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Neil Chandiramani's List: Tipping Point Pearl Harbor

  • Mar 01, 11

    Explanation shows how it happened while negotiations were going on, no warning

    www.factmonster.com/...A0837989.html explanation warning

    • On Dec. 7, 1941, while negotiations were going on with Japanese representatives in Washington, Japanese carrier-based planes swept in without warning over Oahu and attacked (7:55 A.M. local time) the bulk of the U.S. Pacific fleet, moored in Pearl Harbor. Nineteen naval vessels, including eight battleships, were sunk or severely damaged; 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed. Military casualties were 2,280 killed and 1,109 wounded; 68 civilians also died. On Dec. 8, the United States declared war on Japan.

  • Mar 01, 11

    Shows that if war wasn't announced it would be weird. the public expected it...
    shows how basically all their attempts at isolationism were or no good use, as in the end they had to join the war anyway

    citation: The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. n.d. Web. 1 March 2011. <http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_pearlhar_1.html>.

    www.americaslibrary.gov/...jb_wwii_pearlhar_2.html public join war isolationism fail

    • Most people knew what the attack meant for the U.S. even before Roosevelt's official announcement the next day. The U.S. would declare war on Japan. 

  • Mar 01, 11

    Talks about the attack and how it was really important. (changing the tides of the war), shows how because of Pearl harbor the war got even bigger

    citation: Pearl Harbor. n.d. Web. 1 March 2011. <http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/25/pearl_harbour/index.htm>.

    www.iwm.org.uk/...index.htm Pearl Harbor bigger important

    • The attack was  one of the most important events of the twentieth century.   It  brought the United States of America into the Second World War  and, together with the German assault on the Soviet Union in  June 1941 and Hitler's declaration of war on America on 11  December, turned a series of regional campaigns into a true  world conflict.

      • Put in significance paragraph

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