The big moment
for millions of Americans their day changed in December 7 1941 their lives would change as the news went on with the bombing of pearl harbor that became a national disaster. People believed the reports out of the radios they thought how could this happen who was their to blame.
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The Japanese attack on pearl harbor and the Philippines propelled the united sates into war. once the Japanese troops began moving into southern Indochina a new situation was created. using maneuver to portray Roosevelt as a man bent on luring japan into war. the idea that the Japaneses government was a helpless victim blindly stumbling into a trap.
just alone with the attack on the philippics would result in the declaration of war. according to harry Hopkins the Japanese would try to avoid a conflict with the united states. they would move against wither the Philippines or Hawaii but would push more deeply into china or seize Thailand, french, Indochina, and possibly the Malay starts. Roosevelt thought that japan would strike at the soviet union at an opportune moment.