and Great Britain to respond with a declaration of war on Germany. Japan, allied with Britain, followed suit. At first, the United States declared itself officially neutral, and President Woodrow ...

At the end of World War II, the Japanese Unit 731 planned a biological attack on the United States. Tokyo had the ...

During the twentieth century, as the United States grew into ... theater during World War II and later in Korea and Indochina, and the fear of only a decade ago that Japan might overtake America ...

In one reading, the clause requires Congress to issue a formal declaration of war before the United States may begin hostilities. The more common view among these scholars, however, is that the ...

prompting Japan’s ally Germany to declare war on the United States. The Imperial Japanese Army continues its expansionist ambitions by hurling itself into a series of offensives across Asia.

It would be described by the press as “one of the oddest hostilities of the decade,” in which a sleepy coastal town of 1,000 people publicly declared war on Japan and the USSR, during the peak ...