WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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“We want to try to make peace with Japan, Germany, and Italy.”
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“We will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.”
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“We do not want to be involved in the World War.”
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We do not know who dared to attack the U.S.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered this “Day of Infamy Speech.” Immediately afterward, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “Day of Infamy” speech, sometimes referred to as just “The Infamy speech", was delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thus that first historic sentence-the one that is usually quoted from the speech-was born: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Detailed explanation-4: -Early in the afternoon of December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his chief foreign policy aide, Harry Hopkins, were interrupted by a telephone call from Secretary of War Henry Stimson and told that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.