The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor stunned America: the tragic loss of life, the crippling of the US Pacific Fleet, the suddenness of it all. US leaders and military commanders had to fashion a response, literally overnight, one that responded to the immediate problem, but also looked ahead and laid the groundwork for victory in World War II.

Join Robert M. Citino, PhD, Executive Director of the Museum’s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, for an Online Lunchbox Lecture on how the United States rebounded from the catastrophe of December 1941.