Wednesday Warm-Up

• In your warm-up section answer the following question:

What does tragedy do for a country and its people?

• Be prepared to share your response

Allied ColoniesAllied Colonies• Roosevelt’s primary goal from 1939-1941 was

to help its allies defeat the Axis Powers.

• Roosevelt wanted to discourage the Japanese from attacking American, British and French colonies in Asia.

IsolationismIsolationismThe United States wanted to practice isolationism.

“Leave us alone.”

“We have protective barriers—the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans

“Japan is not capable of an attack on Pearl Harbor, their effective striking ability is insufficient.

CongressCongress

• Few military appropriations• The American people agreed with Congress in an

unwillingness to support an adequate military until it was too late.• Obsolescence: ships, planes, weapons• Result of the Great Depression

FDR’s Export Control FDR’s Export Control ActAct

• June 1940 Congress passed the Export Control Act, allowing Roosevelt to restrict the sale of strategic materials (materials important for fighting a war) to Axis Powers.

• Roosevelt blocked the sale of airplane fuel and scrap iron to Japan.

FDR’s Oil EmbargoFDR’s Oil Embargo

• 1941, Roosevelt began sending aid to China. (Lend-Lease Act) After the invasion of Manchuria, Japan controlled most of the Chinese Coast.• Roosevelt placed an oil embargo oil embargo on Japan and

made clear the embargo would only be lifted if Japan withdrew from China.

* Remember, China is a member of the Allied powers!

Japan’s Response to Japan’s Response to the Oil Embargothe Oil Embargo

• The war against China was now in jeopardy because Japan lacked oil and other resources.

• Japanese military planned to attack the resource-rich colonies in Southeast Asia.

• Planned to seize the Philippines and attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor OverviewWhile watching the following news clip pay attention to the events that took place on December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor News Special

Dec 7th,1941 Radar “sees” Hundreds of Planes!

The men reported their findings to the temporary information center at Fort Shafter.[3] The information center staff had gone to breakfast and Lt. Kermit Tyler[5] received the report.[3] Tyler reasoned that the activity was a flight of Army B-17 Flying Fortress bombers scheduled to arrive that morning and advised the radar crew not to worry

On December 7, 1941, the Opana Radar Site was manned by Private Joseph L. Lockard and Private George Elliot, who detected approaching aircraft at 7:02 am (past the end of the site's scheduled operating day). Since the truck to take them to breakfast was late the pair continued to practice with the radar equipment.

USS WARD sinks a Japanese midget sub

The commander of the USS Ward failed to tell Pearl Harbor that they had SUNK the sub.

Japanese Prepare for Attack “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”

December 7, 1941- American Pacific Fleet is surprisingly attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

An attack fleet was sent across the Pacific to within 200 miles of Hawaii

Japanese aircrafts took off from aircraft carriers in two waves

Japanese Target the Airfields

• Japanese pilots first destroyed 3 American airfields• Wheeler, Hickam and Kaneohe

Battleship Row Attack on Battleship Row

7 American battleships were lined up on Battleship Row that day

The Japanese attack centered around destroying those battleships

Battleships such as the Arizona, Nevada, West Virginia, Oklahoma and the California were either heavily damaged, sunk or flipped over

•Sixty nine (69) years after the explosion that destroyed Arizona, oil leaks from the hull still rise to the surface of the water.

•Arizona continues to leak about a quart (0.95 L) of oil per day into the harbor.

•Survivors from the crew say that the oil will continue to leak until the last survivor dies.

USS ARIZONAUSS ARIZONA

Roosevelt Addresses Congress

Roosevelt Speech

United States

President Franklin

D. Roosevelt

signing the

declaration of war against

Japan, in the wake

of the attack on

Pearl Harbor.

December 8, 1941

America Enters WWII Even though the attack was only 2 hours long it killed nearly 3,000

Americans and crippled the American Pacific Naval Fleet December 8, 1941- The United States declares war on Japan Germany and Italy declare war on the United States The United States had officially entered in World War II

Results of the RaidSunk or damaged:

18 warships8 Battleships3 Lt. Cruisers3 Destroyers

3 Oilers4 Auxiliary

87 Navy aircraft 77 Hawaiian aircraft 128 aircraft damaged

About 2400 deaths 1200 woundedJapanese losses; 29 aircraft 1 submarine, 5 midget subs.