The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise strike by Japanese aircraft carriers on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, on Oahu in Hawaii, on the morning of 7 December 1941. The attack was planned by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to destroy the Pacific Fleet while Japan expanded into Southeast Asia, which followed American oil and trade embargoes. It sank or damaged most of the battleships present and killed more than two thousand Americans, though the aircraft carriers were away. The following day the United States declared war on Japan, and Germany and Italy declared war on the United States a few days later. The attack brought the country fully into the Second World War.
Before and after
- from 10 November 1941 to 30 December 1941Tikhvin offensive
- from 10 November 1941 to 18 November 1941Operation Flipper
- from 18 November 1941 to 30 December 1941Operation Crusader
- from 7 December 1941 to 2 September 1945Pacific War
- 7 December 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- from 7 December 1941 to 8 May 1942Philippines Campaign
- from 8 December 1941 to 23 December 1941Battle of Wake Island
- from 8 December 1941 to 9 September 1945South-East Asian theater of World War II
- from 8 December 1941 to 31 January 1942Malayan campaign
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- from 1 August 1927 to 1 May 1950Chinese Civil War
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 September 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- from 22 June 1941 to 7 May 1945Eastern Front
- from 22 June 1941 to 5 December 1941Operation Barbarossa
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