The 7the December is not a good day for the United States.
After the sinking of the Lusitania, President Woodrow Wilson announced an increase in the size of the US armed forces. However, in the 1916 Presidential election campaign, Wilson stressed his policy of neutrality and his team used the slogan: "He kept us out of the war".
On 31st January, 1917, Germany announced a new submarine offensive. Wilson responded by breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany.
On 2nd April, Woodrow Wilson asked for permission to go to war. This was approved in the Senate on 4th April by 82 votes to 6, and two days later, in the House of Representatives, by 373 to 50. Still avoiding alliances, war was declared against the German government (rather than its subjects). War against Austria-Hungary was not declared until 7th December, 1917.
24 years later to the day, and 70 years ago today, on the 7th December 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Pacific Fleet, its defending Army Air Force and Marine Air Forces at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, which brought about a declaration of War by the United States on the Japanese Empire.
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