Pearl Harbor and the American Response

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Pearl Harbor and the American Response
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Pearl Harbor

• December 7, 1941
• U.S. Naval base in Hawaii
• Japan, under the rule of Hideki Tojo, launched a
  surprise attack

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Result

• U.S. lost
• Two U.S. Navy battleships
• USS Arizona
• USS Utah
• One minelayer
• Two Destroyers
• 188 Airplanes
• 2,388 soldiers (half were aboard the USS Arizona)

• Japan lost
• 29 Airplanes
• 5 Midget Submarines
• 65 men

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U.S.S. West Virginia
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U.S.S. California
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USS Utah
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U.S.S. Arizona
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U.S.S. Arizona
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U.S.S. Arizona
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U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
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Why?

• Rising tensions between the U.S. and Japan
  throughout the 20s and 30s
• Pearl Harbor was Japans attempt to cut the U.S.
  off from aiding Great Britain

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Outcome

• Before Pearl Harbor the U.S. practiced
  isolationism
• Lend-Lease Act Aided the allies with more than
  50 billion dollars worth of goods
• Refused to go to war because of thousands of
  German Americans
• December 8, 1941 The U.S. declares war on Japan

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The End of the Great Depression

• War Production Board The creation of military
  equipment created thousands of new jobs
• More jobs for African Americans, Mexican
  Americans, and women

Rosie the Riveter became the symbol of the
working woman
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Fighting Japan

• Japan conquered Hong Kong, Thailand, Guam, Wake,
  and the Philippines
• Kamikaze Japanese suicide pilots who would fly
  their planes into American targets
• The Battle of Midway The turning point of the
  war against Japan
• U.S. begins island hopping in the Pacific

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Iwo Jima and Okinawa

• The U.S. attacks Japan
• Underground tunnels
• More than 120,000 Japanese soldiers were killed
  in the battle
• Japanese who survivedcommitted suicide
• American use ofthe islands

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The End of the War in the Pacific

• Japan refused to surrender
• The Manhattan Project Top secret program led by
  Robert Oppenheimer to build an atomic bomb
• The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Killed more than 100,000 civilians
• Forced Japan to surrender

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• WARNING The following images may cause loss of
  appetite and may remind you of trench foot

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