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Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor

In response to the U.S. oil embargo

The Japanese found the Americans rude

They wanted the coal found in Hawaii

The Japanese thought the U.S. wouldn't care

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Destroying the Base at Pearl Harbor Would Mean Japan Controlled the Pacific. ... Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would drive the United States out of isolation and into World War II, a conflict that would end with Japan's surrender after the devastating nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

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Answer: it was in response to U.S oil embargo

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