Pearl Harbor - The United States Should Have Anticipated the Attack :: World War II History

Pearl support - The United States Should Have expect the AttackMany amaze compared the terrorist besiege on the World wad Center on September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They argue that both attacks were just as astonishing, raging and unpredictable. The World Trade Center buildings in New York City salvage lie in ruin, an icy reminder of the terrorist attack. Both the U.S.S. Arizona and the U.S.S universal time remain on the floor of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying grave accent reminding all of the thousands that gave their life on that fateful day, in like manner, they are both reminders of plainly how easily the attack was carried out and of how America, the worlds big brother and perhaps the or so powerful nation in the report of the world, was caught with its guard down. The attacks are also similar in that, generally, those who lived through them divide time time out front the attack and time subsequently. After Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan, and thus Germany and Italy with the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact and latter the Tri branchite Pact, and by and by was slingshot into the Cold War, and after the September 11 attack, concepts that may have been unthinkable before the attack are being considered such as torturing detainees and racial profiling and, arguably, security has been progress fortified in airports and other public places. Both attacks were turning points in American history they had and will have profound effects on life after them. The details of the September 11 attack are still inhumed in distant lands while the on Pearl Harbor happened e reallyplace 60 years ago therefore most of the documents and information concerning the attack have been released. When analyzing the documents and accounts of the Pearl Harbor attack, historians are not able to bar the fact that many warning signs of the approaching attack existed. The neglect of these signs can, in m ost cases, be attributed to some sort of human error in dealing with those signs. Although human error played a large part in the reason that those in power did not take further advantage of those signs, it was not the only reason. Most of the signs were neither tangible nor very specific of the location, date or degree of ferocity at which Nipponese would attack. Another reason is that for years before the attack, a feeling of isolation and thoughts that the United States need not interfere in European matters presided oer the minds of many Americans.