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Pearl Harbor episode 1: A gathering storm in Japan

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Chris Harding speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about Japan in the years running up to December 1941. They discuss the long-running historical factors that edged the country ever closer to war with the United States, and ask: what led Japan to embark on such a risky gamble? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.3

Someone that has sex.

0:26.2

And remember, it's just between us.

0:30.3

Hello and welcome to this History Extra Plus podcast, Pearl Harbor, the story of the surprise attack.

0:41.8

This is episode one, a gathering storm in Japan.

0:53.6

80 years ago, on the 7th of December 1941, a US naval base on a small Hawaiian island in the middle of the Pacific found itself under attack.

0:56.3

As Japanese bombers screamed across the skies over Pearl Harbor that morning, they plotted a course that would alter not only the lives of those

1:01.7

stationed at the base below them, but those of millions across the world. Addressing his dumbstruck

1:07.2

nation in the attack's aftermath, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the 7th of December

1:12.7

1941 a date which will live in infamy. And eight decades on, the raid on Pearl Harbor is still

1:19.7

remembered as one of the most significant moments of the Second World War, a daring surprise attack

1:25.4

that suddenly catapulted the industrial behamoth of the United States into the conflict.

1:31.2

And in so doing, arguably tipped to the balance of power.

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