Day of Infamy

American  

noun

1. December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.

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Example Sentences

I’ve seen Dostoyevsky’s deck of cards, read the first drafts of Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech, stared down the field from Virginia Woolf’s writing cottage toward the river where she drowned.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

Day of Infamy The tragedy that struck the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive