December 7, 1941 was, as President Roosevelt said a day later when he asked Congress for a declaration of war, “A date which will live in infamy.” HIs speech lasted seven minutes. The attack united the American people who had been bitterly divided on the matter of entering the war that was consuming Europe – France conquered, Great Britain neutered, the Soviet Union teetering – or remaining, somehow, neutral.

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