Today at the beginning of class the forum post leaders shared their stories. We than began discussing Pearl Harbor. Here are the presenters notes
Megan
1. What caused WWII outbreak in Asia, Europe
Europe: Germany invaded Poland Britain and France couldn’t let anything else happen so the next bad thing to happen they would go to war. The next thing was Germany invading Poland.
Asia: Japan needed more resources so they invaded countries in Asia (China) Japan invaded mainly China in Manchuria for resources. While in China, they invaded Nanking. In Nanking, they killed thousands of people, raped thousands of women, children and elderly people. China was upset so they went to war with Japan. After Pearl Harbor, China declared war on Germany.
Conner
2. Short term and long term effects on the U.S.
Short Term- The US lost 416,800 Soldiers in WWII, and 1,700 deaths of civilians due to military action from another country resulting in 416,800 deaths.
Long Term- Made over 17 million jobs for people and raised wages because products were in such high demand. The government switched to more federal law which gave more power to the government. Women got to work in factories while the men were gone and they got better wages and put them a step forward into the women's rights movement. It also helped blacks because they got to fight in the war which made the whites think different of them and also put them ahead.
http://nightnight.hubpages.com/hub/Impact-of-World-War-2-on-America-WW2
Lydia
3. What happened on this day
-On December 7, 1941 Japanese Military was sent on an attack to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the U.S to provoke the U.S. to come into the war. They bombed several Navy ships like the U.S.S Arizona, 2402 people died and 1282 were wounded.
4. How we got involved into the war
-We had been neutral even without showing true neutral actions like sending troops and ammunition to the british, but once the Japanese bombed us at pearl harbor we declared war against Japan causing Germany and Italy, Japan’s allies, to declare war on the US.
Brodrick
5. What the U.S. did in response to Pearl Harbor?
The day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of United States Congress. Then he signed the declaration of war.
Some historians believe the attack doomed Japan to defeat simply because it awakened the "sleeping giant"
5. Why did we stop trading oil with Japan?
When Japan seized Indochina (now Vietnam) in 1940-41, the United States, along with Australia, Britain and the Dutch government in exile, boycotted Japan via a trade embargo.
- They cut off 90% of Japan's oil supply, and Japan had to either withdraw from China or go to war with the US and Britain as well as China to get the oil.
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