Pearl Harbor
...ates knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed, but nobody in Hawaii knew about the planned attack. Pearl Harbor at the time before the bombing was very relaxed. Many people in Pearl Harbor had no clue about the Japanese plotting to bomb it because nobody was informed about it. Some major officials on the island knew about the plot of Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor, but did not think that Japan was capable of a plan like this, so they decide not to spread the word because they felt no major threat. The Japanese were very smart people and were very good spies. The United States knew that Hawaii was full of Japanese spies but because the United States Constitution guaranteed rights, we could do basically nothing about it. Japanese spies traveled all around Pearl Harbor taking notes about everything at Pearl Harbor. Because of spies the Japanese had a very good idea of what Pearl Harbor was like and what would be the best way to go for an attack. The Japanese spies helped out a lot in telling the Japanese counsel were the United States ships were at. The counsel did not think that this was very accurate information. After the Japanese counsel decided this, Japan’s naval intelligence asked Japan’s consul general in Honolulu for a grid of the exact location of American warships and aircraft carriers. The Japanese sent this message in code but in about an hour the American decoded the message. The officers who read the message saw this as a dead give away that Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed. The officers allowed Japan’s Honolulu general to send the message. The Japanese were also very intelligent in their many different ways of coding messages and making it so that only the other Japanese intelligence could decipher it. The Japanese had over ten codes at one time during World War 2. In the battle of Pearl Harbor they only used three codes. Luckily the American intelligence was able to decipher the most important of these codes. Many people believe that Roosevelt was to blame for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They believed this because Roosevelt had received warnings that Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed. Roosevelt never acted on them. He told his secretary of war that he knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed. Some people believe that Roosevelt was to blame because of the numerous numbers of decoded messages that he received. Pearl harbor was an incident that ...