USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was president at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
A
Winston Churchill.
B
President Bush.
C
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (FDR).
D
President Lincoln
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, an event he called “a date which will live in infamy", Roosevelt obtained a congressional declaration of war against Japan.

Detailed explanation-2: -The biography for President Roosevelt and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Roosevelt said: 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.

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