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Real Time History

Season 2023 · Episode 19

Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?

10.024mDecember 1, 2023

December 7, 1941: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the world and brought the US into the Second World War. But why did the Japanese resort to such an attack against a powerful rival and what did it have to do with the Japanese war in China?

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Episode 11812/1941: Hitler's Obsession with Napoleon's Defeat
Episode 2Why Napoleon Lost His Biggest Battle
Episode 3Stalin or the Bomb? - Why Japan Surrendered in WW2
Episode 4Russia's Last Crusade - The Crimean War 1853-1856
Episode 5What was the First Modern War?
Episode 6Rise of Mao - Chinese Civil War 1928-1937
Episode 7Why Rommel Lost the Battle for North Africa (WW2 Documentary)
Episode 8The Perfect D-Day That History Forgot
Episode 9Did Japan Start WW2 in 1937?
Episode 10Tempting Armageddon: Soviet vs. NATO Nuclear Strategy
Episode 11Napoleon's Downfall: German Campaign 1813
Episode 12Sicily 1943: Patton and Monty Land in Europe
Episode 13France's Vietnam War: Fighting Ho Chi Minh before the US
Episode 14Why France Lost Vietnam: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Episode 15Why Did the Vietnam War Break Out?
Episode 16Zulu Kingdom's Last Stand - The Anglo-Zulu War 1879
Episode 17Why Germany Lost the Battle of Kursk 1943
Episode 18Why Rommel Lost His Last Battle
Episode 19Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
Episode 20Downfall of Imperial Japan 1945: From Iwo Jima to Nagasaki