HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Herbert Hoover
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Henry Truman
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Dec. 7, 1941, a date which would live in infamy, said Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, in a speech after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Pearl Harbor was attacked by Imperial Japanese forces in 1941.
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 supervised the mobilization of the American economy to support the war effort and implemented a Europe first strategy. He also initiated the development of the world’s first atomic bomb and worked with the other Allied leaders to lay the groundwork for the United Nations and other post-war institutions.