Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941 ("a day which will live in infamy"), FDR declares war, announcing the U.S's entry into WWII. He speaks of the deceitful ways of the Japanese, who had been feigning peace in preparation of this brutal attack on a critical American naval base. They had not wanted peace in the Pacific as they had implied, and it was because of this that FDR found it necessary and justified to go to war, as they needed to defend themselves. Through a decisive victory, he believed the U.S would never again be threatened as they had in this attack.
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