AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Hiroshima
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D-Day
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Pearl Harbor
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt’s framing of the Pearl Harbor attack became, in effect, the standard American narrative of the events of December 7, 1941.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-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.