Exercises on the attack on Pearl Harbor

Who was the important member of Japan's military leadership who, despite being against a war against the United States (preferring a diplomatic resolution), was responsible for planning the Japanese attack against the Pearl Harbor Naval Base?

a) Admiral Chuichu Nagumo

b) Emperor Hirohito

c) Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto

d) General Hideki Tojo

e) General Shiro Ishii

Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto was totally against a war against the United States, as he claimed that Japan had no means of making victory possible. What was Yamamoto's way of winning the war against the United States?

a) Yamamoto believed that only a short and intense war would be able to force the United States to accept the terms imposed by Japan.

b) Yamamoto believed that a long and exhausting war would be ideal as it would weaken US industrial production.

c) Yamamoto believed that victory would only be possible if Japan started to receive the supplies promised by Hitler during the signing of the Tripartite Pact in 1940.

d) Yamamoto believed that the development of nuclear weapons would be vital to coerce the surrender of the United States.

e) Yamamoto believed that the invasion of the West Coast would be essential to, together with the Japanese community installed there, begin the conquest of the United States.

In 1940, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan invaded Indochina to prevent troops led by Chiang Kai-shek from receiving supplies sent by the United States to the Chinese. What action did the United States take next?

a) Create a new route to send supplies to the Chinese through Tibet.

b) To ally with the communists led by Mao Zedong.

c) Diplomatically disapprove of Chinese action.

d) Urge France, which controlled the region, to respond militarily to Japan.

e) Imposing an embargo on oil imports into Japan.

What was the direct and immediate consequence of the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor?

a) The United States' declaration of war on Japan.

b) The alliance between the Soviet Union and Japan, both ideologically adversaries of the United States.

c) The receipt of a large financial contribution from Germany.

d) The peace agreement signed between Japan and China.

e) The resignation of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Letter C

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was planned by Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, who was a fervent advocate that the rivalry with the United States be resolved diplomatically. Admiral Yamamoto argued that Japan lacked the industrial and military capacity to face the Americans in a long-term war. However, the diplomatic posture defended by him was not well regarded by a large part of Japan's military leadership.

Letter A

With the beginning of the war between Japan and the United States, Admiral Yamamoto defended an energetic action by the Japanese army with attacks of great intensity to force a diplomatic exit with the United States. He claimed, based on the difference in industrial capacity between the two countries, that the greater industrial capacity of the United States would put Japan at a great disadvantage.

Letter E

The invasion of Indochina was carried out by Japan with the aim of closing the routes that Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist troops used to receive supplies sent by the United States during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the invasion of Indochina, the United States imposed an embargo on oil imports as a way of limiting the Japanese's wartime capabilities.

Letter A

The direct and immediate consequence of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the declaration of war by the United States on Japan, which took place the following day, December 8, 1941. With that, the United States began its entry into World War II.