Who was FDR?
What number President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
32nd.
What was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
What country attacked Pearl Harbor?
Empire of Japan
What did Congress do in response to the PH attack?
Declared war against Japan, entered WWII.
Where were the American aircraft carriers at the time of the attack?
At sea performing training missions. None were sunk due to this.
How many years was FDR in office as President?
12 Years
1933-1945
What was the significance of the selection of Pearl Harbor as the attacker's target?
Pearl Harbor was the home of many American Navy vessels, including their aircraft carriers.
What was the name of the man who planned and executed the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
This policy of the Americans was broken due to entering war.
Isolationism
The Japanese were not able to eliminate which two important things at Pearl Harbor?
Oil reserves and American aircraft carriers.
What did FDR do to Japan to hopefully reduce their imperialism desires?
Placed economic sanctions and embargos against Japan.
What happened at Pearl Harbor?
Bombs and torpedoes were launched at American Navy vessels from the Empire of Japan's airplanes launched from distant aircraft carriers.
How did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
What was the Doolittle Raid?
Plan launched against Japan in retaliation of PH attack. American forces launched Army bombers off the flight deck of aircraft carriers and bombed industrial targets in Tokyo.
What mistake was made during the early morning before the attack by military personnel?
How old was FDR when he passed away, and what was his cause of death?
63 | Stroke
Roughly how many American ships were sunk due to the attack?
20.
Motives of the attack?
Japan wanted to neutralize all threats of their plan of imperialism throughout the Southeast regions of Asia.
Name of the conflict that happened between America and Japan as a result of Pearl Harbor.
Pacific War.
What was a technological advancement due to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Creation of Nuclear Weapons.
FDR said this in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a "date that will live in infamy".
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
American forces had much of their navy stationed in Pearl Harbor and would cause severe damage to their fleet.
Roughly how long did it take for Yamamoto to plan the attack.
Nearly One Year, Eleven Months.
Casualties of Pearl Harbor attack?
How did Pearl Harbor change the outcome of WWII?
American exited isolationism and entered WWII. The strongest world power had entered the war, and without American fighting efforts, events like D-Day wouldn't have happened and the axis powers would've reigned victorious in WWII.