Pearl Harbor

(proper noun)

A United States Navy deep-water naval base in Hawaii and the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attack on it by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.

Related Terms

Examples of Pearl Harbor in the following topics:

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    • The attack on Pearl Harbor, a surprise military strike conducted by Japan on December 7, 1941, forced the United States to formally enter World War II.
    • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
    • After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War.
    • However the day before the proposal was delivered (November 27 in Japan), on November 26 in Japan, the main Japanese attack fleet left port for Pearl Harbor.
    • Describe both the motivations and the effects of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • FDR's Third Term

    • Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, destroying or damaging 16 warships, including most of the fleet's battleships, and killing almost 3000 American military personnel and civilians .
    • Roosevelt's third term was dominated by WWII, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

  • Internment of Japanese Americans

    • Suspicion of and racial prejudice toward Japanese-Americans after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the incarceration of around 110,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese residing in the United States.
    • Relocation and internment occurred in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
    • The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 led military and political leaders to suspect that Imperial Japan was preparing a full-scale attack on the West Coast of the United States.
    • Civilian and military officials had concerns about the loyalty of the ethnic Japanese after the Niihau Incident which immediately followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, when a civilian Japanese national and two Hawaiian-born ethnic Japanese on the island of Ni'ihau violently freed a downed and captured Japanese naval airman, attacking their fellow Ni'ihau islanders in the process.

  • Coral Sea and Midway

    • Between June 4 and 7, 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively deflected an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.
    • The operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
    • Four Japanese aircraft carriers-- Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu, all part of the six carrier force to launch the attack on Pearl Harbor six months earlier-- were sunk for a cost of one American aircraft carrier and a destroyer.

  • Leapfrogging to Tokyo

    • On December 7, 1941, after failing to resolve a dispute with the United States over Japan's actions in China and French Indochina, the Japanese attacked the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
    • Attacks on British Empire possessions in the Pacific, beginning with an attack on Hong Kong almost simultaneous with the Pearl Harbor attack, brought the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand into the conflict.
    • Roosevelt (middle), General MacArthur (left), and Admiral Nimitz (right) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, July 26, 1944, National Archives and Records Administration.

  • Nimitz in the Central Pacific

    • Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Chester W.
    • Assuming command at the most critical period of the war in the Pacific, Nimitz, despite the losses from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the shortage of ships, planes, and supplies, successfully organized his forces to halt the Japanese advance.
    • In January 1945, Nimitz moved the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet forward from Pearl Harbor to Guam for the remainder of the war.

  • The "Arsenal of Democracy"

    • The announcement was made a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Germany occupied much of Europe and threatened Britain.
    • After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941—less than a year after the Arsenal of Democracy address—the United States entered the war.

  • Japanese Aggression

    • The invasion began what would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War, which after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War.
    • Facing an oil embargo by the United States as well as dwindling domestic reserves, the Japanese government decided to attack Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, leading to significant losses for U.S. navy and air forces. and  The objective of the attack was to incapacitate the U.S. long enough for Japan to establish its Southeast Asian empire and defensible buffer zones.
    • Following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese launched offensives against Allied forces in South East Asia, with simultaneous attacks on Hong Kong, British Malaya and the Philippines.

  • Groupthink

    • Groupthink tends to occur on committees and in large organizations, and Janis originally studied the groupthink phenomena in historical cases, such as the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Vietnam War, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.