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Teddy Roosevelt was president during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and won the Nobel Prize for negotiating an end to that war. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Germany on 11 December 1941.
On April2,1917, President Woodroow Wilson had pushed for war against Germany.
The sinking of ships carrying Americans
A declaration of war against Germany.
The invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 was followed by a declaration of war against Germany by Britain and France two days later.
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The resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany. Taking the SAT test?
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war. With 50 Representatives and 6 Senators in opposition, the declaration of war by the United States against Germany was passed by the Congress on April 4, 1917, and was approved by the President on April 6, 1917.
No, Goering was never President of Germany. He was however Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and Hitler's designated successor. But towards the end of the war Hitler started blaming Germany's losses on Goering and eventually had him arrested. Not long afterward he was captured by the Allies and tried for conspiracy to wage war, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was scheduled to be executed after the Nuremberg trials, but he committed suicide two hours before he was to be hanged in 1946.
President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress declared war upon the German Empire; on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration.
On 2nd April1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson here cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States. The U.S. Senate voted in support to declare war on Germany based on the citing.
According to the Constitution, only Congress can formally declare war. In the case you mention, Congress declared war against 'Imperial Germany' on April 6, 1917 in a Joint Resolution. President Woodrow Wilson gave his approval of the declaration.