Due to the thought of Japan being an enemy to the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped almost all trade with Japan. Japan then decided that if they couldn't and weren't allowed to trade with America for the resources that it needed, it would take them from its Pacific friends and neighbors instead. On October 17th, General Hideki Tojo became the Prime Minister of Japan. In November 1941, Japanese diplomats arrived in Washington for talks.
At the same time, Japan was sending aircrafts across the North West Coast Pacific. Sunday, morning, December 7th, 1941, planes from the Japanese carriers in the Pacific bombed the US naval and air bases at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. 19 American ships were sunk or disabled.Nearly two hundred planes destroyed.Two thousand men killed, more than one thousand injured. Congress declared WAR!
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The Takeover
Non-FictionWhen Adolf Hitler walked into the presidential office of Paul von Hindenburg to become chancellor, the Old Gentleman was so annoyed he would hardly look at him. He had been kept waiting while Hitler and conservative leader Alfred Hugenberg argued ov...
