On December 7, 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States naval base located at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Over 2,400 Americans died. The next day President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress to ask for a declaration of war in a historic speech where he called December 7th "a date that will live in infamy."
His vocabulary from that speech is filled with words that are strong and direct in their nature. Learn them here with this interactive vocabulary list Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941).
