The long known and the long expected has thus taken place. The forces endeavoring to enslave the entire world now are moving toward this hemisphere. Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty, and civilization. Delay invites greater danger. Rapid and united effort by all the peoples of the world who are determined to remain free will insure a world victory of the forces of justice and of righteousness over the forces of savagery and of barbarism. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, address to the United States Congress, 1941 The address quoted above was likely given in response to which of the following?
(A) Germany's invasion of France
(B) Russia's occupation of eastern Poland
(C) Germany's bombing of Great Britain
(D) Italy's invasion of Ethiopia
(E) Japan's bombing of Hawaii
Answer: (E) Japan's bombing of Hawaii
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