Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]December 7th, 1941.

[00:00:02]A peaceful Sunday morning in Hawaii.

[00:00:05]Families asleep.

[00:00:07]Soldiers start but within minutes everything changed. Japanese warplanes filled the sky. The attack had begun.

[00:00:15]At 7:55 a.m. Waves of Japanese aircraft bombarded the naval base.

[00:00:22]Battleships burned. The The USS Arizona was torn apart. Over a thousand sailors were killed instantly. The deadliest day in American history.

[00:00:33]The next day, President Roosevelt addressed the nation.

[00:00:37]December 7th, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

[00:00:43]America united. The United States officially entered World War II. The world would never be the same.

[00:00:52]Pearl Harbor changed history forever. A symbol of sacrifice. A memorial to courage. Memory lives on.