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==Pearl Harbor is on the south coast of Oahu island. The Pacific naval base was about 22,000 acres in size at the time. The American fleet was under the command of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and the ground troops were commanded by Lt. General Walter C. Short. Pearl Harbor was the hub of American naval power. The harbor had recently been designated as the American Pacific Fleet's new home base because of concern over Japan's increasing aggressiveness.==

==**1. It was the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II.** **2. It was a Sunday morning and many of the soldiers were sleeping and were completely unaware of the problem that was soon to be upon them all.** **3. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan was supposed to be a preventive attack used to scare the United States from interfering with Japans plan to wage war against Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States. Although this was a very good strategic victory for the Japanese, they used huge amounts of resources for this one attack.** **4. There had been a declaration of war sent to the United States by the Japanese before the attack even happened, but the United States thought that it was an ending to negotiations. The mistake was deadly.**==