Amazingly even after the attack on Pearl Harbor people failed to realize that we had been brought into a WORLD WAR.
"Amazing" events require at least a cite, one would think. Got one?
When you consider that Italy and Germany declared war on the US on
December 11, 1941, if anyone was unaware of the global nature of the war, they weren't unaware for more than a few days.
Here you go - sound very close to some in today's anti-war movements. Same conspiracy ideas even.
I should have been a bit more specific and indicated that only some - or a few people had their heads in the sand, but that is the same as today as well.
This was, by the way, before Germany declared war, but after the attacks:
Elected with a small plurality, Jeannette Rankin arrived in Washington in January as one of six women in the House, two in the Senate. When, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress voted to declare war against Japan, Jeannette Rankin once again voted "no" to war. She also, once again, violated long tradition and spoke before her roll call vote, this time saying "As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else" as she voted alone against the war resolution. She was denounced by the press and her colleagues, and barely escaped an angry mob. She believed that Roosevelt had deliberately provoked the attack on Pearl Harbor. See:
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_jeannette_rankin.htm
DKK