‘’A date which will live in infamy’’- President Roosevelt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZLc5_l-_Q

December 7th, 1941

Imagine YOU are Japan. You are small, relatively weak, and have

few resources. The U.S. and Europe are exploiting China, you get none

of the resources.

HOW DO YOU FEEL? WHAT DO YOU DO?

Imagine YOU are the USA. You just fought a war for another country. You are tired and suffering from a Great Depression. You do

not want to enter into war, but tiny Japan (a country you trade with) is trying to take over

China and interfering with you getting resources.

HOW DO YOU FEEL? WHAT DO YOU DO?

Why did it happen?

Rape of Nanking

You STILL don’t want to enter into war, but you want Japan to leave the rest of the world alone. What do you do?

You know that the US is much more powerful than you. You have no idea if they are hungry for war or not. You know that you want them to leave you alone. What do you do?

Submarines, 2 waves of attack, and a whole bunch of miscommunications

The Numbers

• 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes (from 6 aircraft carriers)

• All 8 US Navy battleships damaged, 4 sunk• 3 US destroyers, 3 cruisers, anti-aircraft

training ship and 1 minelayer• 188 US aircraft destroyed• 2,402 Americans were killed, 1,282 wounded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt13c3olXkU

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

ZDA stopijo v vojno leta 1941.

• Japonska napade ZDA 7. decembra 1941 (napad na Pearl Harbor, najpomembejše oporišče v Tihem oceanu)

• Japonci napadejo Filipine in Malajski polotok

• ZDA in VB napovesta vojno Japonski, Nemčija in Italija pa ZDA.