Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Miss Fisk

Opener 3-24-10

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Thoughts from Movie Clip

• Airfield attack first• Battleship row second• U.S. and Japan were in negotations of peace because

tensions were high, U.S. regularly sent gifts to Japan, Japan sent gifts back, acting like false hope for peace

• The torpedos that the japanese used in the attack were specially made to account for the shallow water of pearl harbor; wooden cross section were placed over propeller

• Only destroyers, and battleships were in port that day

• All aircraft carriers were out doing drills• Airfield attacks: all the planes in the american

airforce were grouped together making it easier to

• Two most famous battle ships: Oklahoma, and Arizona

• All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. Of the eight damaged, six were raised, repaired and returned to service later in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer

• Arizona: 1200 dead, exploded, sunk, left in place, with dead still entombed

• Oklahoma: 429 dead, capsized, turned on side, raised, sunk while in tow to the coast of California

• Two planes were able to get into the air, shooting down about 10 Japanese planes

• When the ships started sinking, doors were shut in hopes of stopping sinking, pressure o fwater made it difficult to reopen them, drowning the men inside

• Pearl harbor deaths consisted of battlefield wounds, smoke inhalation, drowning, and third degree burns from burning oil and fuel in the water,

Before the Attack

• Neutralization of Pacific Fleet– Couldn’t stop their advance in China

• Reliance on Natural resources• Export control act:– Avoid scarcity of commodities in a pre-war

atmosphere– Prevent export of war materials to Japan

Oil Exports Halted

• Invasion of French-Indochina

• Oil production in Dutch East Indies

• Fleet move from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

December 7th 1941

• 7:48 AM Sunday Morning

• Battleship Row

• Airfields

Aftermath

• 4 Battleships sunk, others damaged• 3 cruisers destroyed – raiding and protection

missions• 3 destroyers destroyed- protection on the

fleet from subs• 188 aircraft destroyed• 2,400 military killed• 1,300 wounded

Roosevelt’s Declaration of War

• President must ask congress to declare war on a country

• Listen to the speech and read along