December 7th

On this day – 7^th December 1941 – Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor was an American navy base in Hawaii.  The Japanese forces attacked in an effort to keep the US to stay out of Japanese expansion in Asian territories. 2403 Americans were killed in the attack and only 64 Japanese died. The Japanese attack on Perl Harbor was a significant event during the Second World War. This attack led the US to declare war on Japan and thereby they got involved in World War II. Germany declared war on the US on December 11^th, a declaration that the US shortly after reciprocated. The attack removed all American support non-intervention in the war. The involvement of the US helped the allied forces to win the war in 1945. The attack of Japan on American soil also got dire consequences for Japan, who are still the only country to have experienced the impact of nuclear bombs, when two of them were dropped over major Japanese cities in an American effort to end the war.  

Several fictional movies and stories have been made about the events at Perl Harbor. 

Pearl Harbor from 2011 is probably the most famous

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