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The **Attack on Pearl Harbor**[\[nb 3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#cite_note-13)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#cite_note-14) was a surprise [military strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_strike) by the [Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy_Air_Service) upon the [United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) (a [neutral country](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country) at the time) against the [naval base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Station_Pearl_Harbor) at [Pearl Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor) in [Honolulu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu), [Territory of Hawaii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii), just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States’ formal entry into [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) the next day. The [Japanese military leadership](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_General_Headquarters) referred to the attack as the **Hawaii Operation** and **Operation AI**,[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#cite_note-15)[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#cite_note-16) and as **Operation Z** during its planning.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#cite_note-17) [Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan) intended the attack as a [preventive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_war) action to keep the [United States Pacific Fleet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pacific_Fleet) from interfering with its planned military actions in [Southeast Asia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia) against overseas territories of the [United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), the [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands), and the United States. Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held [Philippines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941%E2%80%931942)), [Guam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1941)), and [Wake Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island) and on the [British Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire) in [Malaya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Malaya), [Singapore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singapore#Outbreak_of_war), and [Hong Kong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong)[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#cite_note-Gill-18), libtard.