WWII WebQuest

Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

Double click on explore the full story; this will lead you to an interactive site that allows you to explore the events Pearl Harbor. While you are exploring this site answer the questions below.

1. How does the US plan to stop Japanese expansion?

Click begin – look through the events leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by reading the full story on each page

2. Did the United States have any warning what was going to happen at Pearl Harbor (give examples)?

3. Do you think this event would have been prevented, how?

740 hours – Japanese first wave

4. Describe the Japanese aircrafts headed for Pearl Harbor:

5. What was Mitsuo Fuchida disappointed not to see, why was it important to destroy these?

Read Send the Message

6. What did the army commander first think about the low flying plane?

Read a lingering death – Click on the story of Dorie Miller under We Were There…

7. Describe the heroic actions of this man:

8. What was it so amazing that this man shoots down 3 Japanese planes?

9. Why didn’t Dorie get the Congressional Medal of Honor?

Read New Wave Reaches Oahu

10. Describe the Japanese second wave:

Read Causalities Mount, filling hospitals

11. What is the total death toll?

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the Japanese planned a series of attacks at the US in the Pacific. The Japanese seized Guam and Wake Island. They then launched an attack on the Philippines and over took American and Filipino defenders on the Bataan Peninsula

Attack on the Phillipines – Bataan Peninsula

Bataan Death March

http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/st/~ehimchak/death_march.html

12. What happened to POW’s with Japanese souvenirs? Why?

13. Describe the treatment of the POW’s

Click Next Page

14. How did the Japanese violate the Geneva Convention?

15. Describe the conditions in the POW camps:

if you would like to read more about the Bataan Death March -

http://www.bataansurvivor.com/content/the_bataan_death_march/1.php

http://ghostofbataan.com/bataan/page3.html

Japanese next target was the Island of Midway, this island was home to a strategic American airfield. A Japanese code had been broken and the US knew there was a force of 150 ships headed for Midway.

Battle of Midway - http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_midway.htm

16. Why was the battle of Midway considered a turning point in WWII?

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/midway.htm - 3rd paragraph

17. Describe the battle of Midway, how did the Americans achieve victory:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWkamikaze.htm

18. What were kamikaze fighters?

19. How many kamikaze missions were launched? How many ships were sunk because of theses missions?