Dec. 7, 1941, will always be a day in American history that speaks horror and deaths. On this day, Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii a U.S. naval base, more than 2,400 Americans was killed in this brutal attack. The attack damage or destroy eight Navy battleships and more than 100 planes. The attack by Japan, triggered the United States to declared was on Japan and ignited the fury of the United States' entrance into World War II.
This bloody event was of importance, because prior to the attack, the US Congress would have rejected an appeal by the President to declare war and more over the US population would have opposed it by a wide margin. By then, most American weren’t focus on war, at least not in the Pacific, but the war …show more content…
This horrific bomb showed the world the true power of the atomic bomb and its horrible aftermath. Most critics argues that the two atomic bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States wasn’t necessary. America simply wanted either to show off their power to the world or to get even for Pearl Harbor. Whatever the reason, the devastation from those bombs were so immense that Japan surrendered just a few days after the bombing. Whole cities were wiped out, thousands died instantaneously, and thousands more were victims of radioactive …show more content…
We have one of the most powerful military in the world, we have one of the intelligence Agency in the world and after the 9/11 attack on US soil, our military and intelligence agencies has gotten even stronger. September 11 attack brought about the Homeland Security Act(HAS). The purpose of the HAS was in effort to start defending America from any further terrorist attacks. It was the biggest change to the organization of the federal government in over 50 years. It passed on November 25, 2002, joining the efforts, authorities and powers of over twenty federal agencies into a single entity. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and many
This bloody event was of importance, because prior to the attack, the US Congress would have rejected an appeal by the President to declare war and more over the US population would have opposed it by a wide margin. By then, most American weren’t focus on war, at least not in the Pacific, but the war …show more content…
This horrific bomb showed the world the true power of the atomic bomb and its horrible aftermath. Most critics argues that the two atomic bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States wasn’t necessary. America simply wanted either to show off their power to the world or to get even for Pearl Harbor. Whatever the reason, the devastation from those bombs were so immense that Japan surrendered just a few days after the bombing. Whole cities were wiped out, thousands died instantaneously, and thousands more were victims of radioactive …show more content…
We have one of the most powerful military in the world, we have one of the intelligence Agency in the world and after the 9/11 attack on US soil, our military and intelligence agencies has gotten even stronger. September 11 attack brought about the Homeland Security Act(HAS). The purpose of the HAS was in effort to start defending America from any further terrorist attacks. It was the biggest change to the organization of the federal government in over 50 years. It passed on November 25, 2002, joining the efforts, authorities and powers of over twenty federal agencies into a single entity. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and many