1. War in the Pacific ( )
Objective: Describing key development in the war against Japan.
Essential Question: Why did war break out between the U.S. and Japan? What were the key events and battles?

2. Bell Work With a partner construct a K-W-L chart in your notes
What do you already know (K) about the attack on Pearl Harbor or the Pacific War?
What do you want (W) to know about Pearl Harbor or the Pacific?
We will be doing the “L” (what we have learned) as our Cornell Note summary

3. Japanese Expansion Like Germany, Japan wants to expand its empire
Attack SE Asia – French Indochina and Dutch East Indies
U.S. thought Japan threatened U.S.-owned Philippines and Guam
U.S. cut off oil shipments to Japan until they withdrew from China and Indochina

5. Japanese Expansion
U.S. stood in Japan’s way of its plans for expansion in the East
Japan needs to destroy the American pacific fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
Pearl Harbor in position to directly hit Japan

7. The Attack
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plan (commander of Japanese navy)
Surprise attack by planes equipped w/ newly-designed torpedoes
U.S. knew from decoded Japanese message that an attack might come, but didn’t know when or where
U.S. thought Japan would again strike SE Asia – sent all aircraft carriers and ½ of all army planes from Pearl Harbor to SE Asia

9. The Attack December 7, 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese
Early that morning, we saw Japanese sub near Hawaii and we sank it
Not enough of a sign?
Around 20 ships, 188 planes destroyed – 2400 killed, 1100 wounded

13. The Response December 8, 1941 – U.S. declares war on Japan
U.S. joins Allies along with Russia; Germany and Italy back Japan
Japan takes control of Pacific – Guam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Burma
Japanese Internment camps – we imprison 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans

14. Recreate this table in your notes:
Event (pgs )
What happened? What are the effects? Why is this event significant?
Bataan Death March
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal