¶ … War Address" by F.D. Roosevelt Discussion analysis on Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Infamy Speech"

The Second World War had been noted as the most destructive conflict in the history of humanity, mainly because it involved and separated nations of the world into two factions: the Axis and Alliance powers. These factions reflect the kind of conflict that led to the declaration of the world war, wherein the Axis group was composed primarily of Germany, Italy, and Japan, while the Grand Alliance involved the United States, Britain, and France. The Grand Alliance was formed as a protest against the Nazi government, led by Adolf Hitler, implemented its anti-Semitism propaganda across Europe, and it moved on to include the Asian region as well (with the participation of Japan).

The Pearl Harbor attack against the United States served as the catalyst that led to its participation as member of the Grand Alliance and involvement in fighting the world war. With its war efforts focused on fighting the Japanese forces, the U.S. had radically shifted from being a neutral nation towards being antagonistic not only against Japan's offensive attacks, but to the world war in general. Thus, after Japan's offensive action against the U.S. In 1941, then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the "Infamy Speech," which officially engaged the U.S. In the ongoing world war.

In the Infamy Speech, Roosevelt...

What made this speech effective as a piece of political propaganda was the preponderance of explicit content, information that convinced people that indeed, U.S.'s decision to go to war was justified and morally correct. In the texts that follow, a discussion of analysis of the Infamy Speech was conducted, focusing specifically on its explicit content. This paper posits that the Infamy Speech contained explicit content that laid bare the aggressive actions that the Axis powers had committed against the Alliance and neutral countries in general. The Infamy Speech was depicted as a political propaganda that showed the Grand Alliance as being the "right" or good side of the war, while its enemies were those portrayed as bad elements that triggered socio-political unrest to the rest of the world.
In putting forth the argument of "us-against-them" attitude to his countrymen, Roosevelt had enumerated the atrocities committed by Japan. These actions were considered unjustified and was simply an offensive act that intended to highlight Japan's military power, threatening countries all over the world, especially those in the Asian region. Japan as the antagonist and offender in the U.S.-Japan conflict was reflected through the President's implication that Japan resorted to treachery as a way of gaining the…