Quan Nguyen
English II Shaheen
MW 2:30-4
"Day of Infamy"
On December 7 of 1941, Japanese airplanes attacked the naval base of Pearl Harbor with a horrendous attack. With this, the 32nd president of the United States, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave his famous speech. Shortly after this, the British and United States declared war on Japan. Not so long after, Germany declares war on the United States. The attack of Pearl Harbor is to be said as the starting mark of America into the war of World War II. Now technically, the war started earlier in about 1921-1922, when Adolf Hitler assumed control of the National Socialist German Workers, otherwise known as the Nazis. But the US was not involved until the Japanese suddenly attacked Pearl Harbor. The US did have an idea of the Japanese attacking America, but that is another debate. Now, if the Americans of Pearl Harbor for sure known that Japanese planes were to attack, would there be another outcome to this......
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