Yesterday,December 7th, 1941-a date which will live infamy-the United States of America was suddenly deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and , at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt,speech to Congress, December 8, 1941.
The event President Roosevelt refers to in his speech directly resulted in-
War beginning in Vietnam
Many Americans losing their jobs
The United States entering Second World War
The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States