What are some conspiracy theories involving Pearl Harbor?
Well, there is one primary theory that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had advanced warning that the Japanese were going to invade Pearl Harbor - that they were going to bomb it to bits. There specifically, there were possibly as many as 28 warnings, but he did nothing to warn the military or to perhaps, evacuate the area, or set up extra defenses for one principle reason - he wanted us to enter World War II and he was not satisfied with the Lend-Lease program. (We were helping out England. He wanted us to fight the Nazis. The American public - totally against that.) So, possibly, knowing that Pearl Harbor was about to occur, he allowed it to occur, so that would galvanize the country into allowing us to enter World War II. And, I should point out, even though the Japanese attacked us, our main thrust was in the European Theater not the Pacific Theater. We basically defeated Germany beginning with D-Day in June of 1944. It wasn't for more than a year later that we actually conquered, or vanquished, Japan. So, you hate to think that a President would do that, sacrifice lives to help his own agenda, but that's a possibility.
