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Winston Churchill's first address to the U.S. Congress was a 30-minute World War II-era radio-broadcast speech made in the chamber of the United States Senate on December 26, 1941. The prime minister of the United Kingdom addressed a joint meeting of the bicameral legislature of the United States about the state of the UK–U.S. alliance and ...
The Infamy Speech was a brief address of approximately 6 minutes 30 seconds, delivered to a joint session of the Congress at 12:30 p.m. on December 8, 1941. [12] Secretary of State Cordell Hull had recommended to Roosevelt to devote more time to the exposition of Japanese-American relations and the lengthy but unsuccessful effort to find a ...
Pages in category "1941 speeches" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Winston Churchill's address to Congress (1941)
In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), ... Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister of Britain, called for ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] ... In August 1941, Churchill made his first transatlantic crossing of the war ... to address 3,000 British and American ...
Winston Churchill took over as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, eight months after the outbreak of World War II in Europe.He had done so as the head of a multiparty coalition government, which had replaced the previous government (led by Neville Chamberlain) as a result of dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war, demonstrated by the Norway debate on the Allied evacuation of Southern Norway.
8 December 1941 (): Japan attacks Hong Kong, Malaya and the Philippines in a simultaneous attack with Pearl Harbor but is counted a day later due to the International Date Line. [5] 26 December 1941 (): Churchill makes his first address to a joint session of the United States Congress. [3]
December 7, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor; December 8, 1941: Joint Session of Congress met to hear President Roosevelt deliver his "Day of Infamy" speech; December 26, 1941: Joint session of the United States Congress met in the Senate chamber for an address by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.