...When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, La Guardia and Eleanor Roosevelt visited the West Coast. Part fact-finding mission, part-morale raising tour, their visit failed to quell the rising fears that more attacks were coming and that the nation was virtually defenseless. As the face...

... and other post-Pearl Harbor imagery. As Kuniyoshi was forced to confront a host of conundrums, he would produce a series of public patriotic declarations in an attempt to counter heightened anti-Japanese feelings, to change the public's misinformed opinions of residents of Japanese descent, and to mitigate...

.... Barkley sponsored and shepherded the Lend-Lease bill through the Senate in 1941. Later that year Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Barkley Alben W congressional membership George Walter F Gillette Guy M Hatch Act New Deal Roosevelt Franklin D...

...After World War II, Barkley chaired the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. His committee’s recommendations were later fulfilled by passage of the National Security Act, which created the Central Intelligence Agency and what was ultimately called the Department...

...This chapter opens with the bombing of Pearl Harbor that catapulted Truman Smith out of retirement and back into his military duties. After receiving a call from George Marshall, Truman and Kay moved to Washington D.C. and Truman picked up his old position in the Pentagon. The chapter details...

...This chapter illustrates how Kikuchi shrewdly understood that cultivating a relationship with a figure as influential as Louis Adamic could only help his future career and long-term interest in matters of race and ethnicity. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Kikuchi indeed counted...

... that problems existed and required forceful action by the United States. Similarly, leaders often overlooked looming problems, ranging from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Chinese intervention in the Korean War and the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, that required their urgent attention but did not receive...

...This chapter explores the use of Ellis Island as an internment camp for Japanese nationals during World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese New Yorkers were quickly rounded up, detained at Ellis Island, and interned in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) camps. Immigration...

...This chapter examines the impact of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on American families. It explains that during this time fear became America's collective consciousness and altered the shape and tenor of people's lives and that the action of the Japanese coupled with the early success...

..., this book takes the long view—from the attack on Pearl Harbor up to the election of John F. Kennedy—revealing the ways that World War II and its aftermath shaped men. Offering accounts of people both ordinary and extraordinary, the book explores the nature and after effects of combat, the culture of fear...

... paradigm shifts, still fail to adapt to changing circumstances until after disaster has struck. The chapter also outlines a series of events that illustrate the failure to adapt to novel security threats: the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the terrorist...

...At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, three federal agencies—the FBI, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and Army Intelligence—were engaged in surveillance of, and investigation into the loyalty of, residents of the United States who were...

...The attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in war and disruption. The penniless Clark Terry decided to go back to his sister's house. It was during this time that Clark came to know about Len Bowden's band and music. Len Bowden was a veteran player who played trombone, and offered a gig to Clark. Clark...

...This chapter looks at the views of civil rights activists and southern whites regarding the “Double V” campaign launched during World War II. Civil right activists following attacks on Pearl Harbor considered the campaign as an attack on white supremacy. Southern whites feared that the inclusion...

... recuperate the kind of fiction that educated Americans were reading before Pearl Harbor, and to trace the continuities in their taste through the war years and after. To that end, the chapter also looks at homefront writing, homecoming novels, and the postwar social environment by focusing on the tradition...

... States did not understand Japan’s intentions. Later, when the Episcopal Church withdrew its entire missionary delegation from Japan, Rusch defiantly stayed in Tokyo. Days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Rusch and many of his friends were arrested by Japanese police. Christianity “Gandhi of Japan...

... an island of plenty in the middle of Europe. Jewish laws continued to affect society but were frequently circumvented. The Rapid Corps suffered devastating losses and the government prevailed on Germany to allow its withdrawal. Four days after Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States...

...Freeth was praised as a lifesaving hero in the Hawaiian press, and though Alexander Hume Ford (who’d founded the Outrigger Canoe Club in 1908) wanted Freeth to lifeguard at Waikīkī, Freeth decided to work as an underwater diver at Pearl Harbor to help build Dry Dock Number One for the U.S. Navy. He...

... actually doing so. Alexander Keith computer viruses cyberspace distributed denial of service DDoS attacks Israel Panetta Leon Pearl Harbor Shamoon virus strategy Stuxnet worm United States US war Iran network attacks Russia Ukraine coercion political probability technology espionage...

.... But after the surprise Japanese air attack decimated the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, United Features Syndicate touted that the column’s reports had stood up consistently. ¹ Once his partner left for the army, Drew Pearson devoted more of the column to foreign...