Could Pearl Harbor Been Prevented?
Could Pearl Harbor been prevented?
Some people believe that the attack on Pearl Harbor could have been prevented from happening. Others believe that the attack was a surprise and that we didn’t see it coming. Actually Pearl Harbor could have been prevented in many ways and we did see it coming we just weren’t prepared. If we would have had better communication, used our resources, and believed that the Japanese would attack us we might have been able to fight back. If we would have had better communication it could have been one way that would had prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor. One example is that the United States placed an embargo act on all oil and iron ore trade with Japan (http://www.mobile-qr-codes.org/pearl-harbor-facts.html ). Also we requested that Japan move its troops out of China. All of this created problems between us and Japan. The Japanese Prime Minister, Fumimaro Konoye, decided to arrange a meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Japanese Prime Minister wanted to have this meeting in Hawaii but the President changed the location to Alaska. The meeting kept being put off and never actually got to happened. A couple months later the Prime Minister was replaced. If the President would have personally meet the Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye to settle out all issues with the Japanese they might have not attacked us. Another example is, Ricardo Rivera Schreiber, the Peruvian ambassador of Japan, called Ambassador Joseph Grew, the American Ambassador of Tokyo, telling him that he had information that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. Grew thanked Schreiber and prepared a cable to be dispatched to the State of Department but it was never actually sent ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4206060). Grew and Schreiber were both repatriated and sent back to the United States on a ship where Schreiber confronted Grew and asked him why he dind’t warn Washington about the information that
Some people believe that the attack on Pearl Harbor could have been prevented from happening. Others believe that the attack was a surprise and that we didn’t see it coming. Actually Pearl Harbor could have been prevented in many ways and we did see it coming we just weren’t prepared. If we would have had better communication, used our resources, and believed that the Japanese would attack us we might have been able to fight back. If we would have had better communication it could have been one way that would had prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor. One example is that the United States placed an embargo act on all oil and iron ore trade with Japan (http://www.mobile-qr-codes.org/pearl-harbor-facts.html ). Also we requested that Japan move its troops out of China. All of this created problems between us and Japan. The Japanese Prime Minister, Fumimaro Konoye, decided to arrange a meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Japanese Prime Minister wanted to have this meeting in Hawaii but the President changed the location to Alaska. The meeting kept being put off and never actually got to happened. A couple months later the Prime Minister was replaced. If the President would have personally meet the Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye to settle out all issues with the Japanese they might have not attacked us. Another example is, Ricardo Rivera Schreiber, the Peruvian ambassador of Japan, called Ambassador Joseph Grew, the American Ambassador of Tokyo, telling him that he had information that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. Grew thanked Schreiber and prepared a cable to be dispatched to the State of Department but it was never actually sent ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4206060). Grew and Schreiber were both repatriated and sent back to the United States on a ship where Schreiber confronted Grew and asked him why he dind’t warn Washington about the information that