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Book

The attack on Pearl Harbor

Call Number

  • J 940.5426 SAMU (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2014.

Physical Description

48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Summary

Examines the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December of 1941, the event that impelled the United States into World War II.

Contents

  • Politics in the Pacific
  • War in Europe
  • The Japanese plans
  • The fleet sets sail
  • Pearl Harbor
  • The first wave
  • The second wave
  • Death on the Arizona
  • The airfields
  • Aftermath at Pearl Harbor
  • Reaction in the United States
  • The United States enters the war
  • Japanese internment
  • Who was to blame?
  • Pearl Harbor to Midway.

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