Infamy Speech Before Pearl Harbor

200 Words1 Page

On December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. In the attack, 2,403 Americans were killed, including 68 civilians. When news of the attack reached the rest of the United States, there was an immediate shift in the country, and people looked at the Japanese with disgust, as if they were potential threats to the United States. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his well-known Infamy speech, calling for a declaration of war on Japan. Congress and the House of Representatives obliged, and only an hour later the United States had declared war on Japan. Consequently, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. as well on December 11, three days after the U.S. declared war on Japan. At

Open Document