Multiple choice general knowledge

What forced the Americans to join the second World War?

  1. Japanese air raid at Pearl Harbor

  2. Attack on the Jewish Population in Europe

  3. Invasion of Poland

  4. Torture in concentration camps
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was the decisive event that brought the United States into World War II. The surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service killed over 2,400 Americans and destroyed significant portions of the US Pacific Fleet, leading President Roosevelt to ask Congress to declare war on Japan the following day.

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