The U.S. declared war on Japan the next day, and towards the end of the war, had embarked on a firebombing campaign that killed more people than the two atomic bombs that forced Japan to surrender.
After the second world war Japan embarked on a vigorous programme of building seawalls and dykes to protect its cities against storm surges and tsunamis.
After the war Andrew embarked on an academic career via the London School of Economics and a Harkness fellowship in the US in the early 1950s, moving to the University of Exeter to teach public administration in 1953.
But in terms of people's trust in politicians, the impression is that the government misled the country in relation to the reasons for war and embarked on it when there wasn't a proper justification.
In his fruitless efforts to recover from the war, Sassoon embarked immediately after the Armistice on a series of love affairs, many of them with high-profile figures, including Ivor Novello, Stephen Tennant and Queen Victoria's great grandson, Prince Philipp of Hesse.
After studying at Harvard and serving in the US navy as an ensign in the second world war, Lemmon embarked on an acting career first in the theatre in New York, then on radio, television and film, that spanned half a century.
After the war, she embarked on the life of a socialite, as well as one of royal duties.
After returning from Mexico, Raynolds resumed mapping the U.S. Canada border which he had been surveying before the war, then embarked on a project to develop water resources for the nation's growing capital of Washington, D.C. Raynolds traveled the Great Lakes for several years surveying and mapping shorelines while identifying potential lighthouse locations.
Unless amended, it risks bringing about the end of social housing as we have known it since the second world war and embarking on a huge new sales programme when the financial numbers to deliver it patently don't add up.
Before Emerson can get a pick in the violated ground, Amelia goes tearing after the grave robbers; their son, Ramses (the "favorite spy" of the British War Office), embarks on a secret mission to Gaza; and a horde of tourists descends to endanger the antiquities of a newly discovered tomb.
