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

planes and equipment to countries who engaged in the bombing of

attack on Pearl Harbor enraged the American commoner so much that they

Admiral William D. Leahy, then the Chief of Naval Operations, to

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

being involved in the planning of Pearl Harbor, is that the two

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

the Allies. One of these policies was the American financial and

also, somewhat, forced neutral countries to side with the U.S. because

have lost a great majority of the support he was receiving from the

reassigned to Pearl Harbor only a couple of months before the attack.

Washington left Adm. Kimmel without any knowledge of the attack until

a war plan drawn up if he said he wasn't going to enter the war? It

Atlantic, against Italy and Germany. Why would Roosevelt have

play. Roosevelt knew beforehand that Japan was going to attack, but he

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