Accordingly, even though Roosevelt was well aware of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he let it happen, and was relieved and pleased when it did take place. The evidence to support ...

More than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan the next day during a speech to Congress. He famously referred to December ...

While World War II began in 1939, the United States did not officially join the war until 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor ... which will live in infamy.” To see FDR’s original speech with ...