December 7, 1941

Seventy years ago today Japanese forces bombed American military installations in Hawaii. A day later President Franklin Roosevelt requested Congress for a declaration of war with Japan. 
 Listen to his speech.

His speech concludes:

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. 

With confidence in our armed forces- with the unbounding determination of our people- we will gain the inevitable triumph- so help us God. 

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.