“A day of infamy.” Those words are engraved in history. Even the most absentminded of Americans today know how, in a speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, which lasted just seven minutes, President Roosevelt characterized the dawn of the previous day, when Japanese planes ambushed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, causing serious damage to US ships and planes, and more importantly killing 2400 military personnel and civilians. The following day, the two Houses of government convened and quickly approved the declaration of war on Japan with 410 votes in favor and one against (the Republican Jeannette Rankin).