borders of the European countries he had already conquered. However, it was the

surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, that devastated the U.S. naval base Pearl

Harbor, which took the war for the first time to a global scale. The attack on the small

island of Oahu, located in the Hawaiian islands, was the first major step in which the

south-eastern Asian countries, such as Japan, began to apply themselves as major powers

in the world. This was also the final act that drug the United States into the war.

The order in which the events of the hours of infamy occurred is as follows. On

December 6 in Washington D.C., President Roosevelt made a final appeal to the Emperor

of Japan for peace. There was no reply at all. Late this same day, the U.S. code-breaking

service began intercepting a 14-part message from the Japanese and deciphered the first 13

parts and passed them on to the President and Secretary of State. The Americans believed

at this point that a Japanese attack is imminent, and most likely to happen somewhere in

Southeast Asia. On December 7 the part of the Japanese message, stating that diplomatic

approaching and contacted a junior officer who totally disregarded their reports, thinking

pound air bomb penetrated into the forward magazine causing catastrophic explosions. In

wave targeted airfields and battleships. The second wave targeted other ships and

accordance with peacetime regulations. There are also no torpedo nets protecting the

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