Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, war between the Empire of Japan and the United States was a possibility each nation's military forces had planned for...
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor...
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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. The United States military suffered 19 ships damaged or sunk, and 2,403 people were killed...
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The attack on Pearl Harbor has received substantial attention in popular culture in multiple media and cultural formats including film, architecture, memorial...
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Day of Infamy speech (redirect from Pearl Harbor Address)
States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and...
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United States and persists until the attack on Pearl Harbor. That presented a major obstacle in garnering support for the war, as Americans did not feel...
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American carrier raids of 1942 (category Naval battles of World War II involving the United States)
undertaken in the first half of 1942 in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Six American air-naval operations conducted from January to the end of...
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Fumimaro Konoe (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
became prime minister fifty years later, on 9 August 1993. Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor Nanshin-ron policy Tekigai-sō, Konoe's villa in Suginami...
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Niihau incident (redirect from The Niihau Incident)
Nishikaichi Shigenori) crash-landed on the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese Navy had mistakenly...
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Battle of Midway (redirect from The battle of midway)
months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Japanese Combined Fleet under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto...
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Battle for Henderson Field (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
forces on Guadalcanal, not necessarily the number directly involved in the battle. 4,500 more American troops defended Tulagi. Hough, Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal...
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and the Central Pacific with near-simultaneous offensives including an attack on the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. News of the attack on Pearl Harbor reached...
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USS Panay incident (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
J. "The 'Panay' Incident: Prelude To Pearl Harbor." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (Dec 1967) 93#12 pp 26–37. Tolley, Kemp. Yangtze Patrol: The US Navy...
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Battle of Wake Island (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
the attack on Pearl Harbor naval and air bases in Hawaii on the morning of 8 December 1941 (7 December in Hawaii), and ended on 23 December, with the surrender...
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Events preceding World War II in Asia (section The conquest of Southeast Asia and the road to Pearl Harbor)
Philippines shortly after attacking Pearl Harbor. The United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom formally declare war on Japan the next day. Second...
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Battle of Makin (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
the Gilbert Islands. On 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 300 Japanese troops plus laborers of the Gilberts Invasion Special...
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Pacific War (redirect from Greater East Asia War in the Pacific)
control over the entire territory in July 1941. On December 7–8, 1941, Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii; the U.S.-held Philippines...
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org. Archived from the original on 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2021-12-08. Wynn, Stephen (2020). "Chapter Ten : Attack on Pearl Harbor". The Rise and Fall of...
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Japanese invasion of Thailand (category World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre)
Thailand part of the Axis alliance until the end of World War II. It occurred roughly two hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The origin of Japanese...
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Japan during World War II (redirect from Japan in the Second World War)
signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. War with the U.S. and other Western allies of World War II began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December...
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World War II (redirect from World War To)
Minister Hideki Tojo instead. On 3 November, Nagano explained in detail the plan of the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Emperor. On 5 November, Hirohito approved...
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he attacked Kure despite McCain's objections. First, he believed that the attack would boost US morale and retaliate for the attack on Pearl Harbor in...
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following the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor. The Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Holy See, signed in 1929, required that the Pope maintain "perpetual...
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Battle of Hong Kong (redirect from The Battle of Hong Kong)
War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the same time...
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Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) (category Blockades by the United States)
agriculture. The third period started in December 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service brought the U.S. officially...
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Bombing of Darwin (redirect from Attack on Darwin)
All four carriers had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor at the start of the Pacific War. In addition to the carrier-based aircraft, 54 land-based...
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forces attacked Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. In launching this war, Japanese leaders sought to neutralize...
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Axis powers. The United States is generally considered to have entered the conflict with the 7 December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan and...
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and had been on station for approximately four months when the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December. The 206th CA was...
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USS Lassen (AE-3) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
voyages to the Samoa Islands, the Fiji Islands, and Pearl Harbor, the Lassen began duty as an advanced base supply ship. Departing from San Francisco on 26...
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