America pulled all it's dealing's with Japan. This included all iron and iron ore as well as fuel. This caused Japan to have a limited supply of supplies to continue their fight against China on the side of Germany, they were both fascist governments. Japan needed these supplies, and in it anger it attacked the United States by attacking the bulk of America's Navy in the Pacific on Dec 7th 1941 a Sunday morning, before declaring war on the United States.
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Congress approved the Lend-Lease Act
Japan attacked the US naval base of Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 - 'a day that will live in infamy', according to President Roosevelt. The attack brought America into the Second World War (Germany and Italy declared war on America a few days later).
Robert Adler invented the first workable wireless remote control for the television. Born in Austria, he earned his doctorate in physics at Vienna, then fled the Nazis, first coming to England, then America, where he was hired by Zenith in 1941.
Japan attacked Hong Kong on 8 December, 1941. The battle ended on Christmas day.
296.76 pounds equal to $1261.23 USD in 1941 or $17657 USD today