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☆☆☆☆☆- Many died and World War 2 began for the U.S. The war had already started.Also, Japanese-Americans were put in concentration camps because they were known to be spying for Japan. The result of the attack on Pearl Harbor was... the USS Oklahoma, USS Utah, and USS Arizona were sunk. Between those 3 - within 15 minutes.. we had lost approximately 1800 soldiers. We lost 2,403 Americans that day including 68 civilians.
- It also was one of those defining moments when Americans from coast to coast stood up and refused to be ignored. Within 24 hours the recruiting offices all across the country were open with lines stretching for blocks. By attacking Americans on American soil, the public refused to take it lying down. Anyone who was able signed up to serve in the war.
- Congress declared war on Japan.
The event known as the Berlin Airlift was the Allies' response to Stalin's act of closing the roads through East Germany and to the Allies' occupation zones in West Berlin. In order to supply that half of the city, British planes, along with some American, flew into the city to airlift supplies. It was the only safe way to do it, because Stalin wouldn't shoot down an army plane for fear of World War III.
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Many women took jobs that fell outside the traditional realm of women's work.
He miscalculated the strength of the Japanese and was forced to retreat.
MacArthur positioned his forces to repel the Japanese land attack on December 22, but he badly miscalculated the strength of the enemy and was forced to retreat.
Joseph Stalin, dictator of the USSR, told Churchill and Roosevelt that Poland would have free elections and that the Soviets would support democratic governments in Eastern Europe. But Poland became a Soviet satellite (puppet state), along with several other countries along the Soviet borders that formed the Warsaw Pact.
Churchill told the British people that "we shall never surrender" after the evacuation of Dunkirk.
That America's national security involved world security
