"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" speech
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The "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" speech is a famously rousing and comically inaccurate motivational monologue delivered by John "Bluto" Blutarsky in the 1978 film *National Lampoon's Animal House*.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" speech Context triple: [John "Bluto" Blutarsky, knownFor, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" speech]
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"Day of Infamy" speech
The "Day of Infamy" speech is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic address to the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, calling for a declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was the surprise Japanese military strike on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, that led to the United States’ entry into World War II.
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Declaration of war on Japan
The Declaration of war on Japan was the formal U.S. congressional resolution passed on December 8, 1941, that brought the United States into World War II following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII)
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII) was the major U.S. Pacific Fleet base in Hawaii that became the focal point of American naval power and the site of the Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941.
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Osawatomie speech
The Osawatomie speech was a 1910 address by Theodore Roosevelt in Osawatomie, Kansas, in which he outlined his progressive political philosophy that came to be known as the New Nationalism.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" speech Target entity description: The "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" speech is a famously rousing and comically inaccurate motivational monologue delivered by John "Bluto" Blutarsky in the 1978 film *National Lampoon's Animal House*.
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A.
"Day of Infamy" speech
The "Day of Infamy" speech is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic address to the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, calling for a declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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B.
attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was the surprise Japanese military strike on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, that led to the United States’ entry into World War II.
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C.
Declaration of war on Japan
The Declaration of war on Japan was the formal U.S. congressional resolution passed on December 8, 1941, that brought the United States into World War II following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
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D.
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII)
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII) was the major U.S. Pacific Fleet base in Hawaii that became the focal point of American naval power and the site of the Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941.
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E.
Osawatomie speech
The Osawatomie speech was a 1910 address by Theodore Roosevelt in Osawatomie, Kansas, in which he outlined his progressive political philosophy that came to be known as the New Nationalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
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John "Bluto" Blutarsky in National Lampoon's Animal House