Everything you need to know about The Terror: Infamy on AMC

Attack on Pearl Harbor By Imperial Japanese Navy – Official U.S. Navy photograph NH 50930., Public Domain, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=223876

“A date which shall live in infamy”

History buffs will pick up on the reason AMC chose to name the new season “Infamy.” It comes from the speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. “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.”

Shortly after the attack, Japan declared war on the United States and the British Empire. Not long after that, on February 19, 1942, Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of the Japanese-American population of the United States with Executive Order 9066.