1. Bell Work:
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Admiral Yamamota, Dec following the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Copy the quote on the blank papers on your table. Illustrate ,using color, what you think Admiral Yamamota meant. Write your name on the back of the paper and turn it in.

2. Bell Work:
Using ISN page 113 discuss as a table how the United States started preparing for war

3. Bell Work: ISN pg 105
Why do you think Americans wanted to bomb Tokyo, Japan so badly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

4. Bell Work: ISN pg 113
Why do you think America wanted to bomb Tokyo, Japan so badly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?

5. United States Prepares

6. Preparing for War - chart
Tell one way each group prepared for the war: men, women, industry
Read pages

8. Primary doc. activity

9. Military
Men volunteered or were drafted under the Selective Service Act
Pass medical test
Got uniforms and equipment

10. Military Uniforms labeled G.I. meaning government issue
Trained for 8 weeks

12. Women in Military Large numbers served for the first time
Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)

13. Economy National Labor Board – settled disputes
War Production Board – charged with changing factories over to military products

14. Funding the War $320 billion spent on the war (10x the cost of WWI)
Raised taxes on businesses
Made most Americans pay income tax

15. Funding the War
Congress approved method of taking taxes directly out of paychecks (The Revenue Act of 1942)
Borrowed money from citizens – sold War Bonds