B. the attack on Pearl Harbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress on December 8, 1941, was in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place on December 7, 1941.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy . . .
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, 1941
Roosevelt is responding to which World War II event in the speech that followed this quotation?
A.
the Battle of the Bulge
B.
the attack on Pearl Harbor
C.
the discovery of the Holocaust
D.
the first use of a nuclear bomb
B. the attack on Pearl Harbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress on December 8, 1941, was in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place on December 7, 1941.