Was Pearl Harbor attack deliberately allowed, just to justify

Probably not.

The US knew something was coming, but "something" and "the entire peace negotiation was a ruse, and they're going to simultaneously attack every Western target in the Pacific" are two different things.

There were actually a couple days after Pearl Harbor where the entire Roosevelt White House was cursing their luck, because they knew that the Japanese would distract America from the war in Europe.

Then Hitler attacked, and they got the chance to leave Japan on the backburner and concentrate on Hitler.

>>1475391
You're thinking about it wrong. The US didn't need justification, it needed a way to get it's people into the idea of entering the war. The current president at that time got elected off of the slogan "He kept us out of the war". It's just that at the time the US was extremely unwilling (politics make that clear) and the US gov. needed to make people want to enter the war.

>>1475425
>The current president at that time got elected off of the slogan "He kept us out of the war"

I think you're thinking of Wilson.

Yes, see the McCollum memo. USA basically cucked their own people into sending thousands of youth to death.

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>>1475425
>The current president at that time got elected off of the slogan "He kept us out of the war"

>>1475494
He's an idiot. "Kept us out of the war" was Wilson's slogan not Roosevelt's. He confused WW1 with WW2.

No. If they had known the Pearl Harbor attack was incoming, they could have intercepted the IJN fleet at sea, sunk the carriers before the planes ever launched, and they still would have had all the sneak attack justification they would have needed in order to enter the war.

Furthermore, they still would have had their fleet intact for engaging the war, and furthermore, the American public, while still incensed at the Japanese for their sneak attack, wouldn't have been quite so upset that it distracted the American command from fighting the war in Europe. If anything, the American public was too angry at the Japanese for its own good.

>>1475567
>and they still would have had all the sneak attack justification
I don't think so. They needed public martyrs for the photoshoot.

>>1475391
Like most of these things, there's a lot of evidence for and against:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theory

It's not quite as cut and dry as say, the sinking of the Lusitania, or the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

>>1475593
You dont need a photoshoot after you have won the war in 1 battle

>>1475643
>[citation needed], the article

Not really. They expected an attack when they seized gold, but they miscalculated and took extra damage.

>>1475593

they would still have dead sailors and airmen if they intercepted their attack
"these men died defending the US from a sneak attack that would have been devastating had it succeeded"