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    bringing the United States into World War Two (WWII). Pearl Harbor remains a significant event today because of the intelligence failures and lessons. It is difficult to determine the explanations for the intelligence failures before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The most studied explanation is the lack of competent analysis of plentiful collected intelligence. According to Wohlstetter (1963), the failed anticipation of the attack on Pearl Harbor was not due to the availability of information but rather

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    Franklin Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Address Franklin Roosevelt was the thirty-second president of the United States. He served twelve years and four terms. He fought to keep the United States out of the war and helped those nations that were threatened or attacked. As a result, when France fell and Great Britain came under siege in 1940; he began to send all possible aid short of military involvement. The nation’s largest contribution was made to Great Britain in the form of fifty old and out dated

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    Groupthink The initial notice of a conceivable Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor arrived in a coded cablegram from the U.S. representative to Japan, Joseph C. Developed, to the U.S. State Department on January 27, 1941. The Americans got a few reports that the Japanese were get ready for an assault on Pearl Harbor. Be that as it may, as this was the central command of the US armada and was accepted to be secure these notices were disregarded. The outcome was that on December 7 the US armada maintained

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    The attack on Pearl Harbor struck fear and anger into the people of the U.S. Almost immediately after the attack, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Suddenly, our national security was questioned and chaos erupted on the West Coast. Citizens in the continental United States thought that the Japanese would attack them next. Focused on revenge, racial tensions mounted towards Japanese-Americans. The unprovoked attack united the American people so intensely that over

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    “Like a thunderbolt out of the blue”(Soga 1) used this quote to describe everything he was feeling. Many Japanese-Americans were punished for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), one of the president's known for getting us out of the Great Depression. FDR was one of the most courageous and perhaps even one of the most astute political leaders that America witnessed. Everyone is amazed by one’s accomplishments, by one’s success. But everything anyone does has a purpose. A

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    The pearl harbour attack happen on December 7 1941 japan launched a surprised attack on the U.S naval base in pearl harbour in Hawaii. After two hours of japan bombing the naval base more than 2,400 soldiers were dead, 21 ship were destroyed or damaged and more than 188 air craft were destroyed. The attack on pearl harbour made the U.S to abended its policy of isolationism which is an old US foreign policy of avoiding international problems. The reason why japan attack was because japan wanted to

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    Pearl Harbor came unexpected across Pacific against the U.S. and British territories--Hong Kong, Guam, Wake, Midway, the Philippines, and Malaya. On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese planes attacked a U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. More than 2,400 Americans were killed, as well as destroying or damaging more than 100 planes and eight Navy battleships. The immediate national anger against the nature of the treachery slowly gave way to the deeper realization that Pearl Harbor was a

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    terrified people, screaming and shouting, running for their lives. Nobody was prepared for the following attack. The Japanese planes were flying towards Pearl Harbor, ready to attack. United states soldiers were ready to set sail to New York. They were suddenly caught by surprise. According to Kelly Quiroz in the article 'They're bombing Pearl Harbor!', there were a few soldiers eating breakfast

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    attack to happen on US soil, six decades before 9/11 on December 7th the US was attacked by Japanese fighter planes that killed over 1,700 men and women. The similarities between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking and are very similar. The first similarity is how the attacks were executed. Both 9/11 and the Pearl Harbor attacks were attacks that were not provoked by the US, meaning the US gave Japan and the terrorists of 9/11 no reasons to attack us on US soil. The next way they are similar is how both

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    taken place in history. The Japanese has attacked our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It wasn’t only the military personnel who were affected but it was also their families including the civilians living on the island of Hawaii. “The

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