The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” declared President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, triggered a congressional declaration of war against the ...

One day after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan on Dec. 8, 1941. War came upon the United States on as peaceful a Sunday as San Diego has enjoyed in ...

Clouds of war were gathering as the country celebrated Thanksgiving in 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said at a Founder’s Day dinner in Warm Springs, Ga., that it was possible American soldiers ...

THE Nazi assault on Bolshevik Russia ends one nightmare and begins another. The sinister prospect of a coalition between the two wings of world revolution, which haunted the minds of western statesmen ...

A top historian offers a compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in 20th-century history--December 1941--a Christmas season that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor ...

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 ...

BERLIN, June 21, 1941 (UP) - Following is the text of the German declaration by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop: "I have this morning received the Ambassador of the Soviet Union and informed ...

When the United States declared war on Japan after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attacks, it signified one of the last times the country officially declared war.