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25 Cards in this Set
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How many ships were sunk?
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18
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How many casualties?
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3,700
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How long was attack?
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2 hours
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How many planes did Japan lose?
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29
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How did Japan feel about attack?
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Success, yet hollow victory
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How did attack positively benefit Americans?
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United America, ended indecisiveness
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Quote of survivors, etc.
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"Remember Pearl Harbor"
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When was USS Arizona dedicated?
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1962
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Why was US caught off gard?
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Delays in decoding messages.
Mistaken idea that this was a drill. |
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What did the Japanase attack first? Why?
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Attacked the airfields first, to eliminate the major threat to attacking aircraft.
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What were the Japanese's primary targets?
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8 battleship of the basic Fleet.
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Why were the American battleships so easily destroyed?
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Moored in pairs, so easily destroyed.
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What were reasons Pearl Harbor such a disaster?
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Thought a drill.
Airfields Lining Up. Radar. |
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What battleship received the most damage?
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USS Arizona
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How many died on USS Arizona?
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Total loss
1,117 killed or missing. |
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Where did bombs toward Arizona go?
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Struck superstructure,
one went down her stack. |
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How many minutes until Arizona sank?
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9 minutes.
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How many Arizona bodies recovered?
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75
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Where are remaining men?
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Still entombed in sunken battleship.
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Why was Japan angry at US?
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US emargo, and freezing of Japanese assets by US, Great Britain, and Dutch in the Summer of 1941.
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2 reasons why Japan wanted to destroy the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl harbor?
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80% of its oil cut off.
Frozen assets. |
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Who conceived the air attack?
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Admiral Yamamoto.
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Goal of air attack?
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Immobilize Pacific Fleet while Japanese forces invaded the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
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How did Japanese prepare for air attack?
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During summer of 1941 practiced dive-bombing and making short and shallow torpedo runs that resembled Pearl Harbor. Added wooden fins to torpedoes.
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Purpose of wooden fins?
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To retard premature sinking of torpedoes in shallow Pearl Harbor waters.
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