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    World War II is Pearl Harbor, it changed everything in America after it. Another thing about World War II is aviation, it had a huge impact on the war. Another huge thing about World War II is the atomic bomb. One of the major topic of World War II is Pearl Harbor, it changed everything in America after it. Pearl Harbor is one of the most saddest and most dreadful thing that has ever happened in America. The attack on Pearl Harbor is called the “day of infamy”. The attack on Pearl Harbor was on…

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    Pearl Harbor is known to be the most memorable event in history. This changed everything and led us into into World War Two. The United States did a lot to Japan and finally they got irritated and did something back and that was attacking Pearl Harbor. For example US stop trading oil, telling Japan to leave China and US expanded there fleet. The reason why Japan attack Pearl Harbor is because U.S. stop trading oil. In document C, in 1939 U.S. begins to embargo aircrafts, and parts aircrafts…

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    The extract from Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening is little more than just a simple footnote. This textbook was written by Bruce Robinson in 1970. It's original purpose was to educate students of the after war period about what really happened on the 7th of December 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The origin of this source is valuable due to the fact that Bruce Robinson eye witnessed the attack, thus it is a first-hand account of the event. Moreover, the purpose of this source is also…

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    Among multiple phrases, one of the most influential and powerful quotes found within Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Speech is when he asserts the future success of the United States of America in not only overcoming Japan’s attack on the nation, but ensuring that such event will never take place again, “I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of…

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    In the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States retaliated on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. the crew of the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. The bomb detonated 2,000 feet above the center of Hiroshima, destroying 60% of the city and killing an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 people immediately. Due to amount of civilian deaths this led to, we often ask ourselves if the bombings over these Japanese cities were necessary. To debate wether the…

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    submarines so they could attack the U.S.. Then they tried to bomb the U.S. by using fighter planes because the Japanese thought that the U.S. would surrender after they used multiple try at doing that they failed. Leading up to the attack of Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto planned sticking the U.S. with fighters, dive-bombers, and torpedoes because he wanted the U.S. to surrender before the war started. Midget submarines were the perfect choice for this mission because they were hard too see…

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt shows his devotion to the United States and its people in his speech about Pearl Harbor. He uses rhetorical devices such as anaphora and parallelism to distinguish his argument towards Japan, sending the message that we are not backing down. He assures to the citizens of America that he intends to prevent such a harmful and gruesome event, such as the attack on Pearl Harbor, to never happen again. “There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our…

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    one of the bloodiest wars in human history, World War Two. If America had not entered this conflict, the outcome may have been completely different, and the world significantly different than from what it is now. It may have been the attack on Pearl Harbor that officially marked America’s entrance into the war, but the reason actually stems back about 90 years ago, when Commodore Mathew Perry forced Japan open to trade. It was Commodore Perry who encountered Japan after 90 long years in…

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    USA have been going back and forth with each other for the longest. This has changed the countries socially, politically, and economically, but for now I will explain how Japan Attacking Pearl Harbor, The Lend-Lease Act, and some visual pictures socially affected these countries. Japan’s attacks on Pearl Harbor socially affected Japan because according to an excerpts from The Way of the Subjects from 1941, it states, “ The way of the subjects is to be loyal to the Emperor in disregard of self,…

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    The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, was the decisive moment that made the United States of America join World War Two. During and after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, America responded to the attack in different ways many times. The United States responses varied in effectiveness but all ended by turning in U.S. favour. [[EVENTS]] The U.S naval officials placed in Hawaii decided that the best response, at the time, was to fire at the Japanese bomber planes and submarines…

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