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The U.S. Entering World War II-

Date Submitted: 07/09/2004 14:21:22
Category: / History
Length: 5 pages (1255 words)
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The U.S. Entering World War II- "A date that will live in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile radars. They immediately called this in to their commanding officer but he told them to ignore it because the base was expecting a squadron of friendly …

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…--- Work Cited Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. Snyder, Louis L., et al. Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II. New York: Reader's Digest Association, 1969. Parenthetic citation form: (Snyder et al. 33) Divine, Robert A. Roosevelt & World War II. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1969. Richardson & Steirman, Inc. The Secret History of World War II. New York: Richard & Steirman, Inc., 1986. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963

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