For six months after Pearl Harbor, nearly everything in the Pacific went Japan's way. Britain's supposedly impregnable colony at Singapore fell easily. American naval garrisons in the Philippines and on Guam and Wake Islands were overwhelmed, and American and Filipino armies were forced to surrender at Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines. Other Japanese forces steamed southward to menace Australia. Then the tide turned. (John M. Murrin, et. al., Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, 2^nd ed.) A) conditional statement B) report C) argument D) unsupported assertion E) explanation

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This passage provides a factual recounting of events during World War II, detailing the successes of Japanese forces in the Pacific following the attack on Pearl Harbor, which classifies it as a report.

For Six Months After Pearl Harbor, Nearly Everything in the Pacific