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By the 19th century, the European powers had captured half the world, but there were still some countries that were not ready to bow before Europe, one such country was Japan which openly opposed the increasing European colonization in the world, and The Europeans, who considered themselves world conquerors by force, were defeated, but in the race to end European colonization, Japan itself became an aggressive country and later started colonizing many countries. Meanwhile, countries like Britain France Japan had started driving out the countries that had considered Asia as their home. Countries like Russia were also forced to flee in front of Japan. To stop Japan's growing power in the world, America showed some stubbornness, and then Japan started fighting against America. 26 November 1941 was the day when Japan set out with six aircraft carriers, two huge battleships, and hundreds of aircraft in preparation for a major attack. The American Naval Base World Harbor became the victim of this surprise attack in the US. The Pacific Fleet had deployed its forces. In this sudden attack, the Japanese aircraft rained bombs on the American Navy indiscriminately. Before the American Navy could do anything, the Japanese Air Force took the lives of thousands of people there. Due to this attack, the US Pacific fleet was destroyed, and many battleships and more than 300 aircraft were destroyed. America was bleeding due to this attack by Japan and then America entered the Second World War, but here the question arises of after all Japan Why did America attack Pole Harbor? What did America do due to which Japan had to make such a big attack? Why did the rivalry between America and Japan happen due to which Pole Harbor and Japan were destroyed? Imperialism was at its peak till the 20th century. European countries had reached there to expand their empire and had captured all the countries of Asia and Africa. Many countries from Africa to Asia were under the rule of Europeans. All the precious raw materials from the colonized countries were sent to Europe and their Manufactured items were brought back from India and sold at high prices in the same country. On one hand, the Industrial Revolution was increasing in Britain and France, and their financial situation was continuously growing, but on the other hand, the economy of the colonized countries was deteriorating day by day. Colonization was increasing, and connectivity was also increasing in countries around the world, even the news of a small incident in one country easily reached other country, hence gradually the people of the colonized countries started becoming aware of their rights and It was another countrythis region that protests against European colonizers were also seen in many countries. There were some countries in Asia and Africa where Britain and France were failing to establish their colonies. In time, those countries started increasing their strength. Because he knew that whenever the Europeans would get a chance, they would go to any extent for their benefit. Japan, situated in Southern Asia, was one such country that was against European colonization from the beginning. To say that Japan was a small country, but Due to its actions, Japan became a big headache for the powerful countries of the world when Britain and France established their colonies in half of Asia. Japan did not even give them the freedom to enter their country. Till 1850, Japan sealed all its borders. Neither any person from another country could enter Japan nor any person from Japan could go out. In time, Japan also understood that if it wanted to save its country from becoming a European colony, then Japan was very important to strengthen its financial and military power, hence, at the beginning of the 20th century, Japan started increasing its resources. Japan, which kept itself isolated for years, has now freed itself from the world through self-isolation. Now Japan is Britain's Japan begins to end its colonial monopoly. It took over many of Britain's colonies in Southern Asia and was about to win the war when Japan attacked America's Pearl Harbor. At the same time, America also entered World War 2, which ended with the atomic explosion in Japan, but what was the compulsion that Japan had to attack America's naval base? To understand this whole story, we have to First of all, we have to understand the history of Japan. In the year 18680, Meiji became the new Emperor of Japan. He ended the shogunate military dictatorship that had been going on for years in Japan and once again started the monarchy system. Before this, there was the Sako Ku policy in Japan. This policy was implemented which meant that neither any foreigner could enter Japan nor could anyone go out of Japan. In a way, Japan was isolated. This policy was specifically implemented by the Shogunate government to prevent European countries from entering Japan. This policy did not apply to the surrounding countries, for example, import and export between China and Japan continued through Nagasaki, but for European countries, the border of Japan was completely sealed, and only the Dutch and Chinese merchants were allowed to reach Nagasaki Port. Apart from these, Japan was a completely closed territory for any other Asian or European country. This was the same time when European powers were occupying weak countries all over the world.
In a way, this was also a technique for Japan's protection, but the Europeans and Americans did not like this technique of Japan to protect themselves, they wanted the same way the whole world had opened doors for them. Japan should also accept their influence and give them freedom to trade in their country, but Japan was not ready to open its doors for trade at any cost, so American President Milto decided to forcefully open the borders of Japan. July 8, 18533: Four ships arrive near Tokyo Bay with a large amount of weapons and guns on board and send a message to the Shogunate government of Japan to open its ports for trade with America or prepare for war. The USA, under the leadership of Commodore Matthew C Perry, gave a list of demands to Japan in which he said that Japan should open its ports to the US and provide security to all US ships that have been damaged and broken. He also demanded supplies for his ships. Next year, Perry reached Japan with more forces and nine ships increased his list of demands, and forced Japan to sign the Perry Treaty, although Japan had to agree to the Perry Treaty for Western countries. Japan's dictator Takuwa Shogunate and his followers were not ready to open, but they did not have a strong enough army to deny the demands of the US, which is why Japan started entering in 18544. In this way, before the Meiji rule, 18552 was the Emperor. After Meiji ascended the throne, changes had started taking place in Japan. Socially, economically, and politically, Japan started developing in every way. Meiji knew that Japan could not progress by remaining isolated, hence Japan was also important for those European countries of the world. The doors were opened for trade, and Japan also started importing things from other countries, due to this, industrialization started inside Japan too. Japan started buying rock cotton from other countries, using which clothes were manufactured in Japan's industries. And they were exported globally. By the turn of the 20th century, Japan had come in the list of top countries in the world in the export of cotton clothes. Gradually, Japan's exports were spreading all over the world. As Japan was progressing, Similarly, Meiji's ambitions were also increasing. Now under the leadership of Meiji, Japan needed to colonize other countries to establish itself as a globally great nation because it was due to this colonization that European countries gradually became world leaders. -Slowly, Japan started missing the occupation of European countries in Asia. Now Meiji started increasing the military power of Japan to strengthen his country. Soon Japan's army became one of the top militaries in the world. Now Japan considers itself the leader of Asia. Wanted to become a leader but all this was possible only when the influence of European countries could be reduced, hence Japan started making plans to remove European countries from its way. With the increase in power, Japan started considering Britain, France, and America as its rivals. That's why the colonization European countries were doing, now Japan also started making other countries its colonies and Japan started this plan from Asia. In the year 1876, Japan forced Korea to transfer its ports to Japan. This was just like what America had done to Japan. At that time, Japan's stature had increased so much globally that no country wanted to take direct enmity with Japan, hence Korea was forced to open the doors to Japan. At that time, Korea was also a very important trade partner of China. In Korea, which borders China in the north, most of the imports and exports were coming from China. After the entry of Japan, China's trade started decreasing, hence conflicts started between the two countries, but This conflict did not last long, soon both countries understood that to earn profit by trading in Korea, both would have to come together, so China and Japan together signed an agreement in 1885 which was known as Tin Sin Convention. Both countries were allowed to trade in Korea, but a condition was also kept that no country in Japan and China would try to control Korea by sending its army to Korea, due to the increasing Chinese influence in Korea, The people of Korea were troubled by Japanese influence. Korean businessmen also did not like the influence of Japan and China. They did not want foreigners to dominate Korea's natural resources, hence they were continuously demanding freedom. Korean Emperor Japan Russia and China were formed due to the influence of all three, hence the demand of the Korean people and businessmen was not having any effect. The result was that the treaty with Japan was also broken in which it was said that no country could establish its territory inside Korea. This action of China will not send an army. Japan did not like this. Japan felt that China was increasing its influence on Korea by interfering in Korea's internal affairs. Due to this, Japan got enraged and attacked China. This war continued till 5 July 18947. The first war fought between China and Japan was known as the First Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese army, full of confidence, rescued the Chinese army.
A Chinese Emperor had to flee the field. This war proved very costly for China. It was forced to take possession of [Music] Taiwan and the Pescador Islands of Taiwan, as well as the Liaodong Peninsula of Manchuria to Japan. This marked the beginning of Japan's entry into colonization. After occupying these territories of China, Japan did not stop increasing its influence. Japan's eyes were gradually falling on other parts of Korea where at that time Russia had established its foothold, just like Britain and France, Russians The empire was also trying to establish itself at the international level. Japan started increasing its trade in the areas of Korea and Manchuria. Now Russia, which was already trading in Manchuria and Korea, saw a decline in its trade after Japan's entry. Therefore, the conflicts that Japan had with China inside Korea had now started with Russia. Gradually, Russia started becoming an obstacle in the way of Japan. Japanese traders were being driven away from Manchuria and Russia's influence on Manchuria was increasing. Seeing the influence, Japan saw the benefit of making a treaty with Russia. In 1903, the Japanese government made an offer to Russia that if it wanted, it could occupy Manchuria but it would have to be completely separated from Korea, but Russia was also among those who agreed. He rejected both the offers of Japan and continued his influence in both Korea and Manchuria. In 1904, Japan suddenly attacked Russia. A very fierce war took place between Russia and Japan. In this war, more than 1 lakh people of both countries died. The Japanese forces badly destroyed the Russian military. Many of Russia's Pacific fleets were destroyed and many were captured by Japan. Overall, Japan was victorious and Russia had to suffer heavy losses. In 1905, American President Theodore Roosevelt warned Japan and Made a peace treaty with Russia, which is known as the Treaty of Ports Mouth. Its impact was that Russia had to accept Japan's influence in Manchuria and Korea and Russia had to give its Sakhalin Island to Japan. Victory in this war. After 1910, Japan was considered to be the most powerful country in Asia. The world had come to know that the Japanese Army could fight with any country in the world. After this, Japan continued to increase its influence on Korea and Manchuria. By the year 1910, the whole of Korea came under the control of Japan. Now Japan had its eyes on Manchuria. By the year 1931, Japan had captured Manchuria. America had become distraught due to Japan's occupation of Manchuria. Suddenly, Japan's growing power started troubling America, hence Manchuria. However, the issue of Japan's occupation was raised in the League of Nations. Now the League of Nations called Japan's occupation wrong, and then in response, the representative of Japan accused the League of Nations of discriminating. According to Japan, the League of Nations has discriminated against European countries in Asia. But the occupation was justified and when Japan did the same thing, it was judged wrong, hence Japan left the membership of the League of Nations in the same meeting. Japan was continuously maintaining an aggressive attitude against China, due to which the USA was in trouble for a long time. Was angry with Japan since 1937, but Japan's stand was that they could not grow economically without geo-expansion, hence, they invited Asian countries so that they could enrich Japan by using their resources. On this stand, Japan seceded in 1937. Sino-Japanese war was declared in which millions of Chinese were killed. America, expressing its displeasure due to this war, imposed many economic sanctions and a trade embargo on Japan. They thought that after these sanctions, Japan would stop its aggressive colonization and invasions, but the opposite happened. Japan became more aggressive and somewhere the war between the two countries now became an NBA table. After occupying Korea and Manchuria, Japan's strength was increasing day by day. Gradually, Japan decided that it would conquer the whole of Asia. With the same dream, in 1940, Japan attacked the French territory of French Indo-China, which is today known as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. And expels the French military from there. By the year 1941, along with French Indo-China, all the Korea, Taiwan, Chinese, and many islands and territories of the Russian Empire had come under the control of Japan. As Japan's power was increasing. Japan's occupation of the world was also increasing, but the biggest role behind Japan's strength was the Japanese economy and the Japanese economy was the industry base. Natural resources within Japan were negligible, hence Japan imported most of the things from America and Europe. Japan used to import oil from America in 70 to 80. America was already not like Japan's growing empire. Several meetings were held by America with the Japanese government on this subject, but despite this, Japan started expanding its empire in Asia. When Japan did not stop its expansion, America started imposing economic sanctions against Japan. America started cutting the things that Japan used to import from America.
Steel ion and copper from America had stopped coming into Japan, but Japan was walking with the dream of Great Asia, hence even after America closed down copper ion and steel, Japan did not stop moving forward, the result of which was that American Kaa also stopped supplying oil to Japan and on America's insistence, Dutch East Indies also refused to supply oil to Japan. As soon as the supply of oil stopped, the situation in Japan quickly started deteriorating, industries started closing down, military The vehicles and aircraft used in the war came to the verge of collapse because the relations between America and Japan were good due to import and export, but as soon as the US imposed the embargo policy, Emperor Hirohito waged war on America with his country's military. Told to prepare, relations between the two countries had soured but no one in America had declared war on behalf of Japan. Japan wanted to completely occupy Asia but America's sanctions inside the country had made Japan Japan's economy completely come to a standstill. In such a situation, Japan made a new strategy because at that time the Second World War was also going on. Most of the countries of Europe were entangled with Germany and Italy, hence Japan had to help the European countries. There was no more threat than America. Only America was becoming a headache for Japan. America was the only country that was weakening Japan without fighting, so Japan decided to teach America a lesson. Japan planned to attack America. By doing this, it would destroy America's military and Singapore would capture areas like the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies where oil and natural resources were available. America had stationed most of its jet worships and aircraft carriers at L'Harbor Port of Hawaii Island here. America used to keep an eye on the countries of Asia and Africa and when needed, it could easily send its army for any operation, hence Japan planned to attack America's Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 from 8 am. Till then everything was going on normally, some soldiers of the US Force were brushing their teeth while some were on the phone with their wives or girlfriends, but little did they know that in a short time, havoc was going to befall them. However, at that time, it was the Second World. The war was going on and America was secretly helping the Allied countries, but the danger of attack on America was negligible, but despite this, Commander in Chief in Pearl Harbor, Hasen E. Kimmel had received instructions to remain active but this No one knew that Japan would target Pole Harbor. There was very little water around Hawaii Island, so it was a challenge for Japan because Japan was going to use torpedoes in this attack, which needed more water to hit the right target. Because they go to a certain depth after falling, Japan had designed their torpedoes in a different way which did not need to go down much after being released from the sky. Here, Japan's six aircraft carriers were moving towards the island. According to the plan of Marshal of Japan Admiral Ijiroku Yamamoto, the Japanese forces were going to attack in three waves. On 7th December 1941, at 7:55 in the morning, the Japanese forces had reached near Paul Harbor. The first wave. Commander Mitsuo Fuda along with the Japanese Air Force attacked Pearl Harbor with the slogan Tora Tora. First, the Japanese Air Force decided to destroy American aircraft so that no aircraft could attack the Japanese force from above. Military aircraft were standing in a line. In one stroke, the Japanese Air Force destroyed all the aircraft and airfields. After destroying the aircraft and airfields, now the main target was the battleships and aircraft carriers, hence the Japanese Air Force turned its attention towards that direction. Battleships also Japanese aircraft were lined up together and started raining torpedoes and bombs from the sky. There was devastation all around but the most damage was done when a bomb hit the American USS Arizona ship and landed in the area of Pearl Harbor where Weapons were kept. There was a massive explosion in the ammunition depot. The entire area was destroyed in no time. Pearl Harbor was destroyed to a large extent in the first wave itself. After the attack, the Japanese military started returning. It lasted an hour and 15 minutes. A total of 19 American ships were destroyed in this attack, including eight battleships, more than 300 aircraft were destroyed, 2403 people were killed, and more than 200 people were injured, but even after this attack, Japan's Combine Fleet Chief Sorok Yama Motu was not very happy because the Japanese army could not destroy even a single American aircraft carrier. After all, at that time all the aircraft carriers of America were in other places. The Second World War had started on September 1, 1930, but this time America used its You were kept neutral. American civilians were also divided into two parts amid the World War. However, in the meantime, America was supplying weapons to the Allied countries. In other words, America used to help these countries by taking money, but America's inclination was also Allies. America was enraged after the attack on Pole Harbor. Despite there being no direct development in the war, America was infuriated by this attack on itself, due to which the very next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan.
War was declared: After America entered into the war, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill also declared war against Japan because before this Britain was fighting a war only with Germany and Italy, in response to this on 11th December 1941, Germany and Italy also came in support of Japan and declared war against America. America changed the entire direction of the war as soon as it entered World War Two. Hitler, who was rapidly capturing the whole of Europe, committed suicide on 30th April 1945 after seeing Germany's defeat. The losing Allies had returned to the war. America America entered the operation till then. Until Japan was destroyed by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
