IN PERSON- The Strategic Significance of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

This program will be delivered via Zoom and will be streamed to our Kingsley Room. If you want to watch the program from home, register here.

This lecture presented by Mark Albertson goes beyond the attack itself. Learn about the events that led to the attack, why it happened, and how the attack on Pearl Harbor became a turning point for World War II. Albertson follows the timeline of events beginning with Japan’s rise as an imperialist power, the growing friction in the Pacific, the tumultuous 1930s that led to the 1941 attack, and the resulting consequences which officially brought America into World War II.

Mark Albertson is the historical research editor for the Army Aviation magazine, and the historian for the Army Aviation Association of America. He has taught classes on military history at Norwalk Community College as well as the Lifetime Learners Institute. Albertson has authored several books on military history.

Like all Southbury Public Library programs, this event is free to attend and open to anyone regardless of town of residency. Registration is required. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library. For more information about this program, please email Rebecca at rrandall@biblio.org or call the reference desk at 203-262-0626 ext 2.