Pearl Harbor ( World War II)

By :Patrick and Osvaldo

When the attack started

The attack started on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because President Roosevelt stopped trading with Japan.

• The U.S. made a law stopping oil trade to Japan because Japan was invading China.

How it happened

Japan used two aerial attack waves and in all was 353 aircraft that launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers.

Aircraft carriers are huge ships that carry planes.

Weapons

• Japan used Aircraft with bombs, torpedoes, guns, poison gases, tanks barricades, rockets, and grenades.

• U.S. (Pearl Harbor) used rocks, pistols, anti-aircraft weapons and airplanes.

Who was involvedThree important people who were involved:

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) – 32nd president of the U.S.

• Husband Edward Kimmel – commander of the Pacific Fleet

• Walter Campbell Short - U.S. military Commander responsible for the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii

• Isoroku Yamamoto - Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Husband Edward Kimmel

Walter Campbell Short

Isoroku Yamamoto