erican newspapers were printing that the prospect of war with Japan was remote. Some radio stations were broadcasting that the invasion was on its way. Irate and unbelieving callers were jamming the switchboard trying to find out more information. People on the New York's Time Square were shouting angrily saying, "We're going to get them for this". (p. 140 The World At Arms)Comment - This was a good example of the epoch of incredulity because so many Americans refused to believe they were now at war with Japan. They could not accept that America was invaded.Edgar Hoover ordered that all Japanese-Americans needed to be rounded up in the USA. During a baseball game between Paramount studio team and a Japanese team, the FBI agents started arresting the Japanese. Many of California's Americans that were of Japanese decent quickly sent the White House telegrams denouncing Japan's actions. In spite of the denouncement, all Japanese-Americans were rounded up anyway under an order signed by President Roosevelt in February, 1942. (p. 140, The World At Arms).Comment - Americans, especially those with Japanese decent, were stunned that they were being imprisoned because of the invasion. The Japanese-Americans were in denial, and did not believe that Japan had intentions to invade Pearl Harbor and cause so much destruction to the American people. g.W.W.I - "It was the season of hope"While the war was going on, the President of the United States dreamed of a Peace Conference where he would bring peace to all the American people. He felt his country's aims were different from those of his allies, and he avoided arguments over this issue. The President hoped to hold the allies economically and militarily in his hand once the war was over. (p. 135-136, Woodrow Wilson and World War I 1917-1921).Comment - This was a season of hope because President Wilson was moved by his feelings to bring peace to the American people. He hoped to end the wa...
