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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.
The German American Bund, or the German American Federation (German: Amerikadeutscher Bund, Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, AV), was a German-American Nazi organization which was established in 1936 as a successor to the Friends of New Germany (FONG, FDND in German). The organization chose its new name in order to emphasize its American credentials ...
From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the campaign of presidential and two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241.
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.
The court also referred to the question whether the surrender of the Third Reich in 1945 and the partition of Germany into occupation zones nullified the operation of the treaty, by stating: "We find no evidence that the political departments have considered the collapse and surrender of Germany as putting an end to such provisions of the ...
Germany regained control of the Saarland through a referendum held in 1935 and annexed Austria in the Anschluss of 1938. [160] The Munich Agreement of 1938 gave Germany control of the Sudetenland, and they seized the remainder of Czechoslovakia six months later. [71] Under threat of invasion by sea, Lithuania surrendered the Memel district in ...
The last American tanks were withdrawn from Germany in 2013, [151] but they returned the following year to address a gap in multinational training opportunities. [152] The U.S. had 35,000 American troops in Germany in 2017. [150] Germany and the United States are joint NATO members.
On August 8, 1941, Hitler stated that he looked forward to the eventual day when "England and Germany [march] together against America", and on January 7, 1942, he daydreamed that it was "not impossible" for Britain to quit the war and join the Axis side, leading to a situation where "it will be a German-British army that will chase the ...