== Semi-protected? == 
 Could an editor please add this into the article? The more references, the better. The last paragraph of "Background to conflict" should be changed to: 

  
 There has been ongoing controversy due to allegations made by conspiracy theorists and military historians that some members of the Roosevelt administration had advance knowledge of the attack, and that this was purposefully ignored in order to gain public and Congressional support for America entering the war on the side of the British Empire and her allies. Historian and novelist, Thomas Flemming, argues that President Roosevelt, himself, had wished for Germany or Japan to strike the first blow, but did not expect the United States to be hit as severely as she was in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral James Otto Richardson, who was fired by Roosevelt for refusing to dock his fleet in Pearl Harbor, blamed the President for the "initial defeats in the Pacific" as "direct, real and personal."Stinnett, Robert. Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (Free Press, 1999); Toland, John. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath (Berkley, 1986). 

  

 This paragraph was lacking some references, but the article is semi-protected, so I cannot add them in, myself. Click "Edit" to view the source of my post.