1. Unit 8: World War II

2. December 7, 1941
Japan launches a surprise attack on the US Naval & Air Force bases at Pearl Harbor

3. Hook Exercise Read the directions & the newspaper response.
Answer the 3 questions in your notebook

4. Background
In order to understand why something happened, we need to look at the context.
What was the relationship like between the United States & Japan?

5. Vocab Status quo: the existing state of affairs
Puppet state: a govt. that is supposedly independent but is in reality dependent on an outside power
Manchuria: a region in NE Asia invaded by Japan in 1931
Two fronts: fighting takes place on 2 geographically separated front lines

6. Background
In order to understand why something happened, we need to look at the context.
What was the relationship like between the United States & Japan?
Answer questions 1-6 in your notebooks

8. Just before 8am hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked
Just before 8am hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked. The barrage lasted two hours & was devastating

9. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers, sailors, and civilians died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.

11. USS Arizona Memorial

12. Response
December 8: President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
December 11: Japanese allies Germany & Italy declare war on the United States.
More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II.

13. Unit 8: World War II

14. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Brainstorm

15. Document A Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
1941 Japanese textbook excerpts
Answer the questions in your notebook
Why did Japan attack
Pearl Harbor?

16. Document B Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Japanese Expansion
Answer the questions in your notebook
Why did Japan attack
Pearl Harbor?

17. Document C Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Timeline
Answer the questions in your notebook
Why did Japan attack
Pearl Harbor?

18. Document E Prime Minister of Japan’s comments
Answer the questions in your notebook
Why did Japan attack
Pearl Harbor?

19. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Thesis Statements

20. Thesis Statement
The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was (claim), because of (reason #1), (reason #2), and (reason #3).