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Parent topics
- History of Japan: see section, "Economy and empire; war and defeat: 1912-1950"
- World War II [r]: War between the Allies (most notably the UK, US and Soviet Union) and the Axis (principally Germany and Japan) 1939–1945. [e]
Subtopics
- Mitsuo Fuchida [r]: Imperial Japanese Navy aviation officer who was the tactical commander of the air attack in the Battle of Pearl Harbor [e]
- Minoru Genda [r]: Imperial Japanese Navy staff officer in the Second World War; primary tactical planner of the Battle of Pearl Harbor [e]
- Husband Kimmel [r]: U.S. Naval officer who was the commander of the Pacific Fleet at the Battle of Pearl Harbor; relieved of command. [e]
- Dorie Miller [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Short [r]: U.S. Army lieutenant general commanding the Hawaiian Department at the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Relieved of duty [e]
- USS Arizona [r]: U.S. battleship that exploded and sank from Japanese air attack at the Battle of Pearl Harbor, with the greatest loss of life at any point attacked. [e]
Other related topics
- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]
- Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. [e]
- Battle of Taranto [r]: A devastating 1940 airstrike by British carrier aircraft against Italian warships in the harbor of Taranto; demonstrated that aerial torpedoes could work in shallow water and proved the concept used by the Japanese in the Battle of Pearl Harbor [e]
- Communications intelligence [r]: The subset of SIGINT concerned with signals intended to be intelligible to human beings, in the form of voice, messages, or images. [e]
- Counterforce [r]: Military targeting doctrine, historically associated with nuclear warfare and now with precision-guided munitions. [e]
- MAGIC (cryptanalysis) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edwin Layton [r]: U.S. Pacific Fleet chief intelligence officer during the Second World War [e]
- George C. Marshall [r]: Army Chief of Staff (WWII), Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense (Korean War)and sponsor of the Marshall Plan. [e]
- Chuichi Nagumo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chester W. Nimitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Preemption (military) [r]: An attack launched against an opponent that the attacker believes intends to directly attack him in the short term; sometimes called a spoiling attack [e]
- Preventive attack [r]: A doctrine in which an actor uses military force on an opponent who is not believed to be preparing an attack on the actor using prevention, but whose activities, such as taking control of territory or building weapons of mass destruction pose a long-term threat to the critical interests of the actor. The attack may signal the start of a war, or be a strategic move within an existing war. [e]
- Radar [r]: A contraction of radio direction and ranging, used for detecting and tracking targets, navigation, imagery, and special applications. [e]
- Midget submarine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Surprise attack [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Nevada [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Isoroku Yamamoto [r]: Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy, commanding Combined Fleet in World War II; planned the Battle of Pearl Harbor although opposed to war with the United States [e]
