Pearl Harbor

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews and discusses the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. According to the paper, the initial reaction by President Roosevelt and his cabinet was to develop a plausible association for blame and, in so doing, targeted the top two commanders in Hawaii, Admiral H.E. Kimmel and Lt. General W.C. Short. This paper shows that the ultimate responsibility for the attack lies squarely in the hands of these two men, as they had the most direct association with the events that immediately led up to the attack.

From the Paper:

"Another revisionist stance on the conflict concludes that Roosevelt was in collusion with Churchill and even possibly Stalin, with regard to military intelligence about Japan's intentions to strike Hawaii and that intelligence was deliberately withheld, because of some collective idea about the manner in which it would help the popular cause of the US entering the war. The revisionist interpretation is a long held set of assertions of conspiracy and collusion, and has created an academic body of knowledge that stretches across the decades and feeds even more conjecture."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ben-Zvi, Abraham. Prelude to Pearl Harbor: A Study of American ImagesToward Japan, 1940-41. New York: Vintage Press, 1979.
• Brcak, Nancy, and John R. Pavia. "Racism in Japanese and U.S. Wartime Propaganda." The Historian 56.4 (1994): 671.
• Conroy, Hilary, and Harry Wray, eds. Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
• Maga, Timothy P. "Ronald Reagan and Redress for Japanese-American Internment, 1983-88." Presidential Studies Quarterly 28.3 (1998): 606.
• Morgenstern, George. Pearl Harbor The Story of the Secret War. New York: Devin-Adair, 1947.

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