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While most Americans celebrated the country’s historic soccer win Sunday night, a vocal minority saw the opportunity to stir up a Twitter storm.

The resounding 5-2 victory by the U.S. Women's National Team over Japan prompted some people to suggest that the game was payback for the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

This is for Pearl Harbor pic.twitter.com/jd3ptnxxWM — Yung C Boy (@JGenzy) July 5, 2015

Japan wishing they never bombed Pearl Harbor right about now... — Joe Head (@JoeHeadTV) July 5, 2015

That 4th one was for Pearl Harbor. #USA — TA (@TaylorDTTT) July 5, 2015

More than 2,400 people died in the surprise assault by Japan on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii.

Others on Twitter used America's third triumph at the Women's World Cup to make barbed comments about the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, in which at least 135,000 people died.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Vancouver Three locations USA has blown Japan away — Kevin Pierce (@Kpierceswag) July 6, 2015

"Pearl Harbor" was among the most popular trending topics in the U.S. following the game, ranking alongside the team names "#USAvJPN" and the U.S. goalkeeper "Hope Solo."

The words "Pearl Harbor" typically get around 500 mentions per day, according to the analytics website Topsy. On Sunday this spiked to more than 50,000 mentions, although many of these were from people expressing outrage at the original joke.

Pearl Harbor isn't funny. Hiroshima isn't funny. Nagasaki isn't funny. This isn't WW2 this is a women's soccer match in 2015 lol — Tay (@Tayty_Perry) July 5, 2015

Pro tip: that Pearl Harbor tweet you're typing up...don't send it, keep that to yourself, you heathen. — Kami Mattioli (@kmattio) July 5, 2015