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History Lesson Plan on FDR Day of Infamy Speech

History Lesson Plan on FDR Day of Infamy Speech

On December 8, 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the US Congress. In one of the most famous speeches in US history, FDR urged Congress to declare war on Japan. This lesson plan focuses on the speech and its effect on American public opinion.