The Japanese surprise attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, on December 7th 1941. Described by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as “a date which will live in infamy” on his famous speech delivered the following day.
The attack happened in the absence of a declaration of war and without any kind of warning to the civilian population. Japanese attack planes sunk four battleships, severely damaged another four, sunk another two military boats, damaged three cruisers, three destroyers and three other vessels. It destroyed 188 planes and severely damaged 159 more. 2,335 servicemen were killed and 1,143 were wounded. 68 civilians were killed and 35 were wounded with 3 civilian planes shot down. The US declared war on Japan on December 8, one hour after Roosevelt’s speech.
There were of course multiple reasons why did were unhappy with Persian rule. But one thing that surely bothered them greatly was the fact that they were drafted into the Persian army and had to fight fellow greeks, which is obviously not a thing they would have wanted to do.
In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. The end of the Civil War found the nation without a settled Reconstruction policy.
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The new Greek age known as the Hellenistic Era was created by the conquests of Augustus. This period began almost immediately following the death of Alexander.
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