But there has always been a saying that the attack on Pearl Harbor is a bitter plan of the United States, and the United States deliberately let Japan attack Pearl Harbor. So, does this make sense?
Looking back at history, let us know the truth more clearly!
194 1 year can be said to be quite restless. Europe is a mess. After the Germans broke through France without bloodshed and entered Paris, the soldiers directly launched Barbarossa's plan to attack the Soviet Union eastward. Although the Soviet Union gradually resisted after suffering huge losses in the initial stage, the situation was still not optimistic.
On the other hand, although Japan has entered a stalemate in Asia, there is still no hope for the national army to counterattack. Therefore, from the actual situation at that time, the balance of power in the world has been concentrated on the United States, which has not yet entered the war. Although the American army at that time was not as famous as it was later, the industrial strength of the United States was recognized by the world.
After all, since 1894, the total industrial output value of the United States has always been the highest in the world. 1939, the total industrial output value of the United States accounted for 40% of the world, and it was even less satisfactory in all major industrial indicators. The output of crude steel is higher than that of the Soviet Union and Germany combined, and the output of crude oil is close to half of that of the world. If the industrial strength of the United States at that time is completely transformed into military production capacity, it is absolutely unprecedented, so to speak.
Facts have proved that the United States later built a warship like Jiaozi, and the record of 654.38+09.7 billion bullets a year is still difficult to break.
At that time, it seemed that if the United States joined the world war, it might directly change the strength comparison between the two sides of the alliance, and even the outcome of the war.
At this time, President Roosevelt of the United States wanted to join international affairs very much, because Roosevelt knew that if Germany and Japan really became things of Europe and Asia, then the United States would be isolated, either cooperating with Germany and Japan or watching people's faces every day, so Roosevelt planned to take action before they really became a climate, but there was one problem, some people didn't want to, and they were the American people.
Before talking about why the Pearl Harbor incident is suspected to be a bitter-hearted one, we must first understand an important issue-the isolationism of the American people at that time, that is, getting rich silently. If we don't understand this problem, we can't know why Pearl Harbor was a bitter fruit.
First of all, since the founding of the United States, there has been a tradition of so-called isolationism. The official explanation is that America, as an independent and complete continent, is not allowed to interfere in America and will not interfere in European affairs. To put it bluntly, it is to stay out of it.
Especially after World War I, US Senator Lald Nye organized a well-known arms dealer investigation meeting and conducted 1934 to 1936 investigations. The survey results show that the reason why the United States participated in World War I was that arms dealers and politicians colluded with each other and opened up the European arms market at the expense of American soldiers' lives, which caused an uproar in the United States at that time and directly led to unprecedented isolationism in the United States.
1937, the United States conducted a public opinion survey. Polls show that 70% of Americans believe that America's participation in World War I is an absolute tragic mistake. Although today's polls may not be reliable, when Roosevelt called for sanctions against Germany and Japan on 10, the beloved president first realized what it was like to be offended by public anger. He always supported his lawmakers and people and cursed it as an ugly thing.
What made the Roosevelt administration feel helpless most was that 1937, 1937 February, the American warship "Panay" was deliberately sunk by Japan on the Yangtze River, killing two sailors and one expatriate. This is an excellent opportunity to declare war on Japan. According to the temper of the United States in World War I, at this time, Roosevelt really wanted to intervene to control Japan's aggression against China, on the one hand, to contain Japan's expansion, on the other hand.
However, at this time, the US Congress was subject to Roosevelt everywhere. In order to restrict Roosevelt's right to participate in the war, Lewis Ludlow of the House of Representatives directly proposed that if the president declares war on any country, he must obtain a national vote.
On this day, the polls at that time showed that 68% to 73% people agreed. Roosevelt not only lamented the people as frightened birds, but also regarded me as a wolf, a tiger and a leopard. So what Roosevelt needs most at this time is a reasonable reason to participate in the world war, especially after Germany attacked Poland in 1939, France quickly fell and Roosevelt was scolded urgently! Just hold a meeting in Congress and call me a pacifist, but if we continue this peace, it is estimated that there will be no peace in the future.
Then, under great pressure, Roosevelt passed his revised neutrality bill. The core of this bill is that the United States sells weapons only to allies such as Britain, France and the Soviet Union, not to axis countries, not to sell them with loans, to buy them now and to transport them now, so as to avoid Americans being beaten in transit. As a result, Roosevelt asked Churchill to transport the plane to Canada by cavalry. Churchill cried at that time, so it seems that the United States really needs a reason to join World War II, and it is this reason.
At that time, Japan's oil reserves and strategic resources reserves fell sharply because of being dragged into the battlefield by China. At that time, there were two schools in Japan, namely, the northward movement and the southward movement. After the signing of the non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany and the Battle of Nomenkan, Japan's northward advance was the absolute main force, and its southward advance was to expand to India, zhina, the Philippines and other countries, which was bound to be directly related to the interests of the United States.
1937 After the Japanese invasion of China broke out, the United States was Japan's largest source of oil and materials. It can be said that Japan could not continue the war without the United States at that time, but the United States was not a charity and Japan needed money to obtain weapons from the United States. Therefore, as the war progressed, Japan's foreign exchange reserves became less and less. 1939, Japan's foreign exchange reserves were only 3,800. It's just a little more than the Soviet Union, so it's basically impossible to continue buying American goods. As a result, Japan's way of thinking has completely begun to deviate from the normal line. Since I can't afford it, I can always grab it, right? After all, I was so powerful that Japan planned to attack the southern line and seize strategic resources. However, it is destined to meet the United States.
As a result, Japan began to ponder that Japan's industrial strength was far from that of the United States, but the paper strength of the Pacific fleet in the United States at that time was not as good as that of Japan, so Japan faced the same problems as the Russo-Japanese War. How can we force a powerful opponent to sign a contract within a certain period of time? The answer is similar, that is, to temporarily destroy all its military forces, that is, to put it bluntly, to destroy the US Pacific Fleet, to force the United States to form an alliance at the gates by threatening the west coast of the United States, and to recognize Japan's so-called Greater East Asia * * * glory circle, which was also the direct cause of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor later.
From here, we can see that Japan needs to attack Pearl Harbor and the United States needs to be attacked. Therefore, it is possible for the United States to let Japan attack Pearl Harbor, but the question is, are Americans completely unaware that Japan is about to attack Pearl Harbor? Actually, it's not.
Because before Pearl Harbor, China's intelligence personnel actually had clues. At that time, Chi Buzhou, the decipherer of China Unification Daily, had already concluded that Japan was about to attack Pearl Harbor by deciphering the message of the Japanese ambassador to the United States, and this information was also uploaded to the United States.
Coincidentally, at that time, the National Army Command also monitored that Japan had intensive outward signal sources in the Pacific Ocean. It seems that Japan will conduct a large-scale military operation in the Pacific Ocean. Through detection and analysis, it was determined that Japan was about to attack Pearl Harbor, and this information was also uploaded to the United States.
However, at that time, the United States thought that the professional ability of China intelligence personnel was unreliable, so it didn't believe these two important pieces of information, so it missed them.
However, if Americans don't believe the information provided by China, then Americans themselves have a lot of information. 194 1, the American listening agency Magic has been able to accurately decipher the confidential telegram sent by the Japanese Embassy. Through their analysis, it is an important report that Japan is about to launch a large-scale military operation in the Pacific, but this intelligence report has not attracted any attention within the US military.
194 1 year, the U.S ambassador to Peru submitted a document to U.S secretary of state hull. Obviously, if Japan's diplomatic relations with the United States break down, Japan will send naval forces to the police station to attack Pearl Harbor. The relationship between Peru and Japan is extraordinary. Peru is one of the largest sources of overseas Chinese in Japan, so this information is not trivial, but it still sinks into the sea.
I wonder if Roosevelt heard it. There is no news anyway. Even weirder is February 7th 194 165438+7:00, which is the last chance for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. American radar soldiers have found Japanese planes on the screen, but such an important situation has not been reported by American radar intelligence personnel at all. As a result, the United States directly missed the last defense opportunity. It is because of these eccentricities. Therefore, there has always been a saying that the attack on Pearl Harbor is simply a bitter plan directed and executed by Americans, and the person who holds this statement the most is the Japanese.
For example, Mr. Kiyoshi Inoue, a famous Japanese historian, thinks that the attack on Pearl Harbor is the bitter plan of the President of the United States. His reason is that Colonel Lan Neft, then the Dutch military attache in Washington, recalled that five days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he heard a sergeant pointing to the map of the Pacific Ocean and saying that the Japanese mobile forces were moving eastward here, and the location on the map was near Pearl Harbor. In 198 1, Shin Yihong, who undertook the main technical task, also said that Roosevelt had mastered the information at least 1 1 hour before our action, and we were cheated, but the question is, can we conclude that Pearl Harbor is an American's bitter plan?
The first is the information we mentioned above. We know that every country has many sources of information, and Roosevelt is exposed to all kinds of information every day. At that time, the mainstream of American intelligence showed that Japan was about to attack the Dutch East India and Southeast Asia, showing that there was very little information about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Just like Stalin, before the German launched the Barbarossa Plan, he also believed that war would be a truth for several years, so ignoring the information could not be used as evidence.
Second, it was really too expensive for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, because at that time, Pearl Harbor concentrated almost all the forces of the US Navy, with nine strategic ships and three aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor. In less than two hours, eight battleships, three aircraft carriers, four other ships and 188 aircraft were all destroyed, and more than 3,000 people were killed. Such a painful price was actually unbearable for the United States at that time.
The third point of view is that the effect can be achieved without sacrificing Pearl Harbor at all, because at that time, the Japanese side attacked six places, including the Philippines and Vietnam, which all had direct interests with the United States, especially the Philippines and the United States directly stationed troops. Even without Pearl Harbor, the United States can get enough reasons to go to war with Japan, and there is no need to deliberately come up with a bitter plan at Pearl Harbor.
But here I have to mention the American isolationism mentioned above, because the isolationism in the United States is too serious. Although the "Panay" incident happened before, the main view of the American people and members of Congress is still not to participate in the European war. Therefore, it is still very difficult for the United States to directly go to war with Japan at this time. If there were no Pearl Harbor incident, the United States would probably still face a diehard opponent like Japan under the strong isolationist sentiment at home.
At least from the Vietnam War, it can be seen that the American people are completely uninterested in being beaten outside the United States. But the attack on Pearl Harbor can undoubtedly arouse the patriotic feelings of the American people to the greatest extent. Roosevelt must be very aware of this, but from the perspective of conspiracy theory, the United States really shouldn't have declared war on Japan at that time.
Because the best choice in the interests of the United States should be to jump left and jump right, that is, to let Germany and Japan fight with the Soviet Union and Britain for a longer time, so that they can weaken each other and the United States can benefit from it. This may be the most profitable choice for the United States.
However, regardless of the truth behind Pearl Harbor, it was definitely a good thing for China at that time that the United States entered the war. After all, Japan also tasted the taste of being destroyed.