2.  Turn to your Common Vocabulary page.  What do the following words mean? Write definitions down in your own words.  You may use your phone or a dictionary to look up words you don’t know.

3. Day 2: Pearl Harbor

4. What was the U.S. stance on WWII before our involvement?  Before 1941, the U.S. was neutral during WWII and they were isolationists while selling armaments (weapons) to its allies.  Play video “1940__America_Resolves_Not_to_Join_the_War”

6. December 7, 1941, Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The ability of the Air Force and Navy to retaliate against Japan was weakened.

7. Why was the attack a surprise?  Play video- “Americans_in_Hawaii_are_Unprepared_for_ Attack”

10. 1941, Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack brought the U.S. into WWII, which ended with Japan’s defeat and surrender in 1945.

13.  Play video- “American_Resistance_to_the_Attack_on_Pe arl_Harbor_Is_No_Match_for_the_Japanese”

15. These photographs that appeared in Life Magazine were not published until the war was over.

17. “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” - Japanese admiral

18. “A date which will live in infamy” Extra Info: President Roosevelt formally requested the declaration in his Infamy Speech, addressed to a joint session of Congress and the nation at 12:30 pm on December 8. The declaration was quickly brought to a vote; it passed the Senate, and then passed the House at 1:10 pm. The vote was 82 to 0 in the Senate and 388 to 1 in the House of Representatives. Jeannette Rankin, a committed Pacifist and the first woman elected to Congress (first elected in 1916), was the only vote against the Declaration in either house. President Roosevelt signed the declaration at 4:10 pm the same day.

19. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States enters World War II and mobilizes for war on two fronts. The United States joins the Allies which include: Britain, France, and the USSR. EuropePacific Two different locations, two different enemies, two every different experiences.

20.  The attack brought the U.S. into WWII, which ended with Japan’s defeat and surrender in 1945  British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill was thrilled that the US was entering the war.

21. “To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.” From his book The Grand Alliance

22. Handout the Declaration of War Speech and listen to the Sound Recording file of Roosevelt delivering this speech.