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An aerial view of the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Taken in October 1941.

A map of the Pacific Ocean territories and which imperial power controlled what in 1939.

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku (1884-1943), Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet and prime advocate of the attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 which brought the United States into the Second World...

La Grande Armée was the military instrument through which Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French, reign 1804–1814; 1815) transformed warfare during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). Built upon the reforms of the French Revolutionary armies...

The destruction of US Navy battleships while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. Damage following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. Visible here are the USS West Virginia...

The capsized USS Oklahoma and the USS Maryland, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. The damage to US Navy battleships following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. To the left of the...

Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. The wreck of the US Navy battleship Arizona following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona was one of the...

USS Arizona ablaze at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. Following the aerial bomb and torpedo attack by the Japanese, the wreckage of the USS Arizona is burning and pouring smoke. Library of Congress, Washington...

The USS California sinking down onto the floor of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, December 1941. The destruction from the Japanese attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor. Aerial bombs and torpedoes were dropped, leaving the...

By the 18th century, European power had become truly global through a combination of maritime expansion, state-backed commerce, and military force. The leading Atlantic empires, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch Republic, England, and France, had...