View footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the strike that provoked the U.S. into entering World War II
Learn about the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, by watching historical footage and viewing the USS Arizona National Memorial there.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; © Coatchristophe/Dreamstime.comLearn about Helmut Schmidt's political career.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.“America's Top Young Scientist” Gitanjali Rao invented a device to help test drinking water for lead. Why do we need it?
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.From The Second World War: Triumph of the Axis (1963).
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.In June 1942, one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, U.S. naval airplanes stopped the advance of the Japanese Imperial Navy near Midway Island. From “The Second World War: Allied Victory” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Jldelawter/Dreamstime.comRemembering the Pearl Harbor attack, with a discussion of the USS Arizona Memorial.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.In September 1940 Imperial Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Why?
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay took off from the Mariana Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, by dropping an atomic bomb, it heralded a new and terrible concept of warfare. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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NARRATOR: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the hub of the United States military power in the Pacific. More than 180 planes were destroyed; 18 ships were sunk or severely damaged. More than 3,700 men and women were wounded or killed. The events of that day, "a date which will live in infamy," as President Franklin Roosevelt called it, brought the United States into World War II.
Beneath the surface of the harbor water can still be seen the dark hull of the USS "Arizona," sunk by a series of torpedoes and aerial bombs. Over it the Arizona National Memorial honors the 1,102 men who went down and are still buried within the battleship.
Beneath the surface of the harbor water can still be seen the dark hull of the USS "Arizona," sunk by a series of torpedoes and aerial bombs. Over it the Arizona National Memorial honors the 1,102 men who went down and are still buried within the battleship.
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