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    7 December 1941

 

USA, Japan > Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

 

 

The Japanese attack (...)

pulled the U.S. into World War II.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/
us/richard-higgins-dead.html

 

 

 

 

Propaganda poster

issued by the United States Office of War Information

in 1942.

Wikipedia

added 15 September 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Avenge_december_7.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamy_Speech

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEYOND THE WORLD WAR II WE KNOW

We Are Still Living the Legacy of World War II

Act III of the war — After the War —

is now simply part of our daily reality,

in America and globally, writes Tom Hanks.

NYT

September 2, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
magazine/world-war-ii-end-tom-hanks.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hideki Tojo    東條 英機    1884-1948

 

soldier and statesman

who was prime minister of Japan

during most  of World War II (1941–44)

and who was subsequently

tried and executed for war crimes.

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/598171/Tojo-Hideki

 

 

 

 

WWII propaganda posters

using racial stereotypes were common.

 

Shown here

Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo

of the Axis alliance.

 

Wikipedia

added 15 September 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PropagandaHitlerTojo.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese war criminal Hideki Tojo.

 

Date taken: December 1948

 

Photograph: Carl Mydans

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/a65a1289423db148.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/us/
john-wilpers-who-captured-a-prime-minister-dies.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/03/
opinion/03iht-eddenis.t.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/07/
opinion/07iht-edold.t_11.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young boy

from the Madison Square Boys' Club

carrying a large bundle of newspapers

after the attack on Pearl Harbor,

including the New York Mirro

 which has the headline "Japs Declare War."

 

Location: New York, NY, US

 

Date taken: December 08, 1941

 

Photograph: Dmitri Kessel

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2ae5a8d41bc3d8a0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 1941

 

Japan forces

 

Fall of Hong Kong

 

 

The Battle of Hong Kong

(8–25 December 1941),

also known as

the Defence of Hong Kong

and the Fall of Hong Kong,

was one of the first battles

of the Pacific War

in World War II.

 

On the same morning

as the attack on Pearl Harbor,

forces of the Empire of Japan

attacked the British Crown

colony of Hong Kong,

without declaring war

against the British Empire.

 

The Hong Kong garrison

consisted of British,

Indian and Canadian units,

also the Auxiliary Defence Units

and Hong Kong

Voluntary Defence Corps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong - 19 March 2021

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Battle_of_Hong_Kong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 1941-1945

 

The Japanese army

invaded Burma

in December 1941.

 

 

It began only a few days

after the surprise bomb attack

at Pearl Harbor on Hawaii

devastated the US fleet

and signalled

the expansion of the conflict

across the Pacific

and through south-east Asia.

 

Depleted by the need

to fight on fronts

closer to homeduring

the second world war,

few British and Indian

army units

had been left to defend

the colony.

 

They were, however,

later joined by Chinese forces

loyal to Chiang Kai-shek.

 

Rangoon, Burma's capital,

fell to the Japanese

in March 1942.

 

Thailand had entered

into an alliance with Japan

and its troops

supported the invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/01/elephant-man-gyles-mackrell-invasion-burma 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/01/
elephant-man-gyles-mackrell-invasion-burma 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isoroku Yamamoto    山本 五十六    1884-1943

 

 

 

 

Time Covers - The 40S

TIME cover 12-22-1941

ill. of Japanese Imperial Navy Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

 

Date taken: December 22, 1941

 

Photograph: Arthur Szyk

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=8f5b5ac4d036195a

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?imgurl=8f5b5ac4d036195a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese

Naval Marshal General

and commander-in-chief

of the Combined Fleet

during World War II,

graduate of the Imperial

Japanese Naval Academy

and student

of Harvard University

(1919–1921).

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto

 

 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
battle_midway_01.shtml

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/
opinion/a-reluctant-enemy.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/
opinion/remembering-pearl-harbor.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 December 1941 - 15 February 1942

 

Japan forces

 

Fall of Singapore and Malaya

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/
nonflash/a1122391.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 8, 1941 - January 31, 1942

 

Battle of Malaya

 

Campaign fought

by Allied and Japanese forces

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Malayan_campaign

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/
nonflash/a1122391.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 8, 1941

 

Japan invades Thailand and Malaya

from bases located in Indochina

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Malayan_campaign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 December 1941

 

USA

 

Declaration of War on Japan

 

 

Players: General Töjö

(Japanese Minister for War

and Prime Minister from 1941-44),

 

Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt,

Cordell Hull

(US Secretary of State),

 

Admiral Yamamoto,

Matsuoka Yösuke

(Japan's foreign minister).

 

 

For four years,

Japan's designs on China

had caused alarm to the Allies.

 

By 1938

Japan occupied a vast area

of the Chinese coastline.

 

Japan's ambition

was to establish

Japanese primacy in Asia

and incorporate

China into the Empire,

subduing any opposing

Western nation.

 

On 27 September 1940,

Japan signed

the Tripartite Pact

with Germany and Italy,

binding the three countries

to mutual support.

 

Japan now faced

a war with Russia

and Hitler's attack

there in June 1941

came as a disturbing surprise

to the Japanese.

 

A Russo-Japanese

non-aggression pact

was negotiated

by Matsuoka Yösuke,

Japan's foreign minister,

in 1941

- but Stalin would eventually

break the terms

of this agreement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1138709.shtml - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 8, 1941

 

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

Pearl Harbor Speech

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/07/
458824081/pearl-harbor-how-a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy-almost-wasnt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pearl Harbor    Sunday, 7 December 1941

 

 

 

 

USS SHAW exploding

during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor.

December 7, 1941.

80-G-16871.

Pictures of World War II

US National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-126.jpg

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/?template=print#japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoke pouring from wrecked American warships

including (L-R)

the battleships USS West Virginia & USS Tennessee

which were damaged or sunk

during Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

 

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hioahu, US

 

Date taken: December 07, 1941

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=668abdda85973e6b

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan declares war

on United States and Britain

 

Japanese forces attack

American and British

territories and possessions

in the Pacific,

including the home base

of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-History.html

 

 

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/
december-07/

https://www.loc.gov/collections/
interviews-following-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor/about-this-collection/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/
pearl-harbor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/
1242430911/lou-conter-uss-arizona-pearl-harbor

 

ttps://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/
1241843461/pearl-harbor-dna-virginia-sailor

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/
us/richard-higgins-dead.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/
1218044792/centenarian-pearl-harbor-survivors-
return-to-honor-those-who-were-killed-82-year

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/
opinion/sunday/dorie-miller-navy-ship.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/
797756016/u-s-navy-to-name-aircraft-carrier-after-wwii-hero-doris-miller

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/world/pearl-harbor-
anniversary.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/07/
504581691/not-for-you-cindy-lou-these-tasty-holiday-treats-are-for-grownups

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/06/
504449867/no-fdr-did-not-know-the-japanese-were-going-to-bomb-pearl-harbor

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/
books/review/countdown-to-pearl-harbor-steve-twomey.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/us/
decades-after-pearl-harbor-a-mission-to-honor-the-unknowns-gains-urgency.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/us/
john-wilpers-who-captured-a-prime-minister-dies.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/opinion/a-reluctant-enemy.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/opinion/remembering-pearl-harbor.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/sports/baseball/17reflect.html

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06bradley.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/opinion/opinionspecial/index.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/07/
pearl-harbour-america-at-war

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/07/
us-japan-pearl-harbor-anniversary

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/opinion/07thu4.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/opinion/07trumbull.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1941/dec/08/secondworldwar.fromthearchive 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127505,00.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/30/
archives/the-official-pearl-harbor-reports-army-and-navy-boards-in-pearl.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1942/12/06/
archives/the-truth-about-pearl-harbor.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/25/
archives/stresses-pearl-harbor-attack.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/08/
archives/guam-bombed-army-ship-is-sunk-us-fliers-head-north-from-manila.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 26, 1941

 

Hull note demanding

Japan's withdrawal

of all its troops from China

 

 

The Hull note or officially

Outline of Proposed Basis

for Agreement Between

the United State and Japan

was the final proposal delivered

to the Empire of Japan

by the United States

before the attack on Pearl Harbor

and the declaration of war

between the two nations.

 

The note was delivered

on November 26, 1941;

it is named

for Secretary of State

Cordell Hull.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hull_note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cordell_Hull

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/07/
us-japan-pearl-harbor-anniversary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cordell Hull   1871-1955

 

 

 

 

HULL, CORDELL.

Photograph by Underwood & Underwood.

[Between 1900 and 1955.]

Library of Congress

Famous People

Selected Portraits From the Collections of the Library of Congress

Location: Biographical File

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-94179

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poh.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Secretary of State

for 11 years (1933-1944)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cordell_Hull

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/07/
us-japan-pearl-harbor-anniversary 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan's gigantic second world war gamble

 

 

 

Map of the Japanese Empire at its peak in 1942

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/07/
japan-imperialism-militarism

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/
sep/07/rise-of-japanese-militarism

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/07/
japanese-prisoner-of-war-camp

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/07/
japanese-kamikaze-pilots-second-world-war

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tripartite Pact,

also known as the Berlin Pact,

was an agreement between

Germany, Italy and Japan

signed in Berlin

on 27 September 1940 by,

respectively,

Joachim von Ribbentrop,

Galeazzo Ciano

and Saburō Kurusu.

 

It was a defensive

military alliance

that was eventually joined

by Hungary

(20 November 1940),

Romania

(23 November 1940),

Bulgaria

(1 March 1941)

and Yugoslavia

(25 March 1941),

as well as

by the German client state

of Slovakia

(24 November 1940).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tripartite_Pact

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
axis-alliance-in-world-war-ii

 

 

https://fresques.ina.fr/jalons/fiche-media/InaEdu00227/
signature-du-pacte-tripartite-entre-l-allemagne-l-italie-et-le-japon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 7, 1937 - September 9, 1945

 

Second Sino-Japanese War

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Second_Sino-Japanese_War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan's Quest for Empire    1931-1945

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
japan_quest_empire_01.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan

 

Second world war 'sex slaves'

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/09/japan.
secondworldwar 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rising tension in Asia

before the second world war

 

Declining relations

between Russia and Japan

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/
second-world-war-asia-japan-russia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 1936

 

German-Japanese Treaty

 

Berlin and Tokio announce their pact

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/
Story/0,,127041,00.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USA

 

The Immigration Act of 1924

(The Johnson-Reed Act)

 

Japanese immigration to America

is banned

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Immigration_Act_of_1924

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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