TABLE OF CONTENTS

About This Lesson

Setting the Stage: Historical Context

Locating the Site: Maps
1. Hawaii and Japan
2. The Island of Oahu
3. Pearl Harbor

Determining the Facts: Readings
1. The Attack on Pearl Harbor
2. The USS Arizona Memorial

Determining the Facts: Charts
1. December 7, 1941, Losses
2. Brothers Aboard the USS
Arizona, Dec. 7, 1941

Visual Evidence: Images
1. The USS Arizona setting out
from New York, 1918
2. USS Arizona burns and
sinks, Dec. 7, 1941
3. Aerial and interior views of
the USS Arizona Memorial
4. Aerial view of Pearl
Harbor today

Putting It All Together: Activities
1. Pearl Harbor and the
Casualties of War
2. Comparing Textbook
Accounts
3. Survivors of War
4. Examining War Memorials

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Today the battle-scarred, submerged remains of the battleship USS Arizona rest on the silt of Pearl Harbor, just as they settled on December 7, 1941. The ship was one of many casualties from the deadly attack by the Japanese on a quiet Sunday that President Franklin Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy." The Arizona's burning bridge and listing mast and superstructure were photographed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack, and news of her sinking was emblazoned on the front page of newspapers across the land. The photograph symbolized the destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the start of a war that was to take many thousands of American lives. Indelibly impressed into the national memory, the image could be recalled by most Americans when they heard the battle cry, "Remember Pearl Harbor."