WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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Soviet Union
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France
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Great Britain
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United States of America
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States placed an embargo on scrap-metal shipments to Japan and closed the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. That hit Japan’s economy particularly hard because 74.1% of Japan’s scrap iron came from the United States in 1938, and 93% of Japan’s copper in 1939 came from the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. The result: Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil.
Detailed explanation-3: -On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered this “Day of Infamy Speech.” Immediately afterward, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II.