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On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and three days after the United States declaration of war against Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a "series of provocations" by the United States government when the U.S. was still officially neutral during World War II.
A memo that U.S. chargé d'affaires to Italy George Wadsworth II sent to the U.S. Secretary of State on December 9, 1941 confirmed that Italy would follow Germany in declaring war on America, stating: "Opinion in well-informed Rome circles is divided on the crying question of the day whether Germany will declare war on the United States. Italy ...
On December 11, 1941, the United States Congress declared war on Germany (Pub. L. 77–331, Sess. 1, ch. 564, 55 Stat. 796), hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. [1] The vote was approved unanimously by both houses of Congress; 88–0 in the Senate and 393–0 in the House.
On December 11, 1941, in response to the Italian declaration of war on the United States, four days following the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and three days after the United States declaration of war on the Empire of Japan, the United States Congress passed the Joint Resolution Declaring That a State of War Exists Between The Government of Italy and the Government and the People ...
Guatemalan declaration: 1941-12-09 China: Germany Italy Japan: W [6] China and Japan had been at undeclared war since 1937: Second Sino-Japanese war. Declaration. 1941-12-11: Germany Italy United States: W [3] [6] German declaration. Italian declaration. 1941-12-11 United States Cuba Costa Rica Dominican Republic Guatemala Nicaragua: Germany ...
Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag announcing the declaration of war. [33] Italy declared war on the United States. "The powers of the steel pact, Fascist Italy and Nationalist Socialist Germany, ever closely linked, participate from today on the side of heroic Japan against the United States of America," Benito Mussolini declared in a ...
Hitler declares war against the United States on 11 December 1941. On 11 December 1941, three days after the United States declared war on Japan, [25] Germany declared war on the U.S.. Italy also declared war on the U.S. the same day. That same day, the United States, in its turn, declared war on Germany and Italy. [26]
On 11 December 1941, the same day as the German declaration of war against the United States and the Italian declaration, the three powers signed an agreement, already hammered out on 8 December, barring any separate peace with the United States or Britain. It was "intended as a propaganda accompaniment to the declaration of war".