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2.4K views · 154 reactions | America's isolation from war ended on December 7, 1941, when Japan staged a surprise attack on American military installations in the Pacific. The United States faced a mammoth job in December 1941. Ill-equipped and wounded, the nation was at war with three formidable adversaries. It had to prepare to fight on two distant and very different fronts, Europe and the Pacific. | War Stories | Facebook