Dbq Attack On Pearl Harbor

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On 8:00 am, December 7, 1941, the Japanese set out hundreds of fighter planes on the naval base, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii (Staff 1). The raid lasted only two hours, but it destroyed three hundred planes, twenty naval ships, that counted eight battle ships, ( all but two were salvaged the U.S.S. Arizona and the U.S.S. Utah ), and killed 2,000 American soldiers and sailors (Staff 1). The next day Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; which Congress willingly accepted (Staff 1).

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