Many people did not know that pearl harbor was going .
to be bombed. Many people mourned their lost ones in the destruction we know as Pearl .
Harbor. Total number of people left dead were 2,403. A declaration of war was initiated on .
December 8, 1941 at 4:10 P.M by President Roosevelt. (Wels 157) Wall Streets stocks sank .
on December 7th, .
1941, then rose back up to new highs two days later.(Wels) Just a few hours after the bombing .
had occured all schools on Oahu were ordered to close because of a state of emergency .
announced over radio by Governor Poindexter. (Pearl Harbor) Immediately after the attacks, .
Honolulu police raided Japanese embassy finding them burning documents that the U.S. had .
signed. American Planes flew north in search for the enemy with negative results. President .
Roosevelt and the Governor of Hawaii agree that it was necessary that the military take over the .
civilian government. (Pearl Harbor) Many people wanted to help the war after they had heard of .
the bombings and even the women started to help by collecting tin cans to recycle to help build .
more supplies for the men in the war and even stopped wearing nylons so that they could use .
the nylon for more important things like ropes and strats for backpacks and such for all the men .
at the war. .
Japanese-American students were scared after they had .
heard that their country had bombed the U.S. One of the Japanese students brought up the .
word "conentration camp" which scared many of them. So many Americans were so mad at .
the Japanese that they started to call them "Japs" and started to make posters of them being a .
snake and biting down on the Americans because America wanted everyone to hate the .
Japanese and so that they could tell them apart from other races like Cambodian and Asian. .
"In the first discharge of emotions touched off by .
Japanese assaults on their nations. U.S. citizens have been demonstrating a distressing .