"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 B-17's to be coming from the mainland. Thirty
             minutes later the first bomb fell and almost killed a courier boy who
             was trying to deliver a message to Pearl Harbor Naval Base that the
             Japanese Imperial Navy was going to attack them. The Japanese bombers
             caught the base by surprise due to the Americans' tradition of not
             working on Sunday's. As the bombs fell, so did all the chances of the
             United States not joining the Allies in the second world war that was
             raging in Europe and the western Pacific. Up to that point the U.S.
             had just been supporting the Allies but they weren't technically at
             All throughout the first two years of the war, President
             Roosevelt focused on making life difficult for the Japanese. One way
             he did this was by creating various policies that would deter the Axis
             powers from being able to maintain the needs necessary to wage war on
             the Allies. One of these policies was the American financial and
             economic embargo, which supported China in its fight against Japan. It
             also, somewhat, forced neutral countries to side with the U.S. because
             it threatened that if any country would aid one of the Axis countries
             then that country would no longer be given aid packages from the
             United States. A second policy imposed by Roosevelt was the "moral
             embargo" of July 1938. This banned neutral countries from exporting
             planes and equipment to countries who engaged in the bombing of
             civilians. This made the U.S. look like the good guys because they
             were prote...