The day a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War
II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and
Japan. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) stated that date
will be a "a date which will live in infamy". Every year since the Pearl Harbor attacks, the President of the United States of
America orders the American flag to be flown at half staff on December 7.