Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941.

It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of

Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their

mobile radars. They immediately called this in to their commanding

officer but he told them to ignore it because the base was expecting a

squadron of friendly B-17's to be coming from the mainland. Thirty

minutes later the first bomb fell and almost killed a courier boy who

was trying to deliver a message to Pearl Harbor Naval Base that the

Japanese Imperial Navy was going to attack them. The Japanese bombers

caught the base by surprise due to the Americans' tradition of not

working on Sunday's. As the bombs fell, so did all the chances of the

United States not joining the Allies in the second world war that was

raging in Europe and the western Pacific. Up to that point the U.S.

had just been supporting the Allies but they weren't technically at

All throughout the first two years of the war, President

Roosevelt focused on making life difficult for the Japanese. One way

he did this was by creating various policies that would de

tracks very carefully so as not to leave any signs that there was foul

general population of the United States. All the facts lead to the

they might as well be the ships that are out of date and inexpensive

seems a bit odd, unless, of course, if he was planning on entering the

war. Ninety-four percent were against the United States getting

because he wanted a justifiable reason to enter the second World War.

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