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.
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