The Price Of Empire---National Humiliation Day :-- The Germans advance into Moscow; the Japanese occupy Southern Vietnam and Cambodia; the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The "Day of Infamy" speech was delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on the U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the Philippines along with the Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire. The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as "a date which will live in infamy". Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II. The address is one of the most famous American political
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