Read the excerpt from Roosevelt's address to
Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Based on the excerpt, what is the most likely reason
Roosevelt used such strong language in this speech?
Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in
infamy, the United States of America was suddenly
and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the
Empire of Japan. ... I ask that the Congress declare
that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by
Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war
has existed between the United States and the
Japanese Empire
O He wanted to convince Americans that war was the
only way to deal with Japan.
O He wanted to prevent Americans from seeking
revenge against Japan.
He wanted to show Americans that war with Japan
was a last resort
O He wanted to explain to Americans that isolationism
was still a valid option.

President Roosevelt is using strong language here because he wants to convince Americans that there was no other way to deal with Japanese aggression than to go to war with them.

He implied that peaceful negotiations could no longer occur on account of the Japanese having attacked the United States on Sunday, December 7, 1941, by bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and killing both military and civilians and that war was the only way to reply such aggression.