December 7,1941

On December 7,1941 the U.S. troops stationed on the Island of Pearl Harbor were woken up by the sound of gunfire and explosions. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the worst surprise attacks in American history. For every Japanese soldier killed almost thirty-eight Americans were killed. Japan was at war with China. The American government tried many times with Japans leaders to withdraw troops from china and put an end to the …

…fifteen dive-bombers, and five torpedo planes. They also lost one large submarine, five midget subs, fifty-five airmen, nine crewmen, and an unknown number of people on the large sub. Today the resting spot of The Arizona is a war memorial. The major results of the bombing of Pearl Harbor were the involvement of the United States in World War II. The second major result was the dropping of the Atom Bomb at Hiroshima in Japan.