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President Franklin D. Roosevelt stands at a podium addressing Congress, surrounded by officials, as he declares war on Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack, December 8, 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor

President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests that Congress declare war against Japan on December 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day, “a date which will live in infamy.”
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