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December 18, 2015
THE ATTACK OF PEARL HARBOR
*Surprise military strike between Japanese and US navies at
US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941 at
7:48 a.m.
*Attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo
planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. *All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged; four sunk. *6 of 8 battleships returned to service and fought in the war. *The Japanese also sank or damaged 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers,
an anti-aircraft training ship, and 1 minelayer. *188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were
killed, and 1,282 wounded. *Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five submarines
lost, and 65 servicemen killed or wounded.
*Shock to the American people.
*Led to American entry into WWII in both the Pacific and
European theaters. *The following day (December 8), US declared war on Japan.
*Support for non-interventionism disappeared. *Subsequent operations by U.S. prompted Germany and Italy
to declare war on the U.S. on December 11, which was
reciprocated by the U.S. the same day.
https://www.schooltube.com/video/3022635678364782b210/Pearl%20Harbor
December 18, 2015
Let's read an eyewitness
account of the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Follow along in your packet
as we read aloud together.
December 18, 2015
A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
President Franklin D. Roosevelt : "Yesterday,
December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—
the United States of America was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of
the Empire of Japan…"
Listen to the speech by FDR following
the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Read
along in your packet.
(2:37 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE
December 18, 2015
Scholastic Internment.doc
WEBQUEST DIRECTIONS: Take a Web-journey back in time to
learn more about the Japanese Internment in America. Use
the link found on your worksheet. Take notes on the provided
pages in your packet as you go. You must include a minimum
of 5 important details within each topic & answer the last
prompt in a full paragraph.
December 18, 2015
Unbroken Intro
Unbroken is the true story of Louis Zamperini, a promising young Olympic runner from
Torrance, California, who was called into service on a bomber crew in the Pacific in World
War II. Zamperini's plane went down in the Pacific Ocean and he and two other survivors
drifted over 40 days living on rainwater and the occasional fish or bird they could catch.
One of the crash survivors died on the raft. Zamperini and the other survivor, the plane's
pilot, were finally nearing land when they were captured by the Japanese navy. The
Japanese did not inform America of the capture of Zamperini, and after some time he was
declared officially dead. His family in California refused to give up hope that he might
return alive, however.
The men were treated gently at first, given time to recuperate in a hospital. They were then
suddenly transferred to a Japanese prisoner camp where they expected they would be
executed. Because of his relative fame as an Olympic runner, Zamperini was selected for
especially harsh treatment by the Japanese guards, but he was not killed. He was sent to a
series of prisoner camps, eventually arriving at a camp in Tokyo where he received
particularly brutal treatment by a guard the men called "The Bird." Japanese propagandists
attempted to force Zamperini into making pro-Japanese broadcasts to America, but he
refused and was severely punished.
Louis was in a prison camp in Tokyo when American forces dropped the atomic bombs on
Japan that led to surrender. Cut off from news, the prisoners knew almost nothing about
the tide of the war until their guards informed them it was over. Louis was hospitalized and
eventually sent home to Torrance, to the delight of his family. His life became troubled,
however. He married a young woman after knowing her for only two weeks. He was
disturbed by flashbacks to his days as a prisoner and had terrible dreams of being beaten by
The Bird. He began to drink excessively and his wife told him she wanted a divorce.
December 18, 2015
The Great Zamperini
Documentary
On May 27, 1943, a B-24 carrying U.S. airman and former
Olympic runner Louis “Louie” Zamperini crashes into the
Pacific Ocean. After surviving the crash, Zamperini
floated on a raft in shark-infested waters for more than a
month before being picked up by the Japanese and
spending the next two years in a series of brutal prison
camps. His story of survival was featured in the 2010
best-selling book “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.
documentary
(35 mins)
Complete your reaction notes as you
watch.
December 18, 2015
In The Beginning
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,
1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an Executive Order
which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional
safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.
The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and
the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of
Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, most of whom were
U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.
These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children, were
incarcerated for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any
factual basis, in bleak, isolated camps surrounded by barbed wire
and armed guards.
They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs;
in some cases family members were separated and put into
different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities
"concentration camps."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gSShuQCUE
(9:26 mins)
(Public Broadcast System)
December 18, 2015
Farewell to Manzanar Intro
Farewell to Manzanar contains an autobiographical memoir of Jeanne
Wakatsuki Houston's wartime incarceration at Manzanar, a JapaneseAmerican internment camp. On Sunday, December 7, 1941, in Long Beach,
California, the family — consisting of both parents, Jeanne's four brothers
and five sisters, and Granny — are startled by news that Japan has
attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. FBI agents arrest Jeanne's father, Ko, for
allegedly supplying oil to Japanese submarines and imprison him at Fort
Lincoln, near Bismarck, North Dakota.
In February 1942, President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066
ordering Japanese-Americans to evacuate their homes and take up
residence in internment camps. The Wakatsukis, with Jeanne's brother
Woody at the head, are transported to Owens Valley, California, home of
10,000 internees. The family, overcrowded and miserable in Block 16,
endures unappetizing institutional food, dust storms, diarrhea, lack of
privacy, foul toilets, and annoying, impersonal red tape.
December 18, 2015