Before the "Attack on Pearl Harbor" Japan was at war with China since the mid-1937. They desperately needed oil and other raw materials. It became harder and harder for them to get these products. Everyone seemed to be cutting off the supply. President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred the American fleet to Pearl Harbor to deter the Japanese. In 1941 the western nation stopped the trade with Japan. On November 20, 1941 Nomura and Kurusu present a proposal to …showed first 75 words of 255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 255 total…to attack the US battleships and airplane hangers when not expected.They flew over and attacked the flight line. Americans were scrambling to get to their planes and get into the air to fight back, but they were shot in the process. One man came out alone to a machine gun and kept shooting at the planes coming in and out. He truly was a hero that day. But they just kept coming so quickly.