His 125 Week 8 Checkpoint World War 2 Timeline

Checkpoint World War 2 Timeline

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1. “Jan. 27, 1941: The U.S. ambassador to Japan, wires Washington that he has learned that Japan is planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. No one in Washington believes the information. Most senior American military experts believe the Japanese would attack Manila in the Philippine Islands if war broke out”

If the American government would have listened to their ambassador when he told them this it would of saved a lot of the lives lost a t pearl harbor on Dec 7, 1941

2. Sept. 24, 1942: The "bomb plot" message from Japanese naval intelligence to Japan's consul general in Honolulu requesting a grid of exact locations of ships in Pearl Harbor is deciphered. The information is not shared with the Hawaii's Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short.

If this information would have been shared with the ones in command in Hawaii, they could have taken steps to protect our boats and service men/women that were there. They could of starting changing the mooring of the ships to different locations when they were in port.

3. Night of Dec. 6, 1941 Morning of Dec. 7, 1941: U.S. intelligence decodes a message pointing to Sunday morning as a deadline for some kind of Japanese action. The message is delivered to the Washington high command before 9 a.m. Washington time, more than 4 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the message is not forwarded to the Pearl Harbor commanders and finally arrives only after the attack has begun.

If this message would have been delivered as soon as they decoded it our troops could have been ready for the attack and we wouldn’t of lost all the people we did that day. Our government was slacked and tried to blame it on the officers in command in Pearl Harbor in my opinion because it was Washington’s fought for not telling them.

4. The first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at approximately 8:15 a.m. Nicknamed “Little Boy, the bomb is released...