[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the ping, I've just finished reading World War Two BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - Stalin, The Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees.

I can highly recommend the book.

...The Americans did not seem to believe that they would be the victims of a Japanese attack...

~snip

It was a massive misjudgement. Far from seeking to disengage with the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Americans were driven on by a sense of righteous indignation to pursue vengeance against Japan. 'Remember Pearl Harbor!' became the rallying cry of American forces in the war that followed...

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: Remember Pearl Harbor

FDR immediately declared a war on "sneak attackers" and cautioned Americans that it was not a war against the peaceful Imperial Japanese government . . . .