{"id":669056,"date":"2023-09-01T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/question\/assertion-a-japan-bombed-the-us-naval-base-at-pearl-harbour-reason-r-the-us-entered-the-second-world-war\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T02:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:44:05","slug":"assertion-a-japan-bombed-the-us-naval-base-at-pearl-harbour-reason-r-the-us-entered-the-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/question\/history\/assertion-a-japan-bombed-the-us-naval-base-at-pearl-harbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Assertion (A): Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbour.Reason (R): The US entered the Second World War."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Assertion (A): Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbour.Reason (R): The US entered the Second World War.","custom_permalink":"question\/history\/assertion-a-japan-bombed-the-us-naval-base-at-pearl-harbo\/"},"categories":[133],"acf":{"question":"<p style=\"margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; line-height:normal\"><span>Assertion (A): Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbour.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; line-height:normal\"><span>Reason (R): The US entered the Second World War. <\/span><\/p><pstyle=\"margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal\"><spanstyle=\"font-family:'timesnewroman';-aw-import:ignore\"><p><\/p><pstyle=\"margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal\"><spanstyle=\"font-family:'timesnewroman';-aw-import:spaces\"><p><\/p><\/spanstyle=\"font-family:'timesnewroman';-aw-import:spaces\"><\/pstyle=\"margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal\"><\/spanstyle=\"font-family:'timesnewroman';-aw-import:ignore\"><\/pstyle=\"margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal\">","options":[{"option":"<span>Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)<\/span>","correct":true},{"option":"<span>Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)<\/span>","correct":false},{"option":"<span>(A) is true, but (R) is false<\/span>","correct":false},{"option":"<span>(A) is false, but (R) is true<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>","correct":false}],"solution":"<span>World War II was fought between the Axis powers and the Allied powers. The Axis powers comprised Germany, Italy and<\/span><span>&nbsp; <\/span><span>Japan. The Allied powers comprised Britain and<\/span><span>&nbsp; <\/span><span>France initially. However, later on, the<\/span><span>&nbsp; <\/span><span>US joined the allied powers. Initially, the US didn\u2019t join the war to avoid the losses it had faced after the first world war. However, while Japan was expanding towards the east, it bombed Pearl Harbour, the US naval base. This incident enraged the<\/span><span>&nbsp; <\/span><span>USA, and it entered the war. The entry of the USA paved the way for the defeat of the axis powers. 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