Three days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941, the Congress leaders were released from prison. Now Japan joined the Axis power and quickly invaded most of the South East Asia. The Japanese invaded Burma and reached the Indian border. India was under threat. In 1942 Churchill sent a senior member of the Cabinet, Sir Stafford Cripps, to try to get and support of Congress against Japanese. Cripps was a clever choice as he knew both Nehru and Jinnah. The Cripps Mission offered India full Dominion status after the war.
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