The Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise air raid by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force on the US naval base on Oahu Island in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. This attack caused the US to enter World War II on the side of the Allies. More than 2,400 Americans lost their lives in the attack, and six US ships were sunk or damaged. In the months before the attack, negotiations were held between the US and Japan over the future of the Pacific. Among the Japanese demands were the US ending its sanctions against Japan, stopping its aid to China, and allowing access to the resources of the Dutch East Indies. Japan, anticipating a negative response from the US, sent out attack groups in November 1941 before receiving the Hull note, a note from the US asking Japan to withdraw from China and French Indochina. Japan planned the attack as a preventive action. Their goal was to prevent the US Pacific Fleet from interfering with the military operations they planned against the colonies of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the US in Southeast Asia. The attack completely ruined the relations between the US and Japan, and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on December 8, 1941. Congress approved Roosevelt’s request and the US officially entered World War II. The attack caused great anger and devastation among the US public, but also strengthened national unity and solidarity. The US became the biggest supporter of the Allies and the biggest enemy of Japan. This NFT is an art piece that tells the historical significance of the Pearl Harbor attack. This NFT is designed as a memory of the US’s entry into World War II and the beginning of the struggle in the Pacific.
