Monday: No School
Tuesday:
- Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
- The League of Nations condemned the action but could not enforce its authority as it had no military force
- The message sent to aggressive countries was that a major power could get away with using force because Great Britain and France did not want war
- Japan dropped out of the League of Nations shortly after invasion
- China Incident- July 1937
- Rape of Nanking- Late 1937-Early 1938
- A mass killing of Chinese people (up to 300,000)
- Mass raping of Chinese women and girls
- Mass looting and arson
- Some in Japan have denied that the military killed civilians for no reason
- Still causes tension between the two countries today
- There was a war crimes trial after the way to try Japanese soldiers for participation
- Overall, throughout WWII, Japan killed almost 6,000,000 people:
- Chinese
- Indonesians
- Koreans
- Filipinos
- Indochinese
- Western prisoners of war
- Quarantine Speech- 1937
- Panay Incident- December 1937
- American gunboat attacked on river in China by japan
- 3 US troops killed, 45 wounded
- Japan said it was an accident, apologized and paid US money
- Worsened US-Japanese relations
- Tripartite Pact is signed forming Axis Powers- 1940
- Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact
- The USSR and Japan signed an agreement to not fight one another in April, 1941
- Japan considered breaking this once Germany (their ally)
- The USSR broke this treaty when they declared war on Japan in August 9, 1945
- The Road to Pearl Harbor
- Japanese Leaders
- Hideki Tojo
- Emperor Hirohito
- Admiral Yamamoto
- Basics of Pearl Harbor Attack
- Date:
- December 7, 1941- Sunday- 7:40 AM and 8:50 AM
- Location:
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
- War Results:
- 1.) Japanese major victory
- 2.) U.S. Declarations of War on Japan
- 3.) Germany and Italy Declare War on the U.S
- 4.) U.S. Declares War on Germany and Italy
- Battle Results:
- 1.) All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk
- 2.) Three cruisers, three destroyers, and anti-aircraft ship and one minelayer ship were sank or damaged
- 3.) 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed (Pacific Fleet)
- Deaths/Casualties:
- 1.) 2,402 killed
- 2.) 1,282 wounded
- Date:
Wednesday: Atomic Bomb
- Fireball
- A ball filled with combustibles or explosives
- Shock wave
- A region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body
- Radioactivity
- Emitting or relating to the emission of ionizing radiation or particles
- Black rain
- Rain polluted with dark particulates such as rain dust
- Radiation
- The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization
- Kimono
- A long, loose robe with wide sleeves and tied with a sash, originally worn as a formal garment in Japan and now also used elsewhere as a robe.
- A long, loose robe with wide sleeves and tied with a sash, originally worn as a formal garment in Japan and now also used elsewhere as a robe.
- Rationed
- Allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity)
- Internment Camp
- Internment means putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime. During World War II, the American government put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, fearing they might be loyal to Japan.
- Disintegrated
- Break up into small parts, typically as the result of impact or decay
- Black Market
- An illegal traffic or trade in officially controlled or scarce commodities
Thursday:
- USS Arizona Memorial
- The names of the Arizona's dead are engraved on this white marble wall at the memorial
- Pearl Harbor Propaganda
- Remember Pearl Harbor
- This was one of the most patriotic songs during World War II
- It was played at family and religious gatherings throughout the country
- Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
- After Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940, US stopped trading oil with Japan
- Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April, 1941 guaranteeing that Japan and USSR would not go to war
- Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
- Only way to force US' hand was to hit them hard in a surprise attack forcing them out of the war
- Japan knew that this plan was a huge risk, but thought it was the only way to defeat US
- Plan backfired. Instead, Japan "awoke a sleeping giant"
- December 8, 1941
- FDR's War Speech
- FDR's war Message
- Pearl Harbor was not the only area Japan attacked on December 7
- "Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya"
- "Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong"
- "Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam
- "Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands"
- "Last night Japanese forces attacked wake Island"
- "This morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island"
- December 7, 1941- Philippines
- Bataan Death March- Philippines-1941
- Up 10,000 Filipino and 650 American POW's died during march
Friday:
- Doolittle's Raid- April, 1942
- Battle of Coral Sea-First Turning Point in Pacific
- Battle of Midway- June 1942- Major Turning Point in Pacific
- Guadalcanal- August 1942-February 1943
- Kamikazes
- Battle of Leyte Gulf- Philippines
- MacArthur's Return to the Philippines
- Iwo Jima- February- March 1945
- 6,821 US Deaths
- Raising Flag on Mt. Suribachi
- Battle of Okinawa- April- June, 1945
- Summer 19450 Preparing for the invasion of Japan
- Operation Downfall
- Planned for October 1945
- Estimated to have over 1 million casualties
- Estimated to have 267,000 deaths
- The Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- Trinity Test- July 16, 1945
- Enola Gay
- Paul Tibbits
- Hiroshima Bombing
- "Little Boy"
- Atomic Shadow
- Radiation Sickness
- Nagasaki Bombing
- "Fat man"
- Bockscar
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