Pearl Harbor

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In the months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was re-elected to Congress in 1941 and argued against America joining the fight in World War II. But the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor later that year galvanized the country.

From The Wall Street Journal

He informed Hitler of his fears a week before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and may have repeated the message when he visited Hitler’s field headquarters near Rastenburg in February 1942.

From The Wall Street Journal

If you remember Pearl Harbor, call it a dress rehearsal.

From MarketWatch

Only weeks after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the emperor’s soldiers swept south through Malaya, often riding on cheap pushbikes in an assault dubbed “the bicycle blitzkrieg.”

From The Wall Street Journal