USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Why was the bombing of Pearl Harbor a significant event during World War II?

(A) It was the first use of nuclear weapons in war.

(B) It put an end to the lend lease program.

(C) It prevented Japan from invading the United States.

(D) ** It caused the United States to get involved in the war.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.

Concept note-2: -On December 7, 1941, a date that President Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed would “live in infamy, ” the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted a surprise aerial assault on Pearl Harbor. This unprovoked attack brought the United States into World War II, as it immediately declared war on Japan.

Concept note-3: -The December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour was among the most significant moments of the War-it signalled the official entry of the US into the hostilities, which eventually led to the dropping of nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Concept note-4: -On December 7, 1941, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War.

Concept note-5: -President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor in 1939. This move was a threat to Japan, who wanted to expand in the Pacific. Military leaders and politicians saw a war between the U.S. and Japan as inevitable, with the solution being to attack first. Japan did just that.