The Pearl Harbor Attack

On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese.  As then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated, December 7th was a day that will live in infamy.  It was that single event in which the U.S.S. Arizona was attacked that brought America into World War II.  World War II had been taking place since September 1939 when German forces attacked Poland.  When Pearl Harbor was attacked, we had no choice but to go to war to roll back the forces of both the Germans and the Japanese.