1. World War II By: Brent Beaver, Erik Lindberg, Erika Price, Rachel Acker, and Alec Harmon

2. The Fleet At Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is a naturally protected safe haven. The plan for attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was ready by October 31, 1941.

3. Rumors of Wars High ranking American officials thought the U. S. army in the Philippines was more vulnerable (more likely to be attacked) than Pearl Harbor. To this day some people believe that what happened at Pearl Harbor was President Roosevelt’s fault. Even though they intercepted many Japanese messages high ranking officials refused to believe an attack would happen.

4. The Attack The attack started on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. 183 airplanes made up the first wave of the attack. The first wave met no resistance. Battleships were easy targets. An urgent message: Air Raid on Pearl Harbor. This is not Drill went out; the USS Arizona was gone in minutes.

5. The Arizona Seconds after the attack 2 million pounds of powder and high explosives detonated the USS Arizona killing more than 900 of her crew at that moment. The USS Arizona set a record for the most people being taken down with a ship, which is yet to be broken. The sinking of the USS Arizona changed American attitudes to fight in the war.

6. War Winston Churchill made a famous speech called “This Was Their Finest Hour” America later joined the war on December 8.

7. The Bomb April 30, 1945 Hitler committed suicide, which ended the war in Europe. President Truman decided not to use the bomb against the Japanese. The bomb was assembled and was detonated in the “Trinity Test” on July 16, 1945. The components of the bomb were loaded up onto a ship and taken to Tinian, which was an American held island south of Japan. The bomb was reassembled there and then taken to a Japanese city.

8. Truman’s Approves President Truman later gave permission to drop the bomb on Japan, no sooner than August 2. The bomb was expected to be dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

9. Hiroshima On August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb called “Little Boy” was dropped at exactly 8:15:17. “Little Boy”, containing 13,000-15,000 tons of TNT, killed thousands of people died Smaller bombs were waiting to be dropped on other Japanese cities forcing the people to evacuate their homes.

10. Nagasaki A Plutonium bomb was originally planned to be dropped on the city of Kokura. Since visibility was limited the bocks car carrying the Plutonium bomb diverted to the city of Nagasaki. The city of Nagasaki was devastated. After the bombing at Nagasaki the U.S. was out of atomic bombs.