Pearl_Harbor

Pearl Harbor A Deep Dark Secret On 7 December 1941 the greatest humiliation and disaster in United States Navy, Army, and Government history occurred. Truly this was and is, “’A date which will live in infamy.’”(Costello 1), but not for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, rather for the deception, the misguidance, and the trickery used by the Government and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a purely artificial chess game Roosevelt sacrificed over 2400 American Seamen’s lives, thanks to his power as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. By over-looking the obvious facts of an attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt was able to control both the political and economic systems of the United States. Most of American society before the Pearl Harbor bombing believed in the idea of isolationism. Franklin D. Roosevelt knew this, and knew the only way in which United States countrymen would take arms and fight in Europe’s War was to be an overt action against the United States by a member of the Axis Power. Roosevelt also believed Hitler would not declare war on the United States unless he knew they were beatable. There are numerous accounts of actions by Roosevelt roosevelt, united, states, harbor, pearl, japan, attack, war, military, japanese, action, government, fleet, december, 1941, york, president, new, knew, american, top, toland, over, navy, memo, mccollum, information, franklin, day, control, world, steps, richardson, part, pacific