With Pearl Harbor , the European war of 1939 acquires its characteristic of world conflict on December 7, 1941, after the attack of Japan on the US naval base from Pearl Harbor , the war spreads throughout the world and transforms into the World War II .And not just because a new theater of operations opens in Asia and in the Pacific, but because the Japanese action is going to be the trigger that will launch the United States into war. USS Maryland and USS Oklahom, December 7, 1941 (History of War) Until Pearl Harbor , two conflicts juxtaponed in the world, because the European war generated by the Nazi government of Germany had been preceded by that of China in 1937, with the conquest of Manchuria. The conflict in China , without emb argo, it was a conflict until then located, and that around 1940 seemed to be in a stalemate. Japan , owner of the eastern ports, of the big cities and Asian communication routes from Beijing to Nankin and Canton, had not delved into t
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