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Foreword Preface Maps PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: "THE DAY OF INFAMY" The War in Europe The War in Asia The American Dilemma Toward Pearl Harbor The Documents Imperial Conference, November 5, 1941 Plan A and Plan B, November 7 and November 20, 1941 Washington Discussions on China and the Tripartite (Axis) Pact Cordell Hull, Memorandum, November 17, 1941 Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 18, 1941 Discussing Plan B Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 20, 1941 Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 22, 1941 Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 22, 1941 Draft Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 22, 1941 Revised Draft of Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 24, 1941 Final Draft of Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 25, 1941 Discarding the Modus Vivendi Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cable to Winston S. Churchill, November 24, 1941 Winston Churchill, Cable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 26, 1941 Winston Churchill, Cable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 30, 1941 The Hull Note Cordell Hull, Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement between the United States and Japan, November 26, 1941 Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 26, 1941 Japan''s View of the Hull Note Tokyo to Berlin, November 30, 1941 Washington to Tokyo, December 1, 1941 Tokyo to Washington, December 1, 1941 Tokyo to London, December 1, 1941 Tokyo to Washington, December 1, 1941 Washington to Tokyo, December 2, 1941 Washington to Tokyo, December 2, 1941 Tokyo to Washington, December 2, 1941 Washington to Tokyo, December 3, 1941 Washington to Tokyo, December 5, 1941 Tokyo to Washington, December 6, 1941 Imperial Conference, December 1, 1941 Japan''s December 7 Note Kichisaburo Nomura, Memorandum, December 7, 1941 Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, December 7, 1941 A Declaration of War That Was Never Sent, December _th, 1941 Illustrations PART TWO: INTRODUCTION: PEARL HARBOR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT China The Soviet Union Great Britain The British Commonwealth The Dutch East Indies The Philippines French Indochina Germany The Essays Sumio Hatano and Sadao Asada, Japan''s Decision to "Go South" Minoru Nomura, The Petroleum Question Waldo H. Heinrichs, Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and the U.S.-Japanese Crisis David Kahn, Pearl Harbor as an Intelligence Failure Katsumi Usui, The Chinese-Japanese War Wang Xi, China and U.S.-Japanese Relations Anthony Best, The British Perspective Ken''ichi Gotô, The Indonesian Perspective Bernd Martin, The German Perspective Alexei M. Filitov, The Soviet Perspective APPENDICES Chronology of Events Related to Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (1931-1941) Selected Bibliography Index