All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but the USS Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, one minelayer, and 188 U.S. aircraft.

Because it happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, the attack on Pearl Harbor led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy".

Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.

Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival's surrender to the invading Imperial Japanese Army was the largest capitulation in British military history.

The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers.

Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines were lost, 64 servicemen were killed, and one Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.

2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded.

The two Nuremberg Laws were the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households, and the Reich Citizenship Law, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens; the remainder were classed as state subjects, without citizenship rights.

The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation was decided upon when large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France.

"Asocials" (including Roma, nonconformists, vagrants, and other groups) were marked with black inverted triangles.