FDR and Pearl Harbor: The FOIA Revelations (http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id1488/pg1/)

1		presents the argument that President Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened. What evidence does Stinnett provide to support his claim? Do you find his argument convincing? Why or why not?

Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction (http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2001/06-04-2001/vo17no12_facts.htm)

2		concurs with Stinnett’s argument that FDR knew about the attack before December 7th. Does this author provide any additional evidence? Does his article make the claim that Roosevelt had previous knowledge of the attack any more or less believable? Why? How do the historians in Where Historians Disagree who believe Roosevelt did not know about the attack respond to these claims?

Read The Attack on Pearl Harbor (http://f.about.com/z/js/spr02.htm).

3		What other conspiracies about Pearl Harbor does this essay present? The author argues that no “smoking gun” has appeared that indicates that Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened? Do you agree? Why or why not?
4		Why should 21st-century Americans care whether President Roosevelt did or did not know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Other sites with primary and secondary information about Pearl Harbor include:

5		Pearl Harbor: Remembered (http://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html) – Details on the attack and links to other Pearl Harbor sites. The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/) – The complete report of the Congressional investigation into the attack. Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm) – Naval Historical Center’s site on the attack.