Attack on Pearl Harbor

""Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.""

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Attack on Pearl Harbor was the first battle of the Pacific Theater of World War II. It happened on December 7, 1941, in Honolulu, Hawaii, when the Imperial Japanese Navy suprise-attacked the US Navy in a bombing. It led to the US declaring war on the Axis, joining the Allies, and entering the war.