Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

Hello, I'm James Rogers, and this is the history hit World Wars podcast a

podcast dedicated to that turbulent period in history between 1914 and 1945.

Now we know that the American decision to join the war helped turn the

tie towards victory for Britain and its allies, but it was on Sunday the

7th of December 1941 that Japanese aircraft attacked the United States Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,

and the US Pacific Fleet was devastated, with over 2,400 Americans killed.

But it was not the decisive strike Japan had hoped for as it

awakened this sleeping giant, this industrial giant that would turn into a

nemesis. So why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor and how did America respond?

Well in this podcast, history hits Rob Weinberg ask the big questions, those important questions

at a seminal event at Kings College London to Professor Carl Bridge. Paul, thanks for joining us. My pleasure. Pearl Harbor is one of the turning point events in the Second World War.

Why did its geographical location make it a target?

It's a complicated story but essentially the Japanese were

fighting in China. Japan wanted an empire like the British and the French and

various other empires and they'd been moving into China

for 50 years since the turn of the century.

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