Make bright the arrows

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The Storm Breaks in the East The Rise of
Imperial Japan
Make bright the arrows Gather the
shields Conquest narrows The peaceful
fields. Stock well the quiver With arrows
bright The bowman feared Need never
fight. Make bright the arrows, O peaceful
and wise! Gather the shields Against
surprise. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• Japanese Expansion in Asia and the Pacific
• I. Japan Invades Manchuria
• (China), 1931
• A. Japan Builds up Forces in
• Manchuria
• 1. Japan Attacks Again, 1937
• 2. Rape of Nanking
• II. America's Actions in Asia
• A. Assistance to China
• 1. Financial Assistance
• 2. Mercenaries Civilian Vols.
•     a. Flying Tigers
• B. Economic Sanctions
• Against Japan

"Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch", where bodies of
mass execution victims of Nanking were buried.
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III.  Japan's Search for a New Sources of Oil
and U.S. Retaliation

• September 1940 Tripartite Pact
• Japanese Attack at Pearl Harbor,
• December 7, 1941
• C. U.S. Enters WWII

Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on
Pearl Harbor (above) U.S.S. Arizona burning
(right)
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Pearl Harbor Details

• Between 755 am and 945 am, 7 December 1941
• Japanese plan involved 6 heavy aircraft carriers
  with 24 supporting vessels, and separate group of
  submarines. 260 Japanese planes participated in
  the attack (181 planes in first wave launched at
  6am 170 planes in second wave launched at 630
  am) Japanese lost 29 planes, 4 midget subs, and
  less than 100 casualties (lt10 of attacking
  force)
• US ships of 8 battleships present, 3 sank, 1
  capsized, 4 seriously damaged additional ships
  sunk or seriously damaged 3 light cruisers, 3
  destroyers, numerous smaller vessels (Total 21
  ships sunk or damaged)
• US Aircraft 188 planes destroyed, 159 planes
  damaged (most hit on ground)
• US Casualties 2,403 dead or dying, most sailors,
  but also soldiers and marines, as well as
  civilians 1,178 military and civilian wounded

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• Recommended Reading
• Best quick sources for information (in addition
  to Currents in American History, Chap 11)
• Pearl Harbor Who Blundered? Col. T. R. Dupuy,
  American Heritage 13 (Feb. 1862)
  http//www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/
  ah/1962/2/1962_2_64.shtml
• The Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
  Created by the U.S. Naval Historical Center (site
  includes oral histories and lesson plans) at
  http//www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm
• National Museum of the Pacific War at
  http//www.nimitz-museum.org/ also includes oral
  histories and lesson plans at
• http//www.nimitz-museum.org/education/teks_ori
  ent.htm
• For more lengthy, excellent studies see
• At Dawn We Slept and December 7, 1941 by Donald M
  Goldstein, Gordon W Prange, Katherine V Dillon
  see also Katherine Dillon again for Gods
  Samurai Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor or read his
  own explanation about the Pearl Harbor attack in
  Mitsuo Fuchidas essay The Air Attack on Pearl
  Harbor in The Japanese Navy in World War II In
  the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers. For
  an excellent overview of the American experiences
  in WWII in the Pacific, see Ronald Spector, Eagle
  Against the Sun or any of the wonderful volumes
  in Samuel Eliot Morisons classic study, History
  of United States Naval Operations in World War II
  15 Volumes.