World War II - Pacific (P-Z)
World War II - Pacific (P-Z)
- Palawan Massacre: A survivor's horrific story
- Pearl Harbor: Surprise attack on U.S. Naval
forces/ships in Hawaii
- Akagi: Japanese flag ship - (see fifth
paragraph)
- Arizona: Bombed by Petty Officer Noboru
Kanai
- Attack: Planned by Minoru Genda
- Command Message: "Air Raid on Pearl Harbor. This is not
Drill" - (see last two paragraphs for original)
- "Date which will live in infamy" - Original manuscript
(which substitues "infamy" for "world history) and audio/video
clips
- FDR Message to Churchill: Secret 30 June 1949 memo -
fleet at Pearl "vital"
- Impact, Pearl Harbor Attack: Changed American attitudes
about involvement in WWII
- Issues Before Attack: Dispute over U.S. providing Japan
with oil
- Japanese Spy: Prepared meticulous maps of Pearl Harbor
and ship locations - (see last two paragraphs)
- Martin-Bellinger Report: Pearl vulnerable to "dawn
attack" - (see fifth paragraph)
- Mini-submarines in the Harbor: Photographs, taken by
Japanese pilots, from national archives - (see third paragraph from
bottom)
- Negotiations Fail: Japanese fleet secretly leaves
Hitokappu Bay
- Negotiations Fail: Oil embargo (by U.S. against Japan)
continues
- Opana Point Radar Readings: New to military, radar
results (of approaching Japanese planes) misunderstood
- Pearl Harbor Hearings: Why was America unprepared?
- To ra! To ra! To ra! - Japanese report of attack -
meaning "success without resistance"
- Warnings: Potential of attack
- Akagi: Japanese flag ship - (see fifth
paragraph)
- Philippines: Americans abandoned by their
government
- Philippines: FDR states no surrender while resistance
possible
- Philippines: Japan disregards non-fortification Clause (1921
treaty):
- Philippines: Prisoners of war, high death rate
- Philippines: Rangers (originated in 1944) conducted
hit/run raids behind enemy lines
- Philippines: Unprepared for war with Japan
- Propaganda Posters: The United States government hired
some of the best artists of the day to create now-forgotten propaganda
posters
- Rationing: A way of life during WWII
- Saipan: A strategic battle in the War in the
Pacific
- Saipan: Major contribution by Navajo Code
Talkers
- Saipan, Lost: Tojo and cabinet resigns
- Sullivan Brothers: All five died
- Surrender, Emperor Hirohito Announces: First time
Japanese people heard him speak - (click on "he announced," fifth
paragraph)
- Surrender: Japan ends the war aboard the USS
Missouri
- Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Click on "Trial," first
paragraph
- Trinity Test: July 16, 1945 test of the atomic bomb,
including movies of the explosion.
- War Relocation Authority: Japanese-Americans sent to
internment camps
- West Coast Attack, Considered: Japan considered
attacking west coast and oil refineries
- Yamamoto: Famous remark about Pearl Harbor attack: "I fear we wake a sleeping giant"
Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic


















