Need help with a WEBQUEST for high school students

Greetings one and all!
I am working on developing a webquest project for a high school history class. For those who don't know what a webquest is, take a look at this page: WebQuests: Explanation

As I live and teach in California, I am using the California Education Standards as a benchmark. The standard I am working on is this:
11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.
1. Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.

I am usually pretty good at finding material on the web, but I have to be completely honest here . . . I am STUMPED, so, I turn to YOU, my fellow WW2-erians. Can you give me VERY FOCUSED web-based material that addresses this ONE topic VERY CLEARLY and is NOT Wiki-based please? That thing about not being wiki-based is pretty important as my district superintendent made it clear he will fire anyone who teaches off a wiki-project. I think something like 5-8 sources would be about what I need.

I HATE asking for help in something like this because it makes me feel stupid, but I truly, honestly, can't find anything -- well, not anything WORTH a damn.

Thank you very much.
A humbled Hummel.

 

Well right here on this forum there's:
http://www.ww2f.com/pearl-harbor/43158-research-resources-pearl-harbor-attack.html
and of course if you look in Opana's sig you will find the following:
HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web
Which has a wealth of info including primary documents.
then there such sources as:
Countdown to Pearl Harbor
1941, Chronology with documents

 

As far as wiki goes while it may not be a very reliable direct source for some information it usually contains links and/or will give one a good idea of search strings to use to hunt down more reliable sources.
The Truman library would also have some relevant sources I believe and much of it is on line as well.

 

You can't go wrong with ibiblio.org & hyperwar:
HyperWar: "East Wind, Rain"--Contents
New Page 1
The Congressional Hearings on Pearl Harbor can be found here on the same website: PDF copies of the Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings before Congress

There is also the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records(National Archives of Japan): Japan Center for Asian Historical Records Introduction of Released Documents on the End of the Pacific War

You could probably find a ton of books available for preview on the subject on Google Books.

 

Here is a link to the Truman Library Online

Goto:

Truman Library - World War II Subject Guide

 

Hummel, I've moved your thread to the Information Request forum. It fits in a little better.

I wish I could add to the above, but the links already provided are rather comprehensive.

 

Takao is right "You can't go wrong with ibiblio.org & hyperwar"

And another offering from ibiblio is "Campaigns of The Pacific War" produced by the Naval Analysis Division of the USSBS. The second chapter provides some background on Japanese planning and interesting links:

HyperWar: USSBS: Campaigns of the Pacific War

Rich

 

Try EVENTS LEADING UP TO WORLD WAR II A brief blurb from the beginning:


".....FOREWORD

The events leading up to the outbreak of the war and the subsequent American
entry into it are of an importance and interest so great that it is difficult to
exaggerate The chronicle of the inexorable march of aggression after 1931 and
the failure of efforts to curb it illuminate the problems of a secure peace in
the future as no mere formal argument or debate could ever do. On the other
hand, events since December 7, 1941, presents picture of increasingly
cooperative effort on the part of those governments which look toward a
civilized world at the war's conclusion.

As a whole, the chronology was conceived as a working outline of the period
and events covered It obviously cannot pretend to be complete or historically
definitive. Such completeness and authoritativeness must await the opening of
government archives in the indefinite future. Nor should it be considered in
whole or in part to represent the official views of the United States
Government. The inclusion of any item or statement cited to any source other
than an official American publication does not imply endorsement or approval of
such item or statement by the Government of the United States or by any official
thereof.

As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives,
I am more than pleased that the Committee on Printing and the Congress as a
whole has seen fit to approve the publication of this chronology. The work
itself is a product of the Legislative Reference Service The chronology prior to
December 7, 1941, was the work of Miss Marle Klooz and Miss Evelyn Wiley, under
the general direction of Mr. Richard A Humphrey. Mr Humphrey, assisted by Miss
Evelyn Wiley, prepared the subsequent chronology. The index was the work of Dr.
A. O. Sarkissian. The assistance of Gen. Walter D. Smith and Capt Merlyn Cook,
U. S. N., in the recommendation of military events for inclusion is gratefully
acknowledged.

Sol Bloom
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs.

III

iv [Blank]

CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS FROM 1931 THROUGH 1943,
WITH
OSTENSIBLE REASONS ADVANCED FOR THE OCCURRENCE THEREOF ......"