World War 2 (Pearl Harbour)

By GHTY

  • Tension

    Tension
    During the 1930's tension had grown between America and Japan. This all started when Japan launched an attack on China, America didn't like this so they stop all trade with Japan and other countries that traded with Japan.

  • Start of WW2

    Start of WW2
    When Germany invaded Poland. Poland ask for help from its allies Britain (and Australia) and that is the second war started.

  • Pearl Harbour Atacked

    Pearl Harbour Atacked
    At 8:00am Pearl Harbour was attacked by Japan. They used around 180 planes and sunk 4 ships.

  • Second Wave

    Second Wave
    This wave hit an hour after the first attack and 170 aircraft were used. After these two hours 18 US ships were sunken or damaged. 2,403 lost their lives that day.

  • Declaration

    Declaration
    On this day America officially began the war against Japan and joined world war 2. The people of America were willing to help in any way.

  • Tokyo and Yokohama (Doolittle Raid)

    Tokyo and Yokohama (Doolittle Raid)
    This is when America took its sweet revenge of on Japan and dropped 16 bombs on Tokyo and Yokohama.

  • End of WW2

    End of WW2
    When all the fighting of world war 2, finally came to a stop.