The many people in the United States knew that pearl harbor was going to be bombed, bu

Pearl harbor was an incident that could have been avoided if some of these things that were mentioned were acted upon instead of not being listened to. If the Americans were not so cocky and could have seen that japan was actually more capable than they thought it could have been avoided. If the were able to do something about the number of spies on pearl harbor or if they would have had better machines to decode the coded messages. It also could have been avoided if Roosevelt would have acted on some of the messages that he received from emperor Togo or if he would of warned the people on pearl harbor live could have been saved. These are all things that could have been done to prevent the war from happening or prevent so many human lives from deign. But we can’t change what has passed. We can just look back and learn.

The Japanese were very smart people. They were very good spies . The United States knew that Hawaii was full of Japanese spies but because of the United States constitutional rights we could do basically nothing about it. Japanese spies like Kohichi Seki, who was Honolulu’s consulate’s treasurer. Kohichi traveled all around pearl harbor taking notes about basically everything about the pearl harbor. Kohichi particularly paid very close attention to the United States warships and their aircraft carriers. Kohichi took notes about what times they come in and out of the harbor and were they usually stayed in they harbor. Because of spies like Kohichi the Japanese had a very good idea of what pearl harbor was like and what we be the best way to go for an attack.(road to pearl harbor,4)

The Japanese spies helped out a lot in telling the Japanese counsel were the United States ships were at. The counsel did not think that this was very accurate information. After the Japanese counsel decided this japans naval intelligence asked Japan’s consul general in Honolulu for a grid of the exact location of American warships and aircraft carriers. The Japanese sent this message in code but in about an hour the American decoded the message. The officers who read the message saw this as a dead give away that pearl harbor was going to be bombed. The officers allowed Japan’s Honolulu general to send the message but they made him leave off the warships and aircraft carriers with a note that said “ it is not important right now as to were are warships and aircraft carriers are located (mother of all conspiracies, 17).

Another reason people believe that Roosevelt was to blame for the bombing of pearl harbor was that he knew that it was going to be bombed. Roosevelt knew that pearl harbor was going to be bombed because Roosevelt’s secretary of war had this in his diary. “Franklin D. Roosevelt stated today that we were likely to be attacke

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