{"id":120,"date":"2011-10-09T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-10-09T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:44:54","slug":"december-7-1941-pearl-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/december-7-1941-pearl-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldwar2\/ww2-pix\/pearl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S.S. Shaw, image courtesy of the U.S. National Archives<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A date which will live in infamy.&#8221; -Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>On Dec. 8, the United States declares war on Japan<\/li>\n<li>Dec. 11, Germany declares war on the United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dennis Kux, <em>Estranged Democracies<\/em>\u00a0(1992).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;US entry into the war in December 1941 vastly raised India&#8217;s strategic importance in Washington as well as American willingness to express its views on the Indian political situation to the British&#8221; (10)&#8211;manpower, geographic proximity to China<\/li>\n<li>Roosevelt brought up the issue on Churchill&#8217;s Christmas visit to Washington, where the Prime Minister &#8220;reacted so strongly and at such length that he [Roosevelt] never raised the issue [India] verbally again&#8221; (Churchill, <em>The Hinge of Fate<\/em>, 208-209)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gould, <em>Sikhs, Swamis, Students, and Spies<\/em>\u00a0(2006)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;With America&#8217;s own strategic situation directly affected by political conditions in India, and with the resulting new political atmosphere which this evoked in Washington&#8211;that the South Asian activists significantly escalated their lobbying and propaganda effort (315-16).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aldrich, <em>Intelligence and the War Against Japan<\/em>\u00a0(2000)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An opportunity for William Donovon to expand the reach and size of the OSS (140)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A date which will live in infamy.&#8221; -Franklin D. Roosevelt On Dec. 8, the United States declares war on Japan Dec. 11, Germany declares war on the United States Dennis Kux, Estranged Democracies\u00a0(1992). &#8220;US entry into the war in December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/december-7-1941-pearl-harbor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}