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Declaration of War Against Japan
Declaration of War Against Japan
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On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, US President Franklin Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Japan. Roosevelt called December 7 “a date which will live in infamy”.
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