The following article is in  response to a request by a reader for facts and issues regarding Pearl Harbor. How America Changed After Pearl Harbor The December of 1941 radically altered America and its global role By MICHAEL MORELLA January 6, 2012 On Dec. 7, 1941, radios buzzed with the news that several hundred Japanese planes attacked a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans as well as damaging or destroying eight Navy battleships and more than 100 planes. Though it would be some time before people learned the full scope of the damage, within days a once-distant war in Europe and the Pacific became…