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PEARL HARBOR

PEARL HARBOR. THE DAY OF INFAMY December 7, 1941. MAPPING ACTIVITY. LOCATE. Pearl Harbor Washington, D. C. Japan Germany. ,. USS Arizona. Causes…. The U.S. demanded that Japan withdraw from China and Indochina

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PEARL HARBOR

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  1. PEARL HARBOR THE DAY OF INFAMY December 7, 1941

  2. MAPPING ACTIVITY

  3. LOCATE • Pearl Harbor • Washington, D. C. • Japan • Germany

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  5. USS Arizona

  6. Causes… • The U.S. demanded that Japan withdraw from China and Indochina • Japan thought that attacking the U.S. would provide them an easy win, and a territory with abundant land and resources to rule once they were victorious. • The U.S. oil embargo against Japan was hurting Japan’s economy

  7. USS Arizona

  8. Battle Sequence • 5 PHASE ATTACK BY JAPANESE… (as noted by the U.S. Navy) • PHASE 1: Combined torpedo plane and dive bomber attacks lasting from 7:55 a.m. to 8:25 a.m. • PHASE 2: Lull in attacks lasting from 8:25 - 8:40 a.m. • PHASE 3: Horizontal bomber attacks from 8:40 – 9:15 a.m. • PHASE 4: Dive bomber attacks between 9:15-9:45 a.m. • PHASE 5: Warning of attacks and completion of raid after 9:45 a.m.

  9. Warfare Used During Attack Japan: • 81 Fighter Planes • 135 Dive Bombers • 104 Horizontal Bombers • 40 Torpedo Planes • At least 5 Midget Submarines

  10. Warfare (continued) United States: • 108 Fighter Planes (59 not available for flight) • 35 Army Bombers (27 not available for flight) • 993 Army/Navy Antiaircraft Guns

  11. Casualties Japan: • Less then 100 men • 29 planes • 5 midget submarines United States: • 2,335 servicemen killed, 68 civilians killed, 1,178 wounded • 188 planes • 18 ships (8 battleships, 3 light cruisers, 3 destroyers, 4 other vessels)

  12. USS Arizona Burning: 1,100+ servicemen died on the ship

  13. Effects/Outcome • Japan dealt a seemingly crippling blow to the U.S. Pacific fleet • Japan began their quest for a Pacific empire • The U.S. finally was forced to join World War II • “The Sleeping Giant was awakened” • The U.S. & Great Britain declare war on Japan • Dec. 8, 1941 • Germany & Italy declare war on the U.S. • Dec. 11, 1941

  14. December 8, 1941 FDR Speech “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - A date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

  15. US Mobilization Chapter 18.1

  16. Unemployment & Armed Service Enlistment, 1940-1945 (pg. 597)

  17. The Holocaust Chapter 18.3

  18. Active Map HTTP://WWW.USHMM.ORG/WLC/MEDIA_NM.PHP?LANG=EN&MODULEID=10005143&MEDIAID=3372

  19. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. • The Nazi believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that Jews, deemed “inferior”, were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

  20. Targeted Groups: • “undesirables” • Jews • Gypsies • The disabled • some Slavs (Poles, Russians, etc.) • Communists • Socialists • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Homosexuals

  21. What happened? • Murdered • Concentration camps • Ghettos • Many went into hiding or fled

  22. 1st = The Ghettos • 1939-1942 • Enclosed districts of occupied cities where Jews were forced to live under miserable conditions.

  23. 1942 Decision • Beginning in 1942, after the decision to was made to kill the Jews, the Germans started to systematically destroy the ghettoes and deported Jews to concentration camps where they were killed.

  24. Concentration Camps • aka “extermination camps” • Jews moved in by train • Women and men separated • Gas chamber • Scientific experiments • Most notorious = Auschwitz

  25. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=786http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=786

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