Synopsis
On 7th December 1941, Japanese planes bombed the US fleet at Pearl Harbour. Programme looks at what caused Japan to launch this attack, culminating in the Hiroshima atom bomb.
- Programme: Twentieth Century History
- Episode: 8: Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 1978
- History
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