The United States fleet in the Pacific was anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, while most American sailors were still asleep in their bunks, Japanese planes from aircraft carriers flew over Pearl Harbor bombing every ship in sight. The "surprise" attack ...

On December 7th, at 7:55 a.m., 353 Japanese aircraft from six aircraft carriers fell from the skies over Pearl Harbor. In the blink of an eye, bombs and torpedoes were exploding all around the anchored U.S Pacific fleet, while the dreaded Zero fighters strafed both Wheeler and Hickam airfields. In...

Pearl Harbor By the year 1941, WWII was in full effect. Germany seemed to be the victor, gaining control of France and Poland as well as successfully bombing England. Many people believe that Germany would have indeed won the war if not for the intervention of the United States. Because of the...

Throughout the civil rights movement, there were multiple approaches to bringing equality and integration to many southern states. Some approaches were non-violent while others had violent endings. An event in the civil rights movement that signifies how the Supreme Court has an impact on the natio...

I'm getting antsy and fidgety; I've been sitting on this plane for more than three hours already. A five hour flight...good lord! This has to be one of the longest non-stop flights I have ever taken. "Calm your self Liz" I was thinking to myself, trying to be mildly calm. This f...

Franklin Roosevelt's policies toward Europe and Japan leading up to the American entry into World War II was in my opinion, duplicitous. President Roosevelt seemed to be more concerned about the United State's current interests rather than thinking ahead toward the future. International ...

Although the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor caught us off guard, not all American military planners were surprised. As far back as the 1920s some officers warned that the Japanese were to be our next enemy and that an attack on our Navy at a place like Pearl Harbor was inevitable. In 1924, Army Bri...

Speech on Pearl Harbor On the morning of December 7, 1941, a fleet of Japanese naval air force took off from their aircraft carriers around the pacific. They were headed for Pearl Harbor, which was the United States' center for military action in the Pacific. As the Americans at the base wer...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler were two of the most influential leaders in modern history. They had diametrically different views on leading their respective nations, as well as what purpose their leadership would serve. Their styles as leaders shaped their views and determined what acti...

David Guterson used many things he experienced in his life in his books and showed his beleifs in his books. An example of the is Snow Falling on Cedars. Drawing on his personal experience in the Pacific Northwest and eight years of careful research, Guterson vividly portrays the culture of San ...