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__**Facts**__


 * Japan had taken over other places prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. should have been aware of this and prepare for any aggression from Japan.
 * United States cut off trade with Japan to stop their movement. This could have been a good motive to attack the U.S.
 * The United States failed to classify Pearl Harbor as Japan's target that later generated accusations that President Freanklin Roosevelt and his advisers had purposely left Pearl Harbor exposed to Japan and blocked reports that would have permitted American forces to anticipate the raid and take advance precautionary measures.
 * Roosevelt wanted America to go into war with Germany and allowing Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor was a good reason to enter it.
 * There were many messages between Yamamoto, the one who planned the hole attack, and his carriers on record which were decoded.
 * The US Military at Tokyo reported Japanese Navy secretly practicing aircraft torpedo attacks against capital ships in Ariake Bay. The bay closely resembles Pearl Harbor.
 * Roosevelt wanted war for America to get out of the Great Depression and to decress the unemployment rate.
 * The "bomb plot" message in a code from Japan's Navy was sent to Japan's Representative in Honolulu which asked for drawings of the exact locations of the US Naval Ships located in Pearl Harbor.
 * Many messages were sent to FDR in Washington to get ships out of Pearl Harbor. It was never sent through.
 * MacArthur, who worked along side with President Roosevelt, sent several messages to Hawaii lying to the location of the Japan carrier fleet which is one of the main reasons Hawaii was caught off guard.
 * FDR mislead the commanders into thinking negotiations with Japan were continuing to prevent them from knowing that Japan made a declaration of war.

__**Primary Sources:**__


 * This picture shows what happend at Pearl Harbor and how bad the bombings really were. It shows the damage, the chaos, and all of the deaths that were caused by this attack. Not preventing this terrible event to happen, Roosevelt could join the war with no problem due to all of the damages and lives lost. Roosevelt knew that if anything would to happen onto American soil that they would be basically forced into war. Knowing this, Roosevelt could have known that the attack on Pearl Harbor was going to occur but decided not to do anything about it so the U.S. could then be in war. Having the attack this bad gave Roosevelt a clear way to declare war with out any suspicion from others.

"//You know I am a juggler, and I never let my right hand know what my left hand does. I'm perfectly willing to mislead and tell untruths.." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 1941//


 * This quote, said by FDR, basically explains that Roosevelt was fine to descieve his cabnet and his military. It leads you to believe that if Roosevelt did really know about the attack, that he wouldn't hesitate to keep the important information a secret. This also shows that he could be perfectly fine with lying to American people about not knowing. Also, by this quote you can tell that Roosevelt most likely didn't care if people knew that he could possibly be misleading others. Knowing valuable information that he didn't address caused much chaos and death. Instead, he did what he wanted just so the U.S. could go to war which cause many lives lost. By this quote, you know that he couldn't be trusted.




 * This picture shows exactly what Pearl Harbor looked like the day of the attack. The exact locations of all the ships are there. A message was sent from the Japanese naval to Japan's general which was in Honolulu. The message was asking him to send back the exact grid locations of the ships in Pearl Harbor at the time. Washington would then not share this information to Hawaii's US naval base. Washington not sending the information that they had on this, shows that Roosevelt did know exactly what was going to happen. He knew that Japan was planning on attacking Pearl Harbor but yet he didn't do anything about it.