“Yesterday, December 7th, 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 nation and at the solicitation of Japan, still in conversation with its government and its Emperor, looking towards the maintenance of peace in the Pacific."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speaking before a joint session of Congress and
simultaneously radio broadcast, the “Infamy Speech” of Franklin Roosevelt was
widely accepted by all Americans.
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Even Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, who had just been
the Keynote speaker at an “America First” rally in Pittsburgh the day before
(December 7th) and the author of several “Neutrality Acts” passed by
Congress in the mid-to-late 1930s, couldn’t help but vote for the declaration
war. Indeed, the “America First Committee disbanded shortly after the attack on
Pearl Harbor. Indecisiveness and argument over whether America should enter the
war was over.
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Now, the American nation stood united against Japan.
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