Expansion in the Pacific. President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor in 1939. This move was a threat to Japan, who wanted to expand in the Pacific. Military leaders and politicians saw a war between the U.S. and Japan as inevitable, with the solution being to attack first.
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1960’s had older cars and older cloths and they rolled cigarettes instead of buying them how they are now.