Singapore and Hong Kong and in part due to Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s pledge to FDR to declare war “within the hour” of any Japanese attack on the United States.

Roosevelt’s request to declare war against both Axis powers — in accordance with Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. “The forces endeavoring to enslave the entire world now are ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1941 (UP) -- President Roosevelt today in person asked Congress to declare that "a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire" as a result of ...

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Roosevelt famously describes the previous day as "a date which will live in infamy." Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought ...

But by 1934 this honeymoon had frayed, and a year later it had given way to a war of words. Roosevelt complained ... Black, he declared, "is an enthusiast for investigations, but in the realm ...

soon to be the longest-serving member of Congress in history - recalls the scene on the House floor in 1941 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared war on Japan. SportsYahoo Sports ...

Roosevelt signed a proclamation declaring U.S. neutrality in World War II. The United States joined ... vanished on a short flight in western Nevada. He was declared dead five months later.