December 7, 1941
• US entered WWII when Japan attacked navy fleet at Pearl Harbor– On the island of Oahu in Hawaii– Surprise attack
Entering WWII ended
the Great Depression
Pearl Harbor
• Japanese bombs: – Sank American ships
– Destroyed planes
– More than 2,300 American soldiers, sailors, and civilians were killed
USS ArizonaMore than 1, 100 individuals
went down with the ship.
Roosevelt’s Reaction
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States was suddenly
and deliberately attacked by naval air forces of the Empire of Japan”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE
End of the Great Depression
• Automobile companies stopped making cars– Started making tanks and military
trucks
• Shipyards operated 24 hours a day– Quicker than Japan and Germany
• Airplane industry biggest industry in 1945 Gave Allies a major
advantage in WWII
Relocation Camps
• Prisonlike camps in which Japanese Americans were held after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
• Executive Order #9066
After the US entered the war…• Women took over
jobs men had filled
• “Rosie the Riveter”
• 350,000 women served in military during WWII
• Nurses, pilots, airplane operators, and mechanics
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