The U.S Entering World War ll"A date that will live in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile radars. They immediately called this in to their commanding officer but he told them to ignore it because the base was expecting a squadron of friendly …showed first 75 words of 1177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1177 total…could get one of the axis powers to attack Americans then he could get the U.S. in the war. Roosevelt and his cabinet carefully covered their tracks very carefully so as not to leave any signs that there was foul play. Roosevelt knew beforehand that Japan was going to attack, but he didn't take any drastic peace-keeping actions to prevent the attack, because he wanted a justifiable reason to enter the second World War.