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Cassie Moran1st period
Pearl Harbor Attack
● The US gave money to China to strengthen resistance● After Japan overran French Indochina- Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos President
Roosevelt cut off oil shipments to Japan. ● Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto called for an attack on Pearl Harbor saying that it was, “A
dagger pointed at Japan’s throat,” because Japan is a small country with little resources so it had to attack to US to get oil
● December 7, 1941 right before eight in the morning Japan attacked Pearl Harbor● More than 2,000 people died, and about another 1,000 were wounded.● The next day President Roosevelt addressed congress saying America should declare war
on Japan and its allies, and America finally joins World War II