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100 Days in Photographs

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The Roosevelt Administration was happy to give the U.S. press access to the images of Japanese infamy at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. For months, Roosevelt had been seeking to sway American opinion into supporting the war. Images like this one of the sinking U.S.S. West Virginia and Tennessee quickly put an end to the policy of American isolationism. Learn more and buy the book: 100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed The World. Photograph courtesy the National Archives/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images