Pearl Harbor

December 7 , 1941
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Japan getting ready for attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Facts
● December 7, 1941
● Oahu, Hawaii
● Hawaii was not a state yet
● Attack by Japan
● US Pacific Fleet
● (Hickman) Airforce Base attacked
● Army base attacked
Why did Japan Attack?
● attack planned for over a year
● Japanese were in peace talks with USA
● USA had oil embargo against Japan for over
a year before Pearl Harbor
● Mastermind of attack Yamamoto Isoroku
● U.S. tried to decode Japanese threats
● Japanese patient and planned well
December 7,1941
● Japanese midget submarine sunk before
7am
● Time chosen to attack because most asleep
● Japanese planes mistaken for U.S. planes on a training
drill
● first wave of attack on AFB/Army
● Battleship Row hit sinking ships
● over 2,000 killed
● over 1,700 injured
Newspaper Headline on 12-8-1941
Japanese Casualties
● Japan only lost 29 planes
● midget submarines destroyed
● Victory for Japan
● Japan fears they have“awoken a sleeping
Giant”
● surprise attack causes U.S. to get angry
Battleship Row Destruction
Pearl Harbor
● Many were saved
● Doris Miller-U.S. Navy hero
● President Roosevelt makes speech
● “Day that lives in infamy”
● U.S. Declares War- 12-8-41
● knows U.S./Allies tough to defeat
Images of Pearl Harbor
Dory Miller
-cook
-won medal-hero
-shot down 4
Japanese
planes
 USS Arizona and Pearl Harbor Memorial Today

Images of the Attack