Franklin

December 7, 1941 is the day the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. A day later The United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. World War two now had its two largest combatants fully engaged. The war would intensify as man’s inhumanity to man scaled new and scientific heights. “Yesterday, December 7, 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.” It was around 9:30 in the morning when then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt went before the Congress to request a formal declaration of war against Japan. He gave a speech about the sad destruction of the pacific fleet the day before. His address was broadcast over every radio and school loud speaker in the country.