15 March

Today we spoke about Pearl Harbor. And we finished the the speeches about US Neutrality.The plan was we are not going to trade with them. air craft cariers didnt been given. We left out there

It was attack to GB AND US bases. IT WAS NOT ONLY ON PEARL HARBOR

You can always recognise the Japanese plain by the red circle

Early Sunday morning.

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Pearl Harbor- Dec. 7, 1941

  • attacked us on Sunday because thought U.S. would be more relaxed
  • Japanese started planning almost a year ahead
  • Yamamoto come up with Pearl Harbor idea
  • Japanese planned 3 attacks on the same day but didn't go thorugh with it (2 was good enough)
  • called operation Hawaii then Operation Z
  • 23 sets of brothers were killed on the USS Arizona
  • USS Arizona was filled with lots of gas the day before
  • women who ran a could have warned but didn't have a radio
  • Japanese was going to declare war before the attack
  • all 8 US battleships were badly damaged or sunk
  • 2,335 servicemen killed
  • killed 68 civilians and wounded 35 others
  • killed 2,335 servicemen, wounded 1,143
  • Japanese only lost 65 men with 1 soldier being captured
  • Officer ignored the warning but african american cook didn't- saw planes on radar from the west
  • Conspiracy- FDR cut off exports to Japan so they would attack us so we would go into war
  • Conspiracy- FDR had knowledge of the attack and just acted surprised
  • Conspiracy- had warning but didn't really believe they would attack us- intercepted the information
  • Magic- code name for deciphering Japanese code- knew attack was coming just not on us
  • Dec. 8, 1941 was the last time the U.S. officially declared war
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