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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.
Roosevelt's description of December 7, 1941, as "a date which will live in infamy" was borne out; the date became shorthand for the Pearl Harbor attack in much the same way that November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001, became inextricably associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the September 11 attacks.
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor. Preliminary planning for an attack on Pearl Harbor to protect the move into the "Southern Resource Area", the Japanese term for the Dutch East Indies and Southeast Asia generally, began early in 1941 under the auspices of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, then commanding Japan's Combined Fleet.
Battle of Sjenica (1941) Action at Bir el Gubi (December 1941) Bombing of Rangoon in World War II; Bombing of Singapore (1941) Battle of Borneo (1941–1942) Battle at Borodino Field; Japanese invasion of Burma
Transcription disc of We Hold These Truths (December 15, 1941). We Hold These Truths, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the United States Bill of Rights, was an hour-long radio program that explored American values and aired live on December 15, 1941, the first to be broadcast on all four major networks (CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue, and Mutual).
December 8, 1941 82–0 388–1: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Roosevelt requested the declaration citing the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces' attack on the United States Pacific Fleet in the attack on Pearl Harbor a day earlier. It was approved near-unanimously with only one dissenting vote in the entire Congress from Jeannette Rankin. [12] [19]
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With the entry of the United States into World War II on 7 December 1941 and the declaration of war on the US by Nazi Germany on 11 December, the war, especially in regard to the above statement, had become truly a World War. [1] Hitler announced this declaration of war on 11 December in the German Reichstag, a speech also broadcast on radio ...