Today we started testing. According to ning, my account has been disabled so I am typing my blogs in word from now on!
I studied the information for the WW2 test. I mainly went over the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In September of 1940, the United States placed an embargo on Japan. This prohibited the exports of goods to Japan including steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel. We placed the embargo because of Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. From June until July in 1941, Japan occupied southern Indochina. Two days later, the United States, along with Great Britain and the Netherlands froze Japanese assets which prevented Japan from buying oil.
There were warnings that Japan was going to attack. It was not a full surprise. The U.S. had broken a code and knew that an attack was coming. A warning arrived from Washington, but unfortunately, the warning arrived too late. Radar technology was new at this time, and when the Japanese planes appeared on American radar, they were mistaken as be B-17's flying in from the West Cost.
There were two waves of Japanese aircrafts that flew attacked Pearl Harbor that beautiful Sunday in December. The two waves of terror lasted for two hours. Eighteen American ships were either sunk or badly damaged. One thousand one hundred seventy-seven lives were lost on the Battleship U.S.S.R Arizona. The ship exploded and sank. All eight ships of the Pacific Fleet suffered from the attack.
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