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Go to: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/pearl-harbor /?ar_a=1 and click on “Attack map”. Use the interactive map to answer the following questions. Please ensure you not only use the map but also read the “full Stories” and “I was there” segments. Attach this doc to edmodo when complete. Be sure your name is on it. 1. What is the exact date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
2. How did the United States attempt to halt the Japanese before the attack? They shot the submarine and it sunk.
3. On which Hawaiian island is Pearl Harbor located?
OAHU
4. What did Bert Davis and Warren Law think the chances were for a Japanese attack?
Bert
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5. How many Japanese planes were in the first wave of the attack?
183
6. Which ship fired the first shots of the war between the U.S. and Japan? Did the first shot hit?
The Us Destroyer Ward and the first shot did not hit but the second one did.
7. At what time did the Ward report that it had been engaged?
6:30
8. Why does this message move so slowly?
9. At 0720 an officer in training shrugs off reports of the planes that were sighted…why? For security reasons he cannot tell radio operators.
10. At 0733 a message arrives in Honolulu, what happened that led Roosevelt to believe there may be an attack?
A decoded japanese message.
11. According to Japanese pilot Haruo Yoshino, how did they judge how high to fly?
If the spray from the torpedo hit the wings
12. When the attack started what had the Japanese hoped to see, and didn’t? aircraft carriers
13. How did Warren Jones know that this was not a drill? 0755
He heard guns firing from his side of defense
14. What mistake on the part of the Japanese led to the Utah being hit?

They saw the wood-covered decks, and hought she was a carrier
15. After reading about the Oklahoma, what happened which made it hard for the

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