PEARL HARBOR

7 DECEMBER 1941 10 NOVEMBER 1941 Churchill promises Roosevelt to declare war “within the hour” should Japan attack the United States. 13 NOVEMBER 1941 US Congress repeals parts of the 1939 Neutrality Act to allow the arming of merchant ships. 26 NOVEMBER 1941 Cordell Hull demands the Japanese withdrawal of troops from China. 5 DECEMBER 1941 Hitler halts the German offensive in front of Moscow. 11 DECEMBER 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. 19 JANUARY 1942 Roosevelt approves funding to develop an atomic bomb. In the early morning of 7 December – 8 December in Japan – waves of Japanese naval aircraft with bombs and torpedoes attacked the major United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. They attacked without warning…

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