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    The Japanese attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. The bombing killed over 2,400 Americans and destroyed or damaged numerous US battleships and aircraft. In response, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress the next day and received approval to declare war on Japan. This brought the United States fully into World War II as an ally of Britain and the Soviet Union against Germany, Italy and Japan.

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    The Japanese attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. The bombing killed over 2,400 Americans and destroyed or damaged numerous US battleships and aircraft. In response, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress the next day and received approval to declare war on Japan. This brought the United States fully into World War II as an ally of Britain and the Soviet Union against Germany, Italy and Japan.

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    Round Circle News 

    ________________________________________________________________

    Minneapolis, Minnesota - December 8th, 1941 - WWII


    ____________________________________________________________________________
    __

    ​After months of
    How did this
    BOMBING happen?
    planning and
    practicing. Japanese

    ON PEARL Japan at the time was


    expanding and hoped
    planes at 8 am
    started to diffuse
    bombs all over.
    HARBOR expanding would solve their
    economic and Social
    Ranging from the
    island houses to the
    problems. Enable for Japan to
    SHOOK expand, they needed oil to
    supply their defenses and
    Naval ships.
    Destroying the US’s
    navy and having to
    THE they looked towards the US as
    we have a powerhouse for oil.
    witness mass
    manslaughter, the
    As the US is still recovering
    PACIFIC. from the Great Depression,
    the president wanted to
    US joined World
    War II.

    Japanese planes destroyed  isolate us from foreign affairs The US Joins


    US Naval ships and injured  and trade with other WWII
    many.   countries until absolutely
    ____________________________________ necessary. In 1937, Japan
    declared war on China, which
    was one cause of World War
    II. Japan needing resources to
    fight their war looking to the
    US seemed to be a good
    option until we declined
    them. Wanting to stand their
    FDR officially declaring war
    ground after the months of on Japan the day after Pearl
    non-negotiable meetings, The Harbor.

    The USS West Virginia, left, was destroyed due Japanese struck Pearl Harbor ​Franklin D.
    to Japanese flying bombs which successfully with brute force and left no Roosevelt had a
    destroyed all 7 ships behind it. meeting with
    mercy to the americans.
    American soil shook​ on The Japanese plan to Congress today to
    December 7th before 8 am at destroy our Navy was quite get approval for the
    Pearl Harbor. Japanese bombs simple: to destroy the Naval official declaration of
    killed more than 2,400 Fleet. Knowing that the war on european
    americans, thousands injured United States hadn’t prepared powers. With
    and ruined the United States to fight a war or defend approval from
    Naval ships. Today, President themselves, the US islands Congress, FDR
    Franklin Roosevelt declared were an easy target. declared war on
    war on Japan. Japan and allied
    countries like Italy
    and Germany soon
    declared war on the
    United States. FDR
    said on December
    8th, “I believe that 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 it very certain
    that this form of
    treachery shall never
    again endanger us.”

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