Why did japan bomb pearl habour?
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was ordered to come up with a war plan that would knock the US out of the war for ‘a year, or two.” The high command thought that, with a swift, hard blow, and then several naval victories, America would lose its stomach for war, and offer Japan favorable terms for peace. Then they could grab the oil fields of what we now call Indonesia, which was the real reason for the war to begin with: oil. Yamamoto came up with the plan that hit Hawaii, Wake Island, Clark Field (Philippines) and Singapore simultaneously. Luckily for the US, the CVs (aircraft carriers) were out on maneuvers (practice) and the submarine base and fuel tank farms were not on the target lists. Yamamoto submitted his ingenious plan, which could have worked, but warned that these attacks would “wake a sleeping giant.” Yamamoto had been assigned as a Naval Attache to the US, and had lived in America for several years, learning to speak English and play poker. He warned that America could launch an
