WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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The US united in a desire to defeat Japan and the Axis Alliance.
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Numerous battleships were destroyed and hundreds of people were killed.
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Pearl Harbor was completely destroyed.
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Hundreds of American planes beyond the harbor were destroyed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its most significant consequence was the entrance of the United States into World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pearl Harbor attack severely crippled U.S. naval and air strength in the Pacific. However, of the eight battleships, all but the Arizona and Oklahoma were eventually repaired and returned to service, and the Japanese failed to destroy the important oil storage facilities on the island.
Detailed explanation-3: -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 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on December 8, most Pacific Coast radio stations went live to Washington to cover Franklin Roosevelt’s speech to a joint session of Congress. Roosevelt announced that the attack on Pearl Harbor was “a day that would live in infamy, ” and he asked Congress for a declaration of war.