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22 hours ago · Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt obtained a declaration of war on Japan. After Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. on December 11, 1941, the U.S. Congress approved additional declarations of war in return.
4 days ago · Summarize this Article. The war in China, 1937–41. Investigate devastation wrought by Japan on Manchuria and China during the Great Depression. In September 1931 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Manchuria, and refugees fled their burning cities.
1 day ago · On 22 November 1943 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss a strategy to defeat Japan. The meeting was also known as the Cairo Conference and concluded with the Cairo Declaration .
2 days ago · A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The declaration is usually the act of delivering a performative speech or the presentation of a signed document by an authorized party of a national government in order to create a state of war between two or more sovereign states.
3 days ago · The United States finally entered the war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His abiding interest in naval ships and strategy and his experience as assistant secretary of the Navy helped him form a close working relationship with his military commanders.
4 days ago · Japan - Militarism, Expansionism, War: Each advance by the military extremists gained them new concessions from the moderate elements in the government and brought greater foreign hostility and distrust. Rather than oppose the military, the government agreed to reconstitute Manchuria as an “independent” state, Manchukuo.
2 days ago · Japan - WWII, Defeat, Pacific: The European war presented the Japanese with tempting opportunities. After the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941, the Japanese were torn between German urgings to join the war against the Soviets and their natural inclination to seek richer prizes from the European colonial territories to the south.
