Historical Events And Attacks That Had To Do With WWII

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The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Christopher Hawley, Luke See, Brandon Binder
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We chose this project after talking about historic events and attacks that had to do with WWII. We started talking about attacks that had to do with America during the time. After some research we found the attack on Pearl Harbor. We were interested in the attack on Pearl Harbor because of the way it had affected America in future wars and how it got the US in WWII. Before the project we had wanted the learn how the Japanese were able to carry out the attack successfully, and how it had affected America that led them to join the war.

We did most of our research on ABC Clio. We

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