The president at the time was Franklin Roosevelt. He was a very strong leader, but had a little bit of work he needed done, but that is only an opinion. In Washington D.C., Franklin Roosevelt made a final appeal to the Emperor of Japan for peace, but there wasn’t a reply. Later on that day, the United States code breakers service begins intercepting a 14-part Japanese message and broke the first 13-parts, passing them on to the President and the Secretary of State. The Americans believed that the Japanese were going to attack Southeast Asia.

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date that will live in infamy- the United States of America, was suddenly, and deliberatly attacked by naval and airforces of the Empire of Japan.” The war against Japan, was a war for revenge.

Afternoon on December 8, President Roosevelt went before a shared session of congress to ask for a declaration of war. He began his breif five-minute speech by saying:

It was 2:25 on a Sunday afternoon in Washington D.C. when the wire services sent a seven-word announcement over the news tickers: “White House says Japanese attacks Pearl Harbor.”

Meanwhile, the Japanese are about to take off for Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagume, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes are about to attack. At 6 A.M., the first attack lash of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles North of Oahu and heads for the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. At 7:02 A.M. two army operators at Oahu’s northern shore radar station disregards their reports, thinking they are American B-17 plan

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