Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech In this famous speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lists the unprovoked attacks by Japan and details America's reasons for declaring war.
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Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech In this famous speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lists the unprovoked attacks by Japan and details America's reasons for declaring war. After the devastation at Pearl Harbor, the United States could no longer remain detached from the events in Europe and Asia. After this speech and the ensuing congressional vote, the United States entered the fray of the Second World War. FDR'S Pearl Harbor Speech TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: 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. The United States was at peace with that nati...
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