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 * 1) The attacks on Pearl Harbor occured on December 7, 1941.
 * 2) Over 3,000 men where killed and 21 ships sunk.
 * 3) Prior to the attacks, the U.S. had an embargo act with Japan, depriving them of all trade with America. America hoped that this would hope to stop the expansion of the Japanese Empire into more of Asia.
 * 4) Also before the attacks, the United States and Japan began to talk about peace between the two countries.
 * 5) On November 25, 1941, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to a bunch of Japanese warships saying that they were going to be bombing Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7.
 * 6) Naval records say that in the time period of Nov. 7 to Nov. 25, about 83 secret messages between Yamamoto and his carriers had been intercepted by the United States Navy.
 * 7) In the November 25 message, Yamamoto basically explained to his carriers about an attack on the Hawaiian base.
 * 8) Thomas Dewey ran for president against Roosevelt in 1944. Dewey had learned of America's abilities to intercept Japan's radio message. Figureing FDR knew about these messages, he attempted to use them against him in the running election. General George Marshall however convinced Dewey not to, and FDR was elected for his fourth term.
 * 9) Robert Stinnett, author of Simon & Schuster’s, //Day of Deciet,// was a WWII verteran. He had been skeptical of Roosevelt's knowlegde after the attacks, and found many documents in the Freedom of Information Acts. He found many of the messages that America had incerpted from Japan, those which were clearly talking about an attack on Pearl Harbor.
 * 10) Many have said that the attack on Pearl Harbor was almost too perfect of timing to end Roosevelt's worry on what to do about the war.

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." //This is the speech that Roosevelt said the day after the Pearl Harbor attacks. However, even though I'm sure it would indeed live in infamy, this was no 'sudden attack' judging by how many secret messages that the naval base had picked up prior to Dec. 7. 1941.//

"On December 7, 1941, the Japanese air forces had attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor without warning, at the very hour when Japanese diplomatic representatives were conducting negotiations with our State Department ostensibly for the peaceful settlement of differences between the two countries." //This was said during the trial of// //Hirabayashi v. United States in 1943, about two years after the attacks. I find the statement 'without warning' to be wildly inaccurate here, on account of the messages intercepted. However, the fact that they were attacked when America was being distracted with other Japanese ordeals is quite skeptical, and one would think that we would have attempted to have been on guard at all times.//

"Now therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such action necessary or desirable, to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as the or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with respect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War or the appropriate Military Commander may impose in his discretion." //President Roosevelt said this in the Executive Act of 1942, due to the attacks on Pearl Harbor the previous year.This Act means that there were special zones where "any or all persons" may be excluded from. This Act was only made in fear that other attacks and sabotage would occur following the attacks. With this fear, it was allowed for the U.S. Army to evacuate anyone of Japanese ancestry living near the west coast to be moved inland to relocation centers.//