Death, destruction, and mercilessness do little justice in describing the horrible events that took place on December 7th, 1941. What Pearl Harbor fails to accurately depict is the complexity of the situation. The actual causes of the attack and also the long-term effects that the attack on Pearl Harbor had on the world are some aspects one doesn't see. Was the bombing of Pearl Harbor a success? Who benefited the most in the end? Scholars have …showed first 75 words of 1716 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1716 total…to the story. Only more violence, death, and destruction took place. With Germany and Italy declaring war on America, the United States was in store for a long, bloody war that the whole world was tangled up in. Had it not been for this single attack, the course that the war would have taken might have been completely different, and the status of superpower could have been achieved by different nations than ones that did.