AMST 384 1st Edition Lecture 25Japanese Expansion-Japan is too small an island to be a great world power like it is today-Didn’t have natural resources to expand Pearl Harbor-9 minute attack by JapanNov 26- 32 vessels left Japan Dec 7- 183 planes came over to Pearl Harbor and was destroyed, 5 battle ships sunk and damaged, Arizona is the main memory of the attack because it was main ship that was hitNews of attack was originally heard through radio “This is no joke, this is war.”-FDR says “A day that will live in infamy” African American memory-blood banks segregated-armed forces not integrated- Dorie Miller, a Navy attendant during the attack that hauled his wounded captain to safety Propaganda images of Pearl Harbor-becomes a rallying point for furor against Japanese and joining the military -avenge-work, fight, sacrifice These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-Ex: Uncle Sam as a cartoon in the harborOnly 8 survivors leftSites of Memor0079-US land hopping campaign-iconic photograph of americans putting the American flag back up -rallying economic support for the war-image that is now on the stamp-now a monument in D.C. -Little Boy and Enola Gay-US attack on Japanese cities after Pearl Harbor -dropping of the bomb to win the war-controversional-Little Boy was the bomb, destroyed Hiroshima, 30% Japanese population killed-led to the surrender of the Japanese -controversy over the humanity of dropping this
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