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Pearl Harbor

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by Steven M. Gillon


  8 Press Release, December 8, 1941, Official File, World War II, OF4675, Box 1, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

  9 Davis, FDR: The War President, 349–350.

  10 Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny (New York: Little, Brown, 1990), 408.

  11 Emily S. Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 174–176.

  12 “Proclamation 8089—National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2006,” Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, December 11, 2006, 2119–2120.

  INDEX

  Acheson, Dean

  Air attack, and White House security

  Alarm system, and White House security

  Alien Registration Act

  Alien residents

  Allies of World War II,. See also individual countries

  America First Committee

  Army (U.S.)

  expansion of

  Associated Press

  Atlanta Journal

  Atlantic Charter

  Austin, Warren R.

  Austria

  Backdoor theory. See also Conspiracy theories

  Barkley, Alben

  Battle slogans

  Battleship Row

  Beardall, John

  Belgium

  Bellows airfield

  Biddle, Francis

  and cabinet war briefing

  and Japanese Americans

  Blackout, and White House security

  Bland, W. H. P.

  Blitzkrieg strategy

  Bloch, Claude

  Bloom, Sol

  Bomb barrier, and White House security

  Bomb shelter, and White House security

  Bomb threats, and White House security

  Bombs, armor piercing

  Borah, William

  Bratton, Rufus

  British Malaya

  Bulletproof glass, and White House Security

  Bullitt, William

  Bureau of Engraving and Printing

  Bush, George W.

  California

  Capone, Al

  Casualties, of Pearl Harbor attack

  and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  Censorship

  Central America

  China

  occupation of

  Churchill, Winston

  and declaration of war against Germany

  and declaration of war against Japan

  and FDR, letters between

  and FDR, meetings between

  and FDR, phone calls between

  and FDR’s war address

  and Hopkins

  and Japan

  radio messages of

  and U.S. intervention

  and war resolution (U.S.), passage of

  Civil liberties violations

  Clark Field

  Cleveland, Grover

  Clinton, Bill

  Coca-Cola

  Cocaine

  Cocktail hour, in Oval Study

  Code machines (Japanese), destruction of

  Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies

  Communications system

  and White House security

  Communism

  Congress (U.S.)

  FDR’s address to

  and war resolution, passage of

  Congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  Connally, Tom

  Conspiracy theories

  Constitution

  Cooper, Jere

  Counterattack

  Cox, James

  Creel, George

  Custodial Detention Lists

  Czechoslovakia

  Daly, John

  Damage reports

  and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  and incomplete information

  and misinformation and rumors

  Deception

  Declaration of war

  against Germany

  against Japan

  against U.S.

  and World War I,

  Democratic Convention (1924), FDR’s speech at

  Democratic Convention (1928), FDR’s speech at

  Denmark

  Destroyers-for-bases deal

  DeWitt, John

  Dingell, John

  Dirksen, Everett

  Dixon, Frank M.

  Documents, of presidential administrations

  Domestic terrorism

  Donovan, William “Wild Bill,”

  Earle, Mrs. John

  Early, Steve

  and cabinet war briefing

  and damage reports

  and damage reports, and misinformation and rumors

  and press, censorship of

  and reports of Pearl Harbor, attack on

  and White House security

  East Coast, and Japanese invasion, fear of

  Eaton, Charles

  Economic expansion (U.S.)

  Election (1940)

  Elizalde, Joaquim

  Ellis Island

  Embargo

  Emergency Proclamation 2525

  Ethiopia

  Ewa airfield

  Executive Order 9066

  Export license

  Fahy, Charles

  Far East

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  FDR Library

  Federal Bureau of Investigation. See FBI

  Fire prevention, and White House security

  Fireside chats. See also Radio messages

  First ladies, role of

  Fish, Hamilton

  Ford Island

  Foreign Service officers

  Formosa

  Fourteen-part Japanese message

  and fourteenth-part

  France

  defeat of

  Franco, Francisco

  Freud, Sigmund

  Fuchida, Mitsuo

  and surprise, element of

  and tactical miscue

  Gas masks, and White House security

  Gaston, Herbert E.

  Genda, Minoru (aka Mad Genda)

  military strategy of

  and surprise, element of

  German Americans

  Germany

  declaration of war against

  and declaration of war against U.S.

  and nonaggression pact

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on

  as primary threat

  Gerow, Leonard

  Gill, Jesse

  Glass, Carter

  Government officials

  Grayson, Cary

  Great Britain

  and declaration of war against Japan

  and destroyers-for-bases deal

  and Panama Canal

  U.S. aid to

  Great Depression

  Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

  Green, William

  Greene, Jerry

  Grew, Joseph

  Griffith Stadium

  Grossan, Murray

  Guam

  Hachimaki

  Hackmeister, Louise “Hackie,”

  Hagel, Charles

  Hagy, Robert

  Halifax, Lord

  Hamlin, Mrs. Charles

  Harriman, Averell

  Hart, Moss

  Hawaii

  Japanese Americans in

  and Japanese invasion, fear of

  public anxiety in

  Herald American

  Hickam Field

  Hill, Lister

  Hirohito (emperor of Japan)

  FDR’s appeal to

  and oil embargo

  and peace talks

  and war order

  Hitler, Adolf

  and declaration of war against U.S.

  and Great Britain

  and Latin America

  military strategy of

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on

  and power consolidation

  as primary threat

  and public opinion (U.S.)
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br />   and Russia

  and Spain

  and territorial expansion

  and U.S.

  Hoffman, Clare

  Hong Kong

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hopkins, Harry

  and Churchill

  and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  and damage reports

  and FDR’s radio messages

  as FDR’s special assistant

  and FDR’s war address

  and fourteen-part Japanese message

  as friend of FDR

  illness of

  and Japan’s target, speculation about

  and Murrow

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on, naval officials’ announcement of

  as permanent White House guest

  resentment toward

  as secretary of commerce

  House Concurrent Resolution 61

  Houston, Sam

  Howe, Louis

  Hull, Cordell

  and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  and damage report

  and FDR’s radio messages

  and FDR’s war address

  and hard line proposal

  and Japan’s target, speculation about

  and Nomura

  and peace talks

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on, naval officials’ announcement of

  and White House security

  Ickes, Harold

  Immigration, Japanese

  Income tax

  Indochina

  Information, control of

  International News Service

  Internationalism

  Iron exports

  Isolationism

  Isolationists

  and America First Committee

  Italian Americans

  Italy

  and declaration of war against U.S.

  Japan

  and attack order

  and Churchill

  and compromise, with U.S.

  declaration of war against

  and first Japanese attack wave

  fourteen-part message from

  Hull’s hard line proposal to

  invasion by, fear of

  and oil embargo

  and oil embargo negotiations

  and oil fields, seizure of

  and oil imports, dependence on

  and peace talks

  and second Japanese attack wave

  as secondary threat

  target of, speculation about

  and territorial aggression

  Japanese ambassadors

  Japanese Americans

  and civil liberties violations

  detainment of

  economic warfare against businesses of

  in Hawaii

  internment of

  and martial law

  and racial prejudice

  and sabotage, fear of

  on West Coast

  Japanese correspondents

  Japanese immigration

  Jefferson, Capp

  Jews, persecution of

  Johnson, Hiram

  Johnson, Keen

  Josephson, Jordan S.

  Justice Department

  Aliens Division

  and Japanese Americans

  Kagoshima Bay

  Kaneohe airfield

  Kansas City Times

  Kaufman, George S.

  Keen, William

  Kelly, Ed

  Kennedy, John F.

  Khota Baru

  Kibei

  Kimmel, Husband

  Kluckhohn, Frank

  Knox, Frank

  and cabinet war briefing

  and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  and damage report

  and fourteen-part Japanese message

  and Japan’s target, speculation about

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on, naval officials’ announcement of

  Konoye, Fumimaro

  Kota Bharu

  Krock, Arthur

  Kurusu, Saburo

  and peace talks

  LaGuardia, Fiorello

  Landon, Alf

  Latin America

  Leadership

  League of Nations

  LeHand, Marguerite “Missy,”

  Lend Lease proposal

  Lend-Lease Program

  Lewis, John L.

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lindbergh, Charles

  Lindley, Ernest

  Lofgren, Robert

  Los Angeles Times

  Lovett, Robert Williamson

  Luxembourg

  MacArthur, Douglas

  and military failure

  MacLeish, Archibald

  Mahan, Alfred T.

  Mail and package room, and White House security

  Manchuria

  Manila. See also Philippines

  Marshall, George

  as brigadier general

  as chief of staff

  and damage reports

  and FDR’s war address

  and military strategy

  and Philippines

  and warning message

  Marshall, John

  Martial law

  Martin, Joseph

  McCormack, John

  McIntire, Ross T.

  McIntyre, Marvin

  McNary, Charles

  Mein Kampf (Hitler)

  Mercer, Lucy

  Midway Islands

  Military, failure of

  Military intelligence

  and misinformation and rumors

  Military recruitment

  Military strategy

  of Hitler

  Japanese

  U.S.

  Misinformation and rumors

  and damage reports

  and press

  Moley, Raymond

  Monroe Doctrine

  Morgenthau, Henry

  and Japanese Americans

  and oil embargo

  and White House security

  Movie theaters

  Munson, Curtis B.

  Murray, Philip

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Mussolini, Benito

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on

  and U.S.

  Nagumo (admiral)

  Nanking, China

  National unity

  Navy (U.S.)

  expansion of

  inferiority of

  Nazis

  and Jews, persecution of

  Nesbitt, Henrietta

  Netherlands

  Neutrality Act

  Neutrality legislation

  New Deal

  and Connally

  and Knox

  and Wilkie

  New York Times

  News, control of

  News reports. See also Newspapers; Press; Radio messages

  Newspapers

  and self-censorship

  See also News reports

  Nisei

  Nomura, Kichisaburo

  Nonaggression pact

  Norris, George

  Norway

  Nye, Gerald P.

  Oakland Tribune

  Office of Naval Intelligence

  Oil embargo

  and export license

  limited

  negotiations

  Oil fields, seizure of

  Oil imports

  Operation Barbarossa

  Organized labor

  Oval Study

  Pacific Fleet, relocation of

  Panama Canal

  Partisan differences

  Peace talks

  Pearl Harbor

  as citadel

  oil-storage facilities at

  shipyards at

  Pearl Harbor, attack on

  and America First Committee

  Pearl Harbor, attack on (continued)

  blame for

  blame for, and failure of military

  blame for, and FDR

  casualties of

  and C
hurchill

  and congressional investigation

  and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to

  and conspiracy theories

  and counterattack

  damage to(see also Damage reports)

  and fact-finding commission

  and FDR’s cabinet war briefing

  first public response to

  and Germany

  and Hitler

  and Marshall’s warning message

  and military, failure of

  and misinformation and rumors

  and Mussolini

  and national unity, in U.S.

  naval officials’ announcement of

  news reports of(see also Damage reports; individual news sources)

  as opportunity to enter war

  and political divisions, dissolution of

  and public anxiety

  restoration and repair of

  and Roosevelt (Eleanor)

  and September 11 attack

  as strategic blunder

  Perkins, Frances

  Philadelphia Record

  Philippines

  and MacArthur

  and surprise, element of

  Physician. See White House physician

  Poindexter, Joseph B.

  Poland

  Police officers. See also Secret Service

  Political divisions

  Power, centralization of

  Power plant, and White House security

  Presidency, changes to institution of

  Presidential election (1940)

  Presidential protection

  and alien residents

  See also White House security

  Press

  censorship of

  and FDR’s war address

  and misinformation and rumors

  and national unity

  and self-censorship

  and September 11 attack

  See also News reports

  Press secretary

  Prettyman, Arthur

  Public anxiety

  Public morale

  Public opinion

  and Hitler

  and Japan as little threat

  Racial prejudice

  and Japanese Americans

  Radio message(s)

  of Churchill

  of FDR

  first war

  of Roosevelt (Eleanor)

  See also News reports

  Rainbow Five

  Rankin, Jeanette

  Rayburn, Sam

  and FDR’s war address

  Reilly, Mike

  and security changes

  Rhineland

  Roberts, Owen

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  childhood of

  during early years–marriage and family

  and FDR, public partnership between

  and FDR’s extramarital affair

  and FDR’s health issues

  and FDR’s war address

  and Murrow

  and Pearl Harbor, attack on

  radio messages of

  role of

  temperament of

 

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