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 ... declaration of war only against Japan ...

After Japan bombed Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war. Soon, the United States was involved in both theaters of World War II. Roosevelt won an ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study ...

U.S. President Franklin D ... Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and three days after America’s declaration of war on Japan, Hitler impulsively declared war on the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt ... in world affairs. Roosevelt believed the United States should. He cautiously nudged a skittish American public toward deeper involvement in the war that had been underway ...

Smith elected president of the United States ... trying to draw support for him." President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected ... the declarations of war in 1941, and through the prosecution of the war to final victory in 1945, although he would not live to see the surrenders of ...