Pearl Harbor: When Japan woke up the sleeping giant of World War II in numbers

In October 1940, President Roosevelt ran for his third term. He must win the election, and America's entry into World War II seems almost inevitable. But American public opinion does not want war. What Japan does next will change all that, engaging the United States in a war it did not want, but thereby changing the course of history forever.

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