The shares of Social Security benefits subject to the individual income tax have grown rapidly since 1984, when benefits first became taxable. Initially, no more than 50 percent of benefits were subject to tax for higher-income taxpayers, and all of those taxes were credited to the Social Security trust funds.
The effect of the attack of Pearl Harbor was that it forced the U.S. into a war with Japan; a war that ended in the unleashing of the worlds first, and hopefully last, use of a nuclear bomb in an attempt to defeat an enemy.
View All Tours. Pearl Harbor was the site of an event that changed not only the United States but the world. December 7th, 1941 marks the fateful day the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting base on the island of Oahu. The shocking offensive left 2,403 dead and over 1,000 wounded.