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

Pearl keep back - The United States Should Have Anticipated the AttackMany have compared the terrorist attack on the World shift place on September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They argue that both attacks were just as astonishing, unwarranted and unpredictable. The World Trade Center buildings in New York City still lie in ruin, an icy reminder of the terrorist attack. Both the U.S.S. Arizona and the U.S.S Utah remain on the tarradiddle of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying tomb reminding all of the thousands that gave their life on that fateful day, also, they are both reminders of seemingly how easily the attack was carried out and of how America, the worlds coarse brother and perhaps the most powerful nation in the history of the world, was caught with its guard down. The attacks are also similar in that, generally, those who lived through them divide magazine time before the attack and time after. After Pearl Harbor, the United States decl ared war on Japan, and thus Germany and Italy with the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact and latter the tripartite Pact, and after 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 further fortified in airports and other public places. Both attacks were turning points in American history they had and go forth have profound effects on life after them. The details of the September 11 attack are still buried in nonadjacent lands while the on Pearl Harbor happened everyplace 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 non able to avoid the fact that many warning signs of the approaching attack existed. The neglect of these signs can, in most cases, be attributed to some crystallize 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 Japanese 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 over the minds of many Americans.