At approximately 12:30 p.m., on Dec. 8, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a speech before a joint session of Congress that opened with these words: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which ...
The spade of history last week turned up a hitherto secret set of facts. For biographers of Internationalist Franklin Roosevelt, the great salesman of the United Nations Organization idea, the facts ...
On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan conducted a surprise attack against the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor. In total, 19 U.S. ships were crippled or destroyed, as well as over 350 aircraft. The attack ...