Upon learning of Pearl Harbor, even before FDR's address to Congress, Churchill realized that: "So, we had won after all! …We had won the war. England would li

Upon learning of Pearl Harbor, even before FDR's address to Congress, Churchill realized that: "So, we had won after all! …We had won the war. England would live; Britain would live; the Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. . . . We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end. We might not even have to die as individuals. Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force."