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Salle 7 - Persecutions | The Resistance
Oct–Dec 41

On December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt declared before the United States Congress: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will forever be etched in history as a day of infamy.”

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Photo, Dec. 8, 1941 © United States National Archives

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7.2 A New Phase in the Policy of Terror

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