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President Roosevelt made the Infamy Speech (with its famous opening line "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,") to a Joint session of Congress. Within one hour the United States declared war on Japan. Lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war.
On December 6, they came to within 10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) of the mouth of Pearl Harbor [76] and launched their midget subs at about 01:00 local time on December 7. [77] At 03:42 Hawaiian time, the minesweeper Condor spotted a midget submarine periscope southwest of the Pearl Harbor entrance buoy and alerted the destroyer Ward .
The Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 was an encounter between Adolf Hitler and the highest-ranking officials of the Nazi Party.Almost all important party leaders were present to hear Hitler declare the ongoing destruction of the Jewish race, which culminated in the Holocaust.
The temperature on the Moscow front falls to −31 °F (−37 °C). [12] German attacks are failing. Japanese naval and army forces continue to move toward Pearl Harbor and South-east Asia. 5 December: Germans call off the attack on Moscow, now 11 miles away; the USSR counter-attacks during a heavy blizzard. 6 December
All of this happened while the U.S. and Japan were officially engaging in diplomatic negotiations for possible peace in Asia. The day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the 77th United States Congress, calling December 7 "a date which will live in infamy".
Over 80 years later, Dec. 7, 1941 is a date that still lives in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche ...
December 9 – World War II: All assets from Thailand are frozen. [10] December 11 – World War II: American forces repel a Japanese landing attempt at Wake Island. Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind. Hungary severs diplomatic relations with the United States. [11] December 12 – World War II:
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