Did President Franklin Roosevelt know Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked? On December 7, 1941 the United States of America was attacked at the naval base in Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. It was a day considered by President Roosevelt to live in
infamy. Pearl Harbor was the home to a large part of the United States aircraft carrier fleet. It was definitely an intriguing attack site for Japan to hit. The attack was an obvious surprise
to everyone living in the area of Pearl Harbor and the United States. Journalist Clarke Beach of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin said this 3 months before the attack, 'A Japanese attack on Hawaii is regarded as the most unlikely thing in the world, with one chance in a million of being successful' (Lord 33) Beach and everyone else in the country would have no idea that they would lose thousands of lives in what was an incident that was thought to never happen.
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