Title: Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
1Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
2America practiced an ___________ towards other
nations before WW2
3Isolationist
4America wanted to punish Japan for invading
_________.
5China
6(No Transcript)
7Japan needs ______ for domestic and military use
but has none.
8oil
9Oil is available in ______
10Dutch East Indies
11but the ___
12US
13in the ________ Islands could easily stop the
Japanese from getting the oil
14Philippines
15SO
16The Japanese planned to attack the Americans
first, then get the oil
17The Japanese attacked __________, the strongest
American base in the Pacific Ocean.
18Pearl Harbor
19Japanese carrier AM
20The attack started at 755 AM, Sunday December 7,
1941
21BB row above
22Japanese pict BB row w/fordisland
23B-17 Hickam Field
24Shaw explodes
25USS West Virginia
26Killed 2395 (1177 on Arizona alone)
Wounded 1178
21 ships sunk or damaged
323 aircraft destroyed or damaged
27FDR to Congress
28Photos from Danielle Montecalvo
USS Arizona Memorial