Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 the greatest disaster in United States history occurred. Truly this was and is, "'A date which will live in infamy.'" not for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, rather for the deception and the misguidance used by the Government and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Speculation has it that 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. The bombing of Pearl Harbor could have been stopped if President Franklin D. Roosevelt revealed the information he knew.
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......
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