What Was The International Response To The Bombing Of Pearl Harbour?
There were a plethora of feelings toward the U.S. and the Japanese following the Pearl Harbor attack. Even within the U.S. there were a number of different feelings following the bombings. Some of the Axis nations believed the U.S. got just what they deserved. We had been attempting to avoid direct interaction in WWII, but we had been providing arms, men, ships, etc. through England for all the Allied nations. We were enjoying the increase of manufacturing and sales of all things military without a direct consequence for our actions. We were attempting to walk the tight-rope between the waring European and Asian nations. The Allied nations in Europe were in support of the feelings of the U.S. being blind sided by Japan. We had, not overtly done anything against the Japanese other than our State Department condemning their actions with respect to their treatment of their captives. On December 6, 1941, two envoys from Japan were in Washington as we attempted to create some understanding
