LAD #34: FDRs Declaration of War

Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), FDR issued a declaration of war on Japan to Congress.  FDR claimed that the confidence of the armed forces, the overall power of the nation, and a conviction and determination brought by the People, Japan must not go unpunished.  Based on the facts of the attack and events leading up to it (Midway, Hawaii, Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, etc.) there is no denying that Japan secretly and suddenly broke any notion of peace that had ever existed between the US and the Pacific island nation.  To confirm and ensure the nation's interest and protection from this aggressive island overseas, Roosevelt urged Congress to ultimately declare war on Japan -- which would bring the United States into the Second World War.  A war that most definitely would not have been won without the aid of the United States.