earA Rhetorical look at Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation Given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt David Thayer English 112 This speech was in relations to the horrible and reprehensive attack on Midway. It was the start of the Unites States in World War II (WWII). The influence this speech had on the American people was of great importance to the acceptance of our entrance to the war. It showed that by allowing the people to know the gravity of this incident it would get their approval. President Roosevelt used Pathos and Logos to attract the nation to the idea that if we did not act swiftly with force we would get attacked again and many more innocent lives would be taken.
He used these examples to try to get people angry at them and see that this war is the only way that they can give them what they deserved. Another place that he shows his logic on the subject is when he says, “It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.” He wanted to show that this battle could not be avoided because it was not an accident on their part. With the distance that they are from Hawaii, they were sure to be planning it because it was easy to get to and they wanted to purposefully anger the United States. Though these two examples are the ones that stood out the most, Roosevelt’s speech was full of logic that he used to try to convince the
It is important to United States History as it marks the first time war had been brought to the country’s shores. It ended the belief that the United States was untouchable because of its distance from other worldly powers and it propelled the country into the spotlight as a world power to be reckoned with. In the early morning hours of December 7th 1941 an intelligence report was obtained by United States government officials indicating that an attack on a United States port by the Japanese was imminent. But the information was not passed on to officials at Pearl Harbor until after the attack was already in progress. The attack came in two waves, the first of which consisted of 183 planes and the second of which consisted of 167 additional planes.
The Japanese seemed to have great success after Pearl Harbor as they followed this with the rapid conquest of Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, Malaya and New Guinea. However the Japanese did not know that in the long run, this would cost them the war as they awoke, “The Sleeping Giant.” The US and Japan fought all over the pacific. Japan used suicide attacks, kamikaze planes, and refused to surrender. They showed
The purpose of the speech was to ask of congress to make a declaration of war to the Japan Empire. That day the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor nobody is going to forget that day. He spoke clearly, slowly, and also had good pauses. His pauses were strong in his speech. Those pauses in his speech represented strength and the anger that American citizen had.
They were relocated because, of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, as a surprise military strike for the U.S Pacific Fleet from interfering with the decisions of the Japanese Empire. This had happened on the morning of December 7, 1941. During these relocation times, Japanese-Americans fought
A reason why Ma believes the letter is that it is written after the Pearl Harbor attack. The attack which causes United States involvement into the World War II, was one of the biggest loses for the U.S. This plants a seed in her mind that Japan is very strong and takes control of the war. The fact that Japan would send ships for foreign Japanese residents tells Ma what she wants to hear. The whole letter it seems is written to assure the foreign Japanese residents what they believed.
American Propaganda During World War Two Many of us are familiar with the day that will live in infamy. On December 7th 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and launched America into the second world war. Before that fateful day many Americans were against the country joining in on World War Two, But after most felt a patriotic call to duty and enlisted, but what about the civilians left behind and how was our nation going to afford the war. Uncle Sam had the answers and they came in the form of propaganda. Propaganda is defined as the process of spreading information or ideas in a way that is meant to make people except them.
21, 1942”. These two documents talk about the sadness of loss, safety of people and most of all loss of dignity. In document one Franklin Roosevelt talks about how the U.S was “suddenly And deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan.” This was FDR’s first statement in his speech to congress which made a very strong and bold point since the beginning. The reason I think it is strong and bold is because he begins with a very sensitive subject a day after a lot the American lives were lost. He then goes in and explains how the government was in the process of “peace in the pacific” when the attacked occurred meaning that they didn’t the U.S a chance to fix the problem before they attacked.
On 8th December 1941, a day after the after the Pearl Harbor attack, Roosevelt meets with the Congress, the US declared war against Japan. By this time the war had taken different fronts. Alliances had been formed. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill’s came up with the Allies alliances which also included France. While the Germanys were in the Axis Alliances, which consisted: Russia, Japan, and Italy among others, big regimes (Kearns).