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The War
FDR's Day of Infamy Speech
On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked a joint session of Congress for a declaration of war. Families in Sacramento, Waterbury, Luverne, Mobile and across the country gathered around their radios, and students at Auburn stood outside Langdon Hall to hear the address from a loudspeaker truck.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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2:07:27
Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
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By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
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On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
