Pearl Harbor attack

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The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was the incident which brought the United States into World War II.

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Despite the official story that the attack came as a complete surprise, there appears to be a strong historical case that top US officials:

knew of the impending attack
had antagonized the Japanese with the idea of encouraging them to attack
ordered the fleet at Pearl Harbor into a configuration which would be the most heavily damaged by an air attack
kept officers at Pearl Harbor in the dark about the latest intelligence, and generally out of the loop

If true, the attack was an engineered provocation sought deliberately by the highest levels of the US government in order to inflame public sentiment and gain the necessary political support for entering the war.

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The 2001-09-11 attacks have been compared to the Pearl Harbor attack.
The Project for the New American Century implicitly called for a "new Pearl Harbor" to help crystallize American sentiment in directions considered appropriate by the authors