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The Attack on Pearl Harbour

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  THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR  General information :  The attack on Pearl Harbour was a random surprise military attack from the Japanese Navy towards a US naval base at the Pearl Harbour at the coast of Hawaii. This attack occurred on  December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. they used hundreds of planes to crash down onto the base, destroying battleships, planes, and killing over 2000 people. The Japanese plan was simple: Destroy the Pacific Fleet. That way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. Since early 1941 the U.S. had been supplying Great Britain in its fight against the Nazis. The Japanese military was responsible for this attack; Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto conceived the Pearl Harbour attack and Captain Minoru Genda planned it. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft (including fighters, level and dive bombers, and torpedo bombers) in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. Bombs and b
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The Great Plague 1665

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 A plague is a serious, infectious disease that spreads quickly and causes death. In Britain, plagues, killing tens of thousands of people, have struck many times.  One of the worst plagues that happened in British history was the Great Plague in 1665 - almost 100,000 people were killed just in London alone and thousands more around the country.  Source: History Today What caused the plague? What the people believed:  1. Back then, people thought that the plague was caused by the positions of the planets or sent as a punishment from God.  2. It was spread by touching a cat or dog. 3. Caused by poisonous air (miasma). The real cause of the plague: However, one of the theories behind the real cause of the plague was that it was caused by germs that lived in the blood of black rats and the fleas on their bodies. These fleas would hop onto humans, bite them and pass on the disease.  These plague-infected rats and fleas were believed to have aboard boats bringing goods from Netherlands to E
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