Pearl Harbor

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Grade 5

Learner Expectation

Content Standard: 5.0 History History involves people, events, and issues.

Students will evaluate evidence to develop comparative and casual analyses, and to interpret primary sources. They will construct sound historical arguments and perspectives on which informed decisions in contemporary life can be based.

5.09 Understand America’s role during World War II.

In this activity you will:

Learn about the events that led up to Pearl Harbor

Discover the response from the U.S. to the attack.

Write a paragraph with four facts learned from this presentation.

Japan Moves into China

Japan has become friends with Germany, but a problem for the United States, as the U.S. tries to stop Japan from moving into China’s territory.

Japan moves into Chinese territory.

Japan’s Representatives

The U.S. ended trade with Japan.

Japan sent a group of representatives to meet with the U.S. in Washington D.C. to discuss the problem.

November, 1941

Japan sends its forces to sea, headed for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Japan Strikes

On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Japanese strike the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor.

Play actual News Bulletin

December 7, 1941

Many of the U.S. military were asleep in their barracks or on ships.

Japan Attacks (taken from Japanese aircraft)

The memorial on the site of the sunken U.S.S. Arizona

U.S.S. Pennsylvania

December 7, 1941

Over 2,000 Americans were killed in the attacks which came in two waves.

December 7, 1941

After the attack the United States declared war on Japan.

Listen to PresidentRoosevelt’s Speech

To Congress

World War II

WWII lasted almost four more years.

Several hundred thousand more people died in the war.

Atomic Bomb

The war ended after the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan.

Atomic Bomb

150,000 Japanese were killed in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombing.

Writing Activity

Write a paragraph with four facts learned from this presentation.

Sources

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Facts Live video feed from Pearl Harbor. (Requires

RealPlayer with G2.)

Pearl Harbor Remembered