The United States was never gonna join the war, Americas job was to only supply Great Britain with money and equipment to fight Hilter and his Blitzkrieg. When the war started on September 1, 1939, it sent the world into chaos, the United States was safe from Hiters army and was not going to get involved, but that all changed on December 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan surprise bombed U.S. ships at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese force consisted of 353 aircraft were launched. These included 40 torpedo planes, 103 level bombers, 131 dive-bombers, and 79 fighters. This attack left 2403 U.S personnel dead, the attack lasted 11 minutes and would change Americas look on the war. At this point, the Axis powers that consisted of Germany, Japan, and Italy and the Allies were the United States, Great Britain, USSR, and France. The reason the attack even
happened was a major intelligence failure (Dahl 70), we that we thought the planes coming in were our bombers coming back from a recon mission, but it was the Japanese flying in to attack. Since the attack on Pearl Harbor, anesthesia caused almost 1178 perioperative deaths 24 hours following the attack (Crowhurst 21). This attack is a day that will live in infamy (Friedrich 2). That day Japan had awoken a sleeping giant and will make us join the war and almost 4 years later we would drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending the war. While the war was being fought people found more jobs and America started to rebuild after the Great Depression. When the remaining soldiers came home, there was a new generation born, the generation was called the baby boomers and are still alive today. But the ones that didn’t their sacrifice will always be remembered.