of the Japanese navy, began to plan out a shock attack on …showed first 75 words of 1021 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1021 total…navy, and more importantly, it made Americans very mad so that they would want to go into war. Virtually every man and women played a part, no matter how small, in the war effort. Younger men wanted to fight so badly that they lied about their age in order to enlist. The drastic military build up lifted the country out of its Great Depression. The US had entered the war with one intention- to win.