On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... On December 8, Americans anxiously sat around their radios, ready to hear President Roosevelt address the nation. ... The attack on Pearl Harbor began on the morning of December 7th, 1941 just before 8 A.M. ... The Japanese attack brought the U.S. into war on December 8 which would ultimately turn into what we know of as today as World War II. ... Near the end of his studies at Yale, Bush applied for a pilot trainee in the Texas Air National guard, commissioned as a...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologies. The world was in constant change. July 28, 1914 was a date that would change the world forever. ...

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