The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy

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The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy

In the early morning of December 7, 1941 the bombing of Pearl Harbor

took place. There was a total of 2,403 Americans killed and President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew of the attack and did nothing to stop

it. He permitted Japan to carry on the attack. There is proof that the

president knew of the attack months before it actually took place. He

is directly responsible for the lives lost. The U.S. was warned by, at

least, the governments of Australia, Korea, Britain, Netherlands, and

the Soviet Union that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was coming.

The attack was not only expected but it was welcomed! FDR deliberately

mislead the country about his intentions to stay out of the war and

baited the Japanese into attacking. Showing you the facts, will leave

no doubt in your mind that he knew of the attack, allowed it, and

covered up his knowledge. Young adults entering a U.S. history course

will have advanced knowledge, of the Pearl Harbor bombing after

reviewing the information presented in this paper.

"For the United States, World War II lasted 1,351 days, but the

nation's greatest defeat took only 110 minutes. In about two hours,

Japanese planes from the strike force Kido Butai hit hard at the

Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor and at other military installations

scattered across the Hawaiian island of Oahu" (La Forte xi).

A paralyzing blow struck Pearl Harbor. Japanese bombers, winging in

from distant aircraft carriers, attacked on the 'Black Sunday' morning

of December 7, 1941. On December 4, silent and undetected several

hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, Japans sprawling flotilla of nearly

three ...

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...nd the Navy at Pearl Harbor were FDR's bait,

the oil embargo was his stick, the end of negotiations was the

tripwire in FDR's game of shame- a game of death for so many.

Sources Cited

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Kaplan, Morton. "Why Roosevelt Wanted Japan to Attack Pearl Harbor."

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La Forte, Robert, and Ronald E. Marcello. Remembering Pearl Harbor.

Washington: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1991.

Lord, Walter. Day of Infamy. United States of America, 1957.

Mathews, Tom, et al. "Remembering Pearl Harbor." Newsweek 25 Nov.1991:

p.30.

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