The US Constitution provides that the congress shall declare war. The congress declared war on Germany when Woodrow Wilson was president in 1917 and when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president in 1941.
According to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress has the power to declare war. But the President is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president when World War II began.
Germany declared war on the US, the US then declared war on Germany.
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor we declared war on them. Germany was an ally of Japan so they declared war on us. Italy was an ally of Germany so they went along with Germany and declared war.
President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany in World War I on April 6, 1917.
America declared war on Germany in 1941.
Winston Churchill was not the president, he was the Prime Minister, he declared war on Germany
I don't think that the US declared war on Germany. Germany declared war on the US on December 11th 1941
If this question is in reference to World War II, most countries declared war on Germany because Germany declared war on them.
The US did not declare war on Germany. Germany declared war on the US, on December 11, 1941. This was four days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and three days after the US declared war on Japan. Shortly after, Italy also declared war on the US. The procedure is the president asks Congress for a Declaration of War, and Congress then votes on the question.
USA didn't declare war on Germany, Germany declared war on the USA. Germany declared war on the USA because the USA declared war on japan when the Japanese attacked pearl harbour in Hawaii
Australia declared war on Germany as well.