Pearl Harbor
Background A lagoon on the island of Oahu U.S. using the harbor since 1887 A deep water port, good for ships
Background Japan had attacked China in 1937 The United States denounced the attacks and imposed economic sanctions. Japan creates an alliance with Germany in 1940. Japan attacks the French colonies in Indochina More economic sanctions against Japan including that they couldn’t buy oil from the U.S.
Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor Japan has no natural oil reserves in the country. They are running out of oil They see no other option than to attack the U.S. in the Pacific.
Aerial View of Pearl Harbor
USS Shaw
USS West Virginia
USS Arizona
Aerial View of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor - Stats The attack came at 7:48am on Sunday, December 7, 1941 There was a second wave of attack at 8:30am 8 U.S. destroyers were damaged, 4 of them sunk 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed 3 cruisers damaged 2,403 Americans killed 1,178 Americans injured