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His seeming ignorance of the strike must be examined against three possible explanations. One, FDR genuinely did not know that Pearl Harbor was targeted. Two, he knew and deliberately did not act in order, as revisionist historians have claimed, to force America into a war that he believed wa...
Japan bombing Pearl Harbor left 2,403 Americans dead, and millions of citizens startled. Pearl Harbor is a naval base off the coast of Hawaii. After killing thousands of America’s military, the United States was forced to join World War II. Immediately after the strike, many Americans became...
Although the president, unlike Secretary of War Henry Stimson, was not surprised by the attack, the outcome must have caused him grave angst.2 [End Page 91] Japan regarded the successful air strike at Pearl Harbor as justified retaliation for America's existential attacks on Japan's economy ...
Employers used strikebreakers, violence, labor spies, police, the courts, and blacklists to combat the trade union campaigns of the 1900s and the mass strikes led by revolutionary organizations during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s.;By 1912 the largest and most dynamic workers' organization on ...
While several vessels, including the errant battleship Oklahoma did strike the breakwater, it hasn’t been verified that any of them actually struck the lighthouse. Long Beach was hit by an earthquake in 1933 that killed 115 people. Keeper Conklin reported that during the magnitude 6.4 temblor...
to be strongly affected by those in Asia. Writing in his diary entry of 9 December, Josef Goebbels enthused that Pearl Harbor had ‘totally changed the global picture. The US will now scarcely be able to send worthwhile material to England or the Soviet Union: they will need it themselves....
Lightning strikes behind the Statue of Liberty An intense bolt of lightning lit up the sky behind the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday night. Video courtesy nyclarity, Michael Calabrese via Storyful. NEW YORK-How strong is Lady Liberty? Strong enough to withstand a lightning strike. ...
The Pearl Harbor attack took place on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese unleashed a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The devastating strike resulted in more than 3,400 U.S. military casualties
On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes strike the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. From “The Second World War: Triumph of the Axis” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporati