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General Tojo Part 3: Attack on Pearl Harbor

2020/11/30
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Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 marked the beginning of the Pacific War, with General Hideki Tojo leading Japan into what he believed would be a victorious campaign against the United States.

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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The Pacific War is underway. In Tokyo, Prime Minister Tojo moves to take every significant government job for himself. Japanese troops sweep through the Malay Peninsula. Thousands of Allied soldiers are interned in prisoner of war camps, in conditions that beggar belief.

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