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11 december 1941
The President's Message
To the Congress of the United States:
On the morning of Dec. 11 the Government of
Germany, pursuing its course of world conquest, declared war against the United
States. The long-known and the long-expected has thus taken place. The forces
endeavoring to enslave the entire world now are moving toward this hemisphere.
Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and
civilization. Delay invites great danger. Rapid and united effort by all of the
peoples of the world who are determined to remain free will insure a world
victory of the forces of justice and of righteousness over the forces of
savagery and of barbarism. Italy also has declared war against the United
States.
I therefore request the Congress to recognize a
state of war between the United States and Germany, and between the United
States and Italy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The War Resolution
Declaring that a state of war exists between
the Government of Germany and the government and the people of the United States
and making provision to prosecute the same.
Whereas the Government of Germany has formally
declared war against the government and the people of the United States of
America:
Therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
that the state of war between the United States and the Government of Germany
which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared;
and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval
and military forces of the government to carry on war against the Government of
Germany; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the
resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
  
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