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 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 ...

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 ...

But I find relevant President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech, delivered on December 8, 1841. This speech asked that Congress declare war between the United States and Japan.

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.