Attack on Pearl Harbor Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Pearl Harbor Controversy.

Attack on Pearl Harbor Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Pearl Harbor Controversy.
This section contains 1,846 words
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Pearl Harbor Controversy

Summary: When the attack on Pearl Harbor finally did occur, it provided the means of the government and the motivation of the fooled public to launch the United States into World War II. The Roosevelt administration opportunely overlooked the reminder to tell the American people of the measure played in causing the outcome of December 7th by its maneuver of "economic warfare, its secret diplomacy, its covert military alliances, the submission of demands which Japan found `humiliating,' and its own complete abandonment of neutrality in favor of non-declared war.
Infamous Lies: The Pearl Harbor Controversy

There are facts and there are "facts." But the fact of the matter remains that neither referent will go further than the point to which an individual adheres to one or the other, or perhaps none at all. Just as beauty is seen in the eyes of the beholder, so is fact in the mind of the believer. From thereon, what remains is a matter of one's moral sense and obligation - a choice to either confirm a fact or, otherwise, conform to it.

In the case surrounding the characteristically obscure events of Pearl Harbor, the majority of the United States population chose to conform to the "facts" presented by its renowned government...

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date that will in infamy - the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... the...

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