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“The Japanese underestimated how incredibly angry the attack on Pearl Harbor would make the American people,” said Edward F. Haas, a Wright State University history professor who teaches a course on the American experience in World War II.
There was an underestimation on the American side as well.
“We thought of the Japanese as being what we would now call a Third World country, and underestimated their military,” Haas said.
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