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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. Behind him are Vice President Henry Wallace (left) and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. To the right, in uniform in front of Rayburn, is Roosevelt's son James, who escorted his father to the Capitol.
The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech, was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941.
President Roosevelt, wearing a black armband, signs the Declaration of War on Japan on December 8, 1941. On December 8, 1941, at 12:30 PM ET the United States Congress declared war, (Pub. L. 77–328, 55 Stat. 795) on the Empire of Japan in response to its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent declaration of war the prior day.
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]
The Imperial edict of declaration of war by the Empire of Japan on the United States and the British Empire (Kyūjitai: 米國及英國ニ對スル宣戰ノ詔書) was published on 8 December 1941 (Japan time; 7 December in the US), 7.5 hours after Japanese forces started an attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor and attacks on ...
March 8 - President Roosevelt announces a program's completion to reopen banks across the US. [10] President Roosevelt holds his first news conference. [11] December 1 - Agriculture Secretary Wallace announces a Ford dealer bid for 700 trucks on the part of the civilian conservation corps during the evening. [12]
On December 8, Congress voted almost unanimously to declare war against Japan. [57] On December 11, 1941, Germany declared war on the United States, which responded in kind. [58] Roosevelt portrayed the war as a crusade against the aggressive dictatorships that threatened peace and democracy throughout the world. [59]
The First Washington Conference, also known as the Arcadia Conference (ARCADIA was the code name used for the conference), was held in Washington, D.C., from December 22, 1941, to January 14, 1942. President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Churchill of the United Kingdom attended the conference, where they discussed a future ...