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13185_7530_02
Subjects
History
War/ Militia

Keywords
Pearl Harbor
WW II
Japanese
Kamikaze attack
FDR
Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
state of war
congress
speech
1941
B&W

FDR addresses the Congress about the recent attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese embassies delivered a reply to a message to the Secretary of State only hours after the attack. The crowd cheers. He asks Congress to declare a state of war between the United States and the Japanese Empire.


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