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Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
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Attack on (1941).The Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Navy's base at Pearl Harbor and on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday morning, 7 December 1941, destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet and brought the United States into World War II. What President Franklin D. Roosevelt called a “day which will live in infamy” led Congress to declare war on Japan on 8 December.