Japanese reasons for attacking the U.S.

1. President roosevelt cut off oil shipments to Japan in July, 1941

2. The U.S. government had sent aid to strengthen the Chinese resistance

3. The United States was being a jerk. We cut off their resources when they really needed them.

4. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the one who said to bomb Hawaii

5. Japan was hoping to catch the European colonial powers and the United States by surprise.

6. They wanted to show that they were still powerful