The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

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This study will examine the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, focusing specifically on the information which the Japanese received from various United States sources which led them to decide to attack; their interpretation of that information, the alternatives they considered before deciding to attack, and the reason they chose to attack instead of enact any of the other alternatives.
As Robert Smith Thompson writes in A Time for War, we are able to "reconstruct much of the world as the Japanese saw it early in 1941" through communications intercepts and other reliable sources (Thompson, 1991, p. 307). These sources indicate that the United States was increasingly preparing for war with Japan, and Japan feared that the United States would be a powerful adversary if it did in fact enter the fray.

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