Courtesy - The History.com: Just before 8 on the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese
fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near
Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was
devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval
vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes.
More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and
another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress
approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. Three days
later, Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United
States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two years into the
conflict, America had finally joined World War II.
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