20th Century Conspiracies (4) : The War against Japan in WWII

Long time no see! Sorry about the last week. I mean, my dad accidently screwed up my computer, so I needed to reformet the whole disk.... Anyways, today, I will talk about Pearl Harbour!
Yes, today is about the Pearl Harbour conspiracy.

What is this?
On the evening of December 6, 1941. The U.S. president F.D.Roosevelt recieved a message intercepted by the U.S. Navy sent from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy in Washington. The message was obvious since Japan, under the heavy pressure of the US oil sanction, was preparing to terminate the relation with the US. Roosevelt read the message and said, "This means war." Then, he did a very strange thing for a president in his situation.

HE DID NOTHING!

At the dawn the next morning, a Japanese squardron bombed Pearl Harbor and the surprise sttack was just that, a complete surprise. At least, 4,575 American serviceman died.

After that?
There were eight ivestigatios of Pearl Harbor altogether. The most interesting one was a joint-House-Senate probe that reiterated the Roberts Commission findings. At those hearings, General George C. Marshall and Admirals Harold R.Stark testified taht they could not remember where they were night the war declaration came in. But, a close friend of Frank Knox, the secretary of the Navy, later revealed that Know, Stark, and Marshall spent most of that night in the White House with Roosevelt awating the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the chance for American to join World War II.

Why?
Historians had concluded long before Pearl Harbor that war against the Axis power aws a necessity. However, the American public disagreed. A strike against American territory would surely bring the public around.


Credit:Vakin,Jonathan. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. 1st. Toronto,Ontarion: A Citadel Press Book, 1995.


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