Robert M Barnum

Roosevelt's Path to Pearl Harbor Robert M Barnum

This is an analysis of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies and actions from 1934 to 1941, leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the information he was aware of before the attack. The analysis shows that President Roosevelt strove to maintain peace with Japan and to keep the peace in the Pacific. Roosevelt's main goal was to maintain peace in the Pacific so America could concentrate on the conflict raging in the Atlantic. Roosevelt's actions and policies toward Japan were to stem Japan's aggression in the Pacific through economic sanctions, not to antagonize Japan into war with America. Through the last months of 1941, as Japan and America negotiated to maintain peace Roosevelt demonstrated willingness and diligence to maintain that peace in the Pacific