The American Battleship U.S.S. Arizona burning in Pearl Harbor during the surprise attack by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces on December 7, 1941. The most famous casualty of Pear Harbor, a bomb exploded Arizona’s munitions magazine, triggering a massive explosion. At the time, the war in Europe was well underway, but the United States abstained from becoming militarily involved, despite pleas from the Allied powers. Believing that the United States was impervious to being attacked by a foreign power on American soil, given the vast expanse of ocean on both sides of the country, Pearl Harbor forever changed that mindset.
