General Douglas MacArthur faced pressure after the Japanese resumed their attack on the Philippines, with intense bombing of Manila and surrounding islands.

Over Christmas week of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met to reaffirm their "Germany first" policy in the war.

Following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese expanded their empire into the Philippines, Indochina, and the Java Sea. Americans in the Philippines faced serious pressure from the enemy.

In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the United States prepared to enter total war.

December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was plunged into World War II. By Christmas, 1941, half the world's population would be at war.