The Road to Pearl Harbor | VIDEO & Timeline Activity

All these resources go with this episode from this History for Humans video on "The Attack on Pearl Harbor."

This is the first episode and lesson of my World War II unit that focuses on the road to Pearl Harbor attacks. Teaching through the power of story, the video explains how over a number of years tensions rose between America and Japan that culminated in the attacks on Pearl Harbor. The episode also unpacks America's isolationism in the years after World War I and how when World War II broke out, America was committed to neutrality but with acts like Lend-Lease, America was nudging closer to war. And then. Pearl Harbor.

The resources that go with it include an interactive notesheet that gets students to make predictions, analyze a photograph, define terms, and complete a cause and effect chart. Then the extension lesson is a critical thinking timeline that helps build historical thinking skills. Students read an overview of the events leading to the attack that dives deeper than the video and students pick the 6 most important events that led to the attack and then, explain how Japan and America would have viewed each event.
Students gain historical empathy and understand the complexity of history in this lesson! And there are answer keys for everything. 

I do hope you enjoy it!

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Thanks for checking it out,

Dan ;)