Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aaronian, who learned of the attack on a car radio as he was returning from a YMCA sports convention, said the most memorable image of that day was hearing former President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 call for war against Japan...
...most powerful feeling of all was the reverberation of Roosevelt's voice making the announcement," Aaronian said...
...while Roosevelt, addressing the United States Congress, called the Japanese attack "a day that will live in infamy," Forbes said he thinks the strike was militarily legitimate...
...three divisions sent to help Britain fight Germany. But the Australians said they would not insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya, suggested to Roosevelt that a general of MacArthur's eminence might prove valuable. In his sweltering cave on Corregidor, MacArthur received by radio on Feb. 23 a presidential order to get to Australia to "assume command of all United States troops...
Almost immediately after Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941, Stalin began imploring Churchill -- and, after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt -- to open a second front in Europe to draw German forces away from Russia. The pressure from Moscow was especially intense during the battle for Stalingrad. Even after the German advance was halted and reversed in 1943, Stalin continued to declare that as mighty as the revived Red Army was, it could...