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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
Publisher. A+E Networks. On this day in 1941, at around 1:30 p.m., President Franklin Roosevelt is conferring with advisor Harry Hopkins in his study when Navy Secretary Frank Knox bursts in and announces that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack killed more than 2,400 naval and military personnel.n this day, in an early-morning sneak attack, Japanese warplanes bomb the U.S. naval base at Oahu Islandâs Pearl Harborâand the United States enters World War II. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull knew a Japanese attack was imminent.