The Impact Of Pearl Harbor Attack On American Culture

In the early morning on December 7 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States. They used fighter planes to attack Pearl Harbor just off the coast of Hawaii, even though America was not actively involved in the war at the time of the attack. This was a significant event in history because this was a main storage place for many of America’s military boats, planes, and soldiers. Over 2000 soldiers were killed that day, and an additional 1000 were wounded (History.com, 2009). This attack had many major impacts on the culture of the US as it affected the media, the government, and the general public.
To begin, the Pearl Harbor attack was successful at changing the culture of the time by directly impacted the media of the period. Had this attack not happened, the US would most likely never had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This impacted the culture of the media of the United States at the time by making nuclear weapons and warfare something that is well-known by the public (Kiernan, 2017). Also, after this attack there was much more propaganda created to get American citizens to want to join the military to help avenge what had
At the beginning of the second world war, America did not want to enter the fight, as they wanted to stay on good terms with all other countries. After the attack, they could no longer remain impartial to Japan, so Franklin D. Roosevelt and the US government changed their ways and decided to enter the war so that they could avenge what had been done to them on December 7. “The country had been keeping itself isolated from the global war; however, after the attack, the country declared war on Japan on Dec. 8, 1941” (Reference.com, 2016). This shows that this historic event changed the culture at the time by completely changing the ways of the government and how they chose to run their