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