The following chronology of some of the important events from 1941-1946 will help you with your Life magazine assignment. Japanese air forces also attack U.S. bases in Guam, the Philippines, and Wake Island.
Japan formally declares war on the U.S. after the attack.
Allied nations sign pact, agreeing not to make separate peace with Germany. German General Karl von Rundstedt attempts offensive in Ardennes. The conflict is the last major German offensive of the war. Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and other Allied leaders confer about postwar organization. Germany will be divided into separate zones, each occupied by Allied forces.