Pearl+Harbor

=Pearl Harbor=

When:
Sunday, December 7th, 1941 just before 8 a.m.

Where:
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA THE ATTACK MAP http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

Why:
The Japanese attacked pearl harbor in hopes to take out a large quantity of our battle ships and plane carriers, and to take out America's main battle fleet.they also thought that the U.S. would not be able to send to much support right away, so they attacked again a short time after pearl harbor in the battle of Wake Island, which they almost won (Wikipedia). The Japanese were very successful at first, but they didn't realize what the United States had in store. The attack came in two waves. At 6 am first wave of 183 japenese planes takes off from Japenese carriers. 7:15 second wave of attack with 167 planes takes off for Pearl Harbor First attack targets airfields and battleships. Second wave targets targets other ships and shipyard facilites. Three main targets of attack the Lexington, Enterprise, and Saratoga carriers of the U.S. pacific fleet escaped.(History Place)

By the Numbers:
The following is a list of how many people were killed on Dec. 7, 1941 as a result of the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor. Total 2,403 Close to 2/3 of those who died occurred in the first 15 minutes of the battle when the Oklahoma, Utah and the Arizona were bombed. 55 Japanese died. The US had 1178 personnel wounded along with an unknown amount of Japanese. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_died_in_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor source link for picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
 * US Navy 2,008 KIA
 * USMC 109 KIA
 * US Army 218 KIA
 * Civilians 68

http://www.pearlharbor.org/history-of-pearl-harbor.asp

What:
After a Soviet defeat in the summer/fall of 1941, the Japanese wanted to rush in and capture all the petroleum and other resources of the Southeast Asia and adjacent islands. But they knew they could not win against the U.S if a war were to break out. September 1940, U.S places an embargo on Japan to prevent them from exporting steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel because of Japan's takeover of Northern French Indochina. Japan signs a nuetrality pact with the Soviet Union so they wouldn't attack Japan for what they would do next. The U.S would freeze Japan's assests, keeping the oil from them and Japans army would eventually cripple and their Navy and Air Force would be useless. Japan then was preparing for two things: Get the embargo to be lifted and still get the territory they want and prepare for war. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569623/Pearl_Harbor.html

These are first accounts of what happened on Dec. 7. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm

American Response After Pearl Harbor:
U.S delcared war on Japan, but in the minds of Japan's leaders, they were already at war. American response was slow to help out in the war with Japan because FDR saw that helping out Great Britain fight Germany was top priority. Because all the artillery and manpower was in Europe fighting the Axis Powers and Japan destroyed a lot of the U.S's forces in the pacific, not a lot of help was on its way. http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/pacificwarafterpearl1.htm

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