Survey Results

In my survey I Posed 5 questions relevant to my topic:
1. Do you believe the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise to our government?
2. Would it taint your opinion of the United States government if you found out that they exploited the soldiers at Pearl Harbor by letting the attack happen without warning them?
3. Was it right for the US to retaliate against Japan by dropping the atomic bombs?
4. Would the United States have entered WWII if the events of Pearl Harbor had not occurred?
I chose question # 1 because I wanted to see if people knew about the many warnings the government got prior to the Japanese attack. Question # 2 was chosen because it seems like many individuals now days are quick to believe that the US government is corrupt. The third question regarding our retaliation was picked because a lot of Americans feel it was wrong for the US to retaliate against Afghanistan and Iraq and I was wondering if they felt the same in this instance. I chose the final question because there is evidence that Franklin D. Roosevelt allowed Pearl Harbor to happen in order to enter WWII with the support of the American citizens.
I expected yes answers to the first two questions and no as an answer to the third one. I was unsure of what people’s opinion would be on the fourth. I polled eleven individuals, six were adults, two of these were women, and all were over the age of 40. The remaining five were students under the age of 22. Two were male college students and three were in high school, and two of the high school students were female.
Everyone’s answers to the first two questions were exactly what I predicted. However, in the third question regarding bombing Japan, the adults all stated that they f felt it was right to retaliate against the Japanese, but the students disagreed. Two of the adults stated that the US would not have entered WWII if Pearl Harbor had not been attacked, and everyone else believed we would have gone to war eventually even without the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor.
In my future blogs I would go more in depth about the warnings that the US government received prior to the attack to show the evidence that this was not a surprise. I could also show the proof of how the President wanted to participate in WWII but could not without the support of the American people.