USA HISTORY

“Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:Yesterday, December 7th, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.” Franklin D. Roosevelt The quote above describes what event?

(A) Hiroshima

(B) D-Day

(C) ** Pearl Harbor

Concept note-1: -Roosevelt’s framing of the Pearl Harbor attack became, in effect, the standard American narrative of the events of December 7, 1941.

Concept note-2: -Speaker, and Members of the Senate and House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Concept note-3: -On draft No. 1, Roosevelt changed “a date which will live in world history” to “a date which will live in infamy, ” providing the speech its most famous phrase and giving birth to the term, “day of infamy, ” which December 7, 1941, is often called.

Concept note-4: -On this date, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, addressing the nation in a Joint Session in the House Chamber, asked Congress to declare war against Japan in response to the surprise attack against American naval facilities in and around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a day earlier.