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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Dual Diploma U.S. History
Jacopo Marchesan
The attack
- Date: Sunday, December 7, 1941
- Hour: 6 a.m.
- What happened: from the carriers that were situated in the northest part of the islands of Hawaii, precisely near Oahu, 183 planes of the Japan army left to the Pearl Harbor, where the U.S. Pacific Fleet were located
The attack
7:02 a.m.
- Date: Sunday, December 7, 1941
- Hour: 7:02 a.m.
- What happened: At 7.02 a.m, two radars operators of the U.S. station located the japanese groups of aircraft flying. They said what they saw on the radars to a younger officer that ignore them, because that day there were a flight of B-17. He would have to listen to the operators because something bad was gonna happening
7:55 a.m.
- Date: Sunday, December 7, 1941
- Hour: 7:55 a.m.
- What happened: At this time, followed by the battle cry: "Tora! Tora! Tora!", that means "Surprise Attack Success!!" repeated three times, a Japanese ship and 360 airplanes of the Japanes army started bombing the U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor
9:45 a.m.
- Date: Sunday, December 7, 1941
- Hour: from the start of the bombing until 9:45 a.m.
- What happened: the consequences of the japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor were devasting: there were a lot of dead people, 2403 estimated, both civilians and servicemen and a lot of wounded too, 1178 estimated. Obviously also ships and airplanes of the U.S. army, that were the principal objectives of the attack, were completely destroyed, we know for sure that the U.S. army that day lost 5 ships, 3 light cruisers and also the incredible number of 188 aircraft.
The reports
- Date: Sunday, December 7, 1941
- Hour: 6 a.m.
- What happened: Because of retardments, the japanese message of war arrived at 2:30 p.m. to Cordell Hull, he was the Secretary of State, at that time Hull was reading the reports of what happened at Pearl Harbor
The broadcasting of the fact
- Date: Sunday, December 7, 1941
- Hour: few hours after the bombing
- What happened: the principal U.S. broadcasters such as the national TV channel or the radios or the newspapers popularized the news of the attack made from the japanese army on Pearl Harbor. The broadcasting of the fact caused the desire to fight in the young men, to redeem their country, so a big influx of new soldiers came into the U.S. army to fight in the WWII
The day after
- Date: Monday, December 8, 1941
- Hour: from 12:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.
- What happened: first of all, President Roosevelt asked to the Congress to declare war on Japan, and in his ten minutes speech he called the day before (December,7,1941) "a day which will live in infamy". The request was passed to the vote with a result of 82 – 0 in the Senate and in the House the result was 388 – 1. After that quick votation President Roosevelt wearing a black armband to symbolize the losts of the day before, signed the declaration at 4:10 p.m.
The days after
December 11, 1941
- Date: Thursday, December 11, 1941
- Hour: the entire day
- What happened: on this date after the U.S. war declaration, other two nations declare war against the U.S.A: Germany and its allied, Italy. Now the arrays of war were defined: on one side Italy, Germany and Japan, on the other, the Allies with England, France and the new-entry, the U.S.A.
May-June 1942
- Date: May-June 1942
- Hour: non specified
- What happened: in this period of war, the Americans stopped the Japanese offensive in the two battles of the Coral Sea, that is situated in front of the coasts of New Guinea, and the Midway Islands, in the west part of Hawaii: in these first naval battles in which the fleets faced each other without seeing the enemy, separated from tens of kilometers, they bombed each other with the devices that took off from the big aircraft carriers
February 1943
- Date: February 1943
- Hour: non specified
- What happened: after the American landing troops (the Marines) conquered the island of Guadalcanal in February 1943, it started a really long, bloody and exausting march of approach to Japan began, the U.S. troops conquered one Pacific island after another and the reached Japan too
Cite Sources
- Text:
- https://si.agilixbuzz.com/student.html#/activity/67715838/item/d2l_970790_FOLDER
- http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/pearlharbor.htm
- http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor/videos#attack-pearl-harbor
- http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/pearl-harbor/?ar_a=1
- Pictures:
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- Videos:
- https://www.youtube.com
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