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Dbq 11 Pearl Harbor

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On September 27th, 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The war had truly begun and terror was all over Europe. It would not be long until the war would reach America. The Imperial Japanese Navy surprise attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, killing 2,403, but failing to cripple the Pacific Fleet as the US aircraft carriers were not at Pearl Harbor. Just one day after the attack, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his “Day of Infamy Speech”, asking Congress to declare war on Japan. Just one day later, Congress declared war on Japan. That same day, Japan also declared war on the United States.The United States was officially in WWII. In 1938, a Nazi physicist discovered nuclear fission and

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