Modern Era · North America · War
1941
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
At dawn on a Sunday, three hundred fifty Japanese carrier aircraft struck the American Pacific Fleet at anchor in Hawaii. Battleships burned and capsized; twenty-four hundred sailors died. The next day a grim President Roosevelt asked Congress for war. Within four days Germany had declared war on America. The conflict was now truly global.
In context
Also in 1941 (6 other events on record)
- Operation Barbarossa · Europe · War
- Japan strikes across the Pacific · East Asia · War
- Singapore campaign begins · Southeast Asia · War
- Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech · North America · War
- Atlantic Charter issued · North America · Politics
- Bismarck sunk · Europe · War
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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