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The Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial Government of Japan and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
Feb 8, 2022 · Early in the afternoon of December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his chief foreign policy aide, Harry Hopkins, were interrupted by a telephone call from Secretary of War Henry Stimson and told that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt requests for Congress to declare war on the Japanese Empire one day after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, an American naval base in Hawaii. In support of his request, President Roosevelt cites Japan’s planned attack and additional Japanese attacks on locations in the Pacific.
Nov 16, 2009 · On December 8, as America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks the US Congress to declare war on Japan following the previous day's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. In his speech to Congress, Roosevelt states: Yesterday, December 7th, 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 next day, President Roosevelt went before Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. On December 9 he spoke to the nation by radio, describing the events that had led to war. The message of December 8 and portions of the radio address are reprinted below.
