Then the primary Japanese Imperial navy fighters and bombers popped up over the horizon at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, 80 years in the past immediately, they dramatically modified the course of historical past.
Much more so than the same terror launched on New York and Washington on 11 September, 2001, the Japanese sneak assault on the US base on the island would have far-reaching repercussions for the world.
Firstly, it was the impetus to get America totally concerned within the struggle in opposition to Nazism in Europe, as a result of Japan had allied itself with Adolf Hitler.
That dedication to the struggle noticed American trade ramping up its output vastly and, as many historians and economists imagine, that’s what drove the economic system of that previously isolationist nation to develop into the largest on the planet.
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Pearl Harbor additionally led on to the arrival of nuclear weapons, because the US took its revenge with atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
That, in flip, led to the nuclear arms race which might nicely have incinerated humankind in the course of the Chilly Conflict years.
Pearl Harbor additionally sparked the unstoppable development of the US navy and the assumption by lots of the nation’s leaders that it had an obligation to be the world’s policeman.