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Pearl Harbor Timeline
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The Pearl Harbor Timeline for kids:
Timeline of Events leading to Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Timeline:
1931 - The Japanese
military began to take control from the civilian
government and establish a military government beginning
the rise of
Japanese Militarism
and the policy of aggressive expansion
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1931 - September: The
Japanese, led by General Tojo, invaded the resource-rich
province of Manchuria in Northern China. The British and
the United States support China against the actions of
the Japanese.
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1932 - Japan completes it's occupation of Manchuria
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1933 - Japan announced that it was withdrawing from the
League of Nations
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1937 - Japan attacks China marking
the beginning of total war between China, under Chiang Kai-shek, and
Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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1937 - December: The USS Panay
gunboat was sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Yangtze River outside
Nanking on 12 December 1937
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1938 -
Congress pass the 1938 Naval Act on May 17, 1938. The
legislation "mandated a 20% increase in strength of the
United States Navy" in order to triple the size of the
US naval fleet by 1944.
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1938 - The Japanese declares its policy to
establish a "new order in East Asia"
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1939 - July 26, 1939: US
Secretary of State, Cordell Hull gives formal notice for
termination of the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and
Navigation with Japan in retaliation for its
colonization of China
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1939 - September 3, 1939: WW2 broke out as Britain and France declared war on Germany
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1939 - September 5, 1939: The United States
declares its neutrality in WW2
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1940 - The Japanese begin to fortify
the Marshall Islands located between Hawaii and the Philippines
posing a significant threat to American, British and Dutch colonial
possessions
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1940 - June: FDR orders the US
Pacific Fleet to move its main Pacific base from California to Pearl
Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands as a deterrent to Japanese aggression
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1940 - July 1940: US Congress passed
the Export Control Act limiting exports to Imperial Japan. The
embargo halted the shipment of items including airplanes, machine
tools and parts and aviation gasoline.
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1940 - September 1940: The Tripartite Pact was signed
forming the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan
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1941 - April 1941: President Roosevelt extends
lend-lease aid to China for their war against the Japanese (refer to
the Lend-Lease Act )
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1941 - July 1941: Japan invades and occupies Vietnam in
Southern Indochina.
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1941 - July 1941: General Douglas MacArthur was
sent to the Philippines to build up American defenses
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1941 - July 26, 1941: The US freeze Japanese assets and
Japanese bank accounts in America
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1941 - August 1, 1941: The US place an embargo on
crucial oil shipments to Japan
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1941 - November 3, 1941: The Japanese
military present a plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor to Emperor
Hirohito which he approved at the Imperial Conference on November 5,
1941 providing a diplomatic settlement with the US was not achieved
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1941 - November, 1941: Negotiations
with the US failed and the Japanese government made the decision to
launch a surprise air attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at
its Pearl Harbor base
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1941 - Saturday, December 6: President Roosevelt makes
an appeal for peace to avoid War in the Pacific with Emperor
Hirohito - there was no reply.
Pearl Harbor Timeline:
1941 - Saturday, December 6: The U.S.
code-breaking service deciphers part of Japanese message
believing a Japanese attack somewhere in Southeast Asia
is imminent. The U.S. War Department sends out a warning
but delays prevent the alert being received before the
Japanese attack
Pearl Harbor Timeline:
1941 - On Sunday morning on 7 December 1941 the Japanese
attack Pearl Harbor.
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The Pearl Harbor Timeline for kids:
Timeline of Events leading to Pearl Harbor
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What happened during the attack?
Admiral Husband E.
Kimmel was in command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii and
together with Lt. Gen.Walter C. Short, commanding general of the
Hawaiian Department, prepared for the defense of the Hawaiian
islands. On Sunday morning on 7 December 1941 the
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on
the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.
The following fact
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The Pearl Harbor Timeline for kids:
Timeline of Attack on Pearl Harbor - 7 December 1941
Pearl Harbor Timeline:
05.00am - The Japanese
attack force, consisting of six
Aircraft Carriers with 423
planes, under the command of Admiral Nagumo, prepare to
attack the US base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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06.00am - The first attack
wave of 183 warplanes, consisting of 51 dive bombers, 40
torpedo bombers, 50 high level bombers and 43 fighters, led by Comdr. Mitsuo Fuchida
prepared to take
off from Japanese aircraft carriers located 230 miles
north of Oahu heading for the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese submarines launched
torpedoes at the battleships.
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06.45am - The USS Ward sinks a Japanese midget submarine
outside the entrance of Pearl Harbor.
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06.53am - The USS Ward sends a message to Naval
Headquarters, at Pearl Harbor stating "We have attacked, fired upon,
and dropped depth charges upon submarine operating in defensive sea
area."
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07.02am - Opama Radar Station on Oahu
picks up flight of unidentified planes bearing in 132 miles north of
Oahu. The information center at Fort Shafter assumes that the flight
is a group of twelve expected American B 17 Flying Fortresses
traveling from California to the Philippines via Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor
Timeline: 07.15am - The message from the USS Ward is encoded and
eventually makes its way to Adm. Kimmel who decides to "wait for
verification of the report" because there had been so many recent
"false reports of submarines".
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07.15am - The Japanese launch their second wave of 168
aircraft
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07.49am - Comdr. Mitsuo
Fuchida issued the first wave Japanese attack order by exclaiming
the codeword "Tora!
Tora! Tora!", literally meaning "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
indicating that
they had surprised the enemy with a lightning attack
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07.55am - The first wave of
Japanese aircraft begin the attack that includes the US
warships in Pearl Harbor and the air stations at Hickam,
Wheeler, Ford Island, Kaneohe and Ewa Field.
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07.55am - Comdr. Logan C.
Ramsey orders telegraph operators to transmit an uncoded
message to every base and ship. The message read AIR
RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL
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08.00am - The expected
American B 17 bombers were unarmed and unaware of the
Japanese attack. They could only dodge Japanese fighter
planes and U.S. anti-aircraft gunfire as they prepared
to land at Oahu.
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08.00am - There were 100 ships in Pearl
Harbor but the primary targets of the Japanese were the 8
battleships anchored there. Seven battleships were moored on
Battleship Row along the southeast shore of Ford Island and the USS
Pennsylvania was in dry dock across the channel.
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08.10am - The attacks on the
8 battleships began:
● The USS
Arizona was struck by a torpedo, killing 1,177
aboard
● The USS
Oklahoma was hit by five torpedoes and turned
turtle. 429 men died
● The USS West
Virginia was hit by two bombs and seven torpedoes.
106 died
● The USS
California was hit by two bombs and two
torpedoes.100 died
● The USS Nevada
was hit by six bombs and one torpedo. 60 died
● The USS
Tennessee was hit by two bombs. 5 died
● The USS
Maryland was hit by two bombs. 4 died
● The USS
Pennsylvania (Kimmel's flagship) was in dry dock and
hit by one bomb. 9 died
● All but the
Arizona, Utah, and Oklahoma were repaired and sailed
again
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08.10am - President Franklin D. Roosevelt learns about the
attack on Pearl Harbor
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08.17am - The destroyer USS Helm emerged from the channel
and engaged a Japanese mini submarine
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08.35am - The first wave of attacks on Pearl Harbor end
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08.39am - The destroyer USS Monaghan engaged and sunk a
second Japanese mini submarine
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08.54am - The second wave of
Japanese aircraft begins, consisting of 35 fighters, 78
dive-bombers, and 54 high-altitude bombers targets other
ships and shipyard facilities.
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09.30am - The destroyer USS Shaw is destroyed
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10.00am - The victorious Japanese attack force returned to the
Japanese fleet. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the
loss of 29 planes and a handful of midget submarines
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10.00am - The attack took a terrible toll on the US Pacific
fleet
● 21 of the 96 ships at anchor were
destroyed and many were severely damaged
● Of the 394 planes at the Hickam, Wheeler,
and Bellows airfields, 188 were destroyed and 159 were damaged
● The death total was 2,403 (including 68
civilians) and the number of wounded total was 1,178
Timeline of Attack on Pearl Harbor - 7 December 1941
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