Pearl Harbor Attack December 7, 1941

What led up to this point? Japan has ocuppied Manchuria, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Singapore, Phillipines, and is cementing its control of the Pacific

Franklin D’Eleanor Roosevelt diesVice-President Truman becomes President

Germany is defeated in Berlin by Russian and then British/American Troops

Map of Japanese Occupation

Pearl Harbor The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on

Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

The Japanese Empire Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D.

Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.

Map of Attacks on Pearl Harbor

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Indonesia The Japanese occupied the

archipelago in order, like their Portuguese and Dutch predecessors, to secure its rich natural resources. Japan's invasion of North China, which had begun in July 1937, by the end of the decade had become bogged down in the face of stubborn Chinese resistance. To feed Japan's war machine, large amounts of petroleum, scrap iron, and other raw materials had to be imported from foreign sources. Most oil--about 55 percent--came from the United States, but Indonesia supplied a critical 25 percent.

Remnants of a WWII Japanese pillbox on road to Benteng Indra Patra.

Personal Stories (word attachment) The occupation was not gentle. Japanese troops often acted harshly against local populations. The Japanese military police were especially feared. Food and other vital necessities were confiscated by the occupiers, causing widespread misery and starvation by the end of the war. The worst abuse, however, was the forced mobilization of some 4 million--although some estimates are as high as 10 million--romusha (manual laborers), most of whom were put to work on economic development and defense construction projects in Java.

Pearl Harbor vs 9/11

Only two foreign attacks on America

Public opinion and American sentimentWar on terror vs WWII

Fog of War Clip20 min- 43 min46 min - ?

The Lead up to Nuclear War

A mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 60,000 feet (18 km) into the air on the morning of August 9, 1945

Section: Atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion

Homework: Read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War

Personal Story: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/hiroshima/chapter3.htm

What happened?

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