[Ryzorian]

Pearl Harbor was planed by Yamamoto or however you spell that admrial's name. Wether Hitler thought of it or offered to send troops, that's doubtful as it was a completely different theatre of war. Maybe if they had sent some U-Boats it might have helped.

The A-Bomb ( Manhattan project) was several years in the makeing. We didn't have any material from Germany to utilize, we had all thier scientists; Like Einstein. Germany was behind us in A-Bomb tech..they were ahead of us in missle tech...we got all thier missle tech guys after the war...the Russians had to re verse engineer the V-2's they managed to scrub up. Any one not notice how the Tomahawk missle looks almost like a V-1 buzz bomb?

The US was aware of the pre dawn attacks months before it happened. They had Cracked the Japanese code and knew what was going on. However, FDR, who wanted to get involved in the war with Germany needed something major to happen because the American population was uninterested in getting involved in European problems. So basically FDR forced Japan's hand via embargo and had a sweet candy in Pearl Harbor offered up. ( Minus the aircraft carriers of course).

This information was actually known then, the Rebublican's where going to use it in the campaign but were told not to because it would alert the Japanese to the fact that we had cracked thier codes, before the war even started. So the Rebublican canidate didn't use it, since it would hurt the war effort. ( can't think of anyone doing that these days, would be all over the tv news).