How does the author develop the central idea over the course of
the text?
by explaining that instead of focusing on the lost
O ships, Americans were committed to rebuilding Pearl
Harbor
by giving an account of the destruction of the Pacific
O fleet, as compared to the loses the Japanese suffered
in the attack
by showing that instead of making Americans want to
O go to war, the attack left them divided over how to
proceed
by showing that instead of crushing Americans'
Ospirits, as the mapanese had hoped, the attack made
Americans want to fight back