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A Day That Will Live In Infamy

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¨A Day That Will Live in Infamy¨ Most people think of the attacks on September 11th as the only attack on the United States, but they would be forgetting the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor was orchestrated by Japan in 1941 towards the end of World War II(WWII). This was a surprise attack that occurred off a naval base in Oahu. The United United States had been trying to negotiate with Japan for some time, but nothing ever prospered. Japan and the United States played an important part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into World War II through the people’s reactions, Japan’s power, the damage done to the United States, and Japan causing the entry to World War II. The people of the early 1940’s …show more content…

Before any of this occurred, in 1930 the United States should have taken action against Japan, but never did. They didn’t like Japan’s attitude towards China and other countries. Again, in 1940, the United States should have done something, but this time not military action. The United States tried to negotiate peace, with Japan, but nothing ever got going (Danforth, 1). Neither side could agree on one thing because they thought of them as “still a country with similar goals” and it ended in a stalemate, causing tensions to run high. This was a dangerous end to talks because Japan was already in the second World War. The United States should have and many people were expecting something to happen, but were completely oblivious to the attack on the morning of December 7, 1941. Several people were convinced that President Roosevelt had been putting pressure on Japan to make an attack on the United States, but evidence suggests otherwise (Vidyalankar, 847-856). When George Washington was president, he declared that the United States would stay out of foreign conflicts, but this was broken before World War II so that had no effect on the president’s decision making. President Roosevelt

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