1. 7. How important was Pearl Harbour ?
Task: You are going to ‘harvest’ the key information about this crucial battle. You will need to find answers to these key questions:
1. What happened at Pearl Harbour? (describe)
3. Why did Japan attack America
4. How much damage did the attack cause?
7. How important was Pearl Harbour ?
2. What was Japan like in 1941? (describe key features)
5 What tactics did the Allies use?
6 Why did the attack succeed?

2. Should America have been prepared for Pearl Harbour?
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will...
Know what happened during the attack on Pearl Harbour.
Understand how much damage the attack caused.
Outcomes: You will be able to...
Describe what happened at Pearl Harbour and how much damage was caused by the attack.
Explain why Pearl Harbour was important

3. What can you tell from these sources about American attitudes to the War?

4. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Battle of Stalingrad
“The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of WWII.” How far do you agree with this statement?
Dunkirk
Pearl Harbour
Battle of Britain
D-Day
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battle of Stalingrad

5. After WWI America believed in isolationism and staying out of European affairs. Americans believed that the War in Europe was not their problem.
What can you tell from these sources about American attitudes to the War in Europe?

6. What happened at Pearl Harbour?
On Sunday morning at 8am, December 7th this happened….

7. Brief the President!
Summarise what you have learned about the attack on Pearl Harbour for the American president Roosevelt
Write out a message tell him:
Where the attack has happened?
Who has attacked you? Why?
What the damage is to ships/people.
Why America’s finest have been attacked?
What you want the Americans to do about it?

9. Why did the Japanese attack The Americans?
Japan believed the Americans were ‘soft’ and would not fight back.
America provoked Japan into war by imposing trade sanctions and making impossible demands, like cutting off their oil supply.
Japan was already at war with China and winning. So far nobody had stopped them.
Japan needed raw materials like oil. It could only get them by invading oilfields in South East Asia
Japan wanted to build a strong Empire in the Pacific.
Japan had appointed a war-hungry General as Prime Minister
The Japanese were set up and had not thought through the consequences
Japan believed a war with America was inevitable anyway and wanted to strike first
1. Write a sentence for each one explaining how it helped cause the decision to attack
2. Which of the factors in the list do you think was most the most important reason the Japanese attacked? Why

10. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbour?
Japan was a small but powerful Island country in Asia. It wanted to create a powerful empire in the Pacific.
It had the 3rd largest navy in the world and a rich economy.
It wanted to take territory from Britain, France and the USA.
America also wanted power and influence in the pacific
Japan was angry at trade sanctions and tariffs put on them by the USA.
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito

12. Where is Hawaii?
American owned

13. Why was this Island important?
The Island was important for selling American goods around the world. The Japanese did not like America owning this Island so they decided to get it back.

14. What happened at the attack on Pearl Harbour?
They were not expecting an attack because they did not know that they were at war with Japan. They had not declared war.

15. Why didn’t the Americans defend themselves?
Officers and sailors were on shore leave (holiday).

16. Why didn’t the Americans defend themselves?
The guns of the battleships and warships of those not on holiday were not ready to fire.

18. How much damage did the attack cause?
You have 4 minutes to do some maths in the back of your book before you will have to answer 6 questions about how much damage was caused at Pearl Harbour
...Here we go!
Key: Killed/Destroyed Injured/Damaged X X X X X X 50
Navy Marine Army Civilians

19. How much damage did the attack cause?
Question 1: How many ships were sunk or damaged? 21

20. How much damage did the attack cause?
Question 2: Were 3000 Navy sailors were killed?
False

21. How much damage did the attack cause?
Question 3: How many army personnel were injured by the attack?
350

22. How much damage did the attack cause?
Question 4: 9 aircraft were destroyed in the attack. True or false?
False

23. How much damage did the attack cause?
Question 5: How many Marines were killed and injured?
150

24. How much damage did the attack cause?
Question 6: How many people, in total were killed or injured by the attack?
3850

25. Did the president know about the attack?
Use the sources on your sheet to find evidence that Roosevelt know about the attack.
Find evidence from the telegrams (page 39) to back up each possible theory
FDR knew about the attack beforehand…
FDR did not know about the attack…
FDR had some idea but wasn’t sure…

26. Did President Roosevelt know about the attack?

29. What were the consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbour?
After Pearl Harbour, many Americans of Japanese descent suffered racism and violence.

30. What were the consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbour?
1000s of Japanese Americans were rounded up and sent to interment camps. This was to prevent an attempt to attack America from within. Living conditions in the camps were poor.

31. Anti Japanese propaganda made by the American Government

32. Anti Japanese propaganda made by the American Government