The third largest stock market crash in American history is indeed extraordinary. Wall Street was wailing all morning, and almost everyone was selling stocks wildly. After this morning, I don’t know if someone would declare bankruptcy.

Bad news kept coming. Japan had already published the news of an air strike on Pearl Harbor in yesterday's evening newspaper. In the reports of the Japanese, they naturally deliberately exaggerated the results of the battle and described the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor as an unprecedented great victory, and even claimed that Japan had wiped out the Pacific Fleet. At the same time, Japan also officially declared war on the United States and Britain.

When the news came to the United States, it happened to be on the morning of December 8, US time. After Wall Street received the news, the stock market, which had already fallen sharply, responded quickly, and the Dow Jones Index suddenly plummeted.

Immediately afterwards, news came from Hong Kong and the Philippines that after 8 hours of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army officially launched an attack on Hong Kong, and the British troops stationed in Hong Kong announced their surrender.

In Shanghai, the public concession occupied by the Japanese army, the British power in China was completely wiped out.

After France was defeated, France had lost control of the French Concession in Shanghai. In fact, the French Concession was under the substantial control of the Japanese at this time. The British army had already evacuated the public concession in Shanghai, so the Japanese army controlled the entire leased area in Shanghai without any effort.

Two hours after the Japanese occupied Hong Kong, Japanese planes appeared over the Philippines again, bombing US military bases in the Philippines, and then sending troops to land in the Philippines.

At this time, the US military commander-in-chief of the Philippines and the commander-in-chief of the US Far East Army was the famous General Douglas MacArthur.

At this time, MacArthur had two troops under his command, and had a navy and air force. Although his overall military strength was not as powerful as the Japanese army, he was not completely unable to fight. He could still do it with a little defense. However, MacArthur's misjudgment of the Japanese army's offensive and made mistakes in command, resulting in all the US fighter planes in the Philippines being destroyed by the Japanese army, causing the US military to lose its air defense capabilities. As a result, the US military defeat in the Philippines. At that time, MacArthur almost committed suicide with the pistol left by his father. Fortunately, Roosevelt personally ordered MacArthur to evacuate, and finally MacArthur retreated to Australia.

The future Americans praised MacArthur as a famous general. However, looking at MacArthur's poor command in previous wars, it is obvious that he is a general with far greater qualifications than strength. Not to mention being beaten in the future Korean battlefield, when talking about the Philippines, he was also improper in command and led by the Japanese. This guy is a bit like Zeng Guofan. He suffered a lot of defeats every few days. His resume was basically repeated defeats and almost committed suicide. In the end, the war was the one with the greatest contribution.

News of Japan's attack on the Philippines soon reached the United States. When we learned that the US military's military force in the Far East could not be saved, Wall Street was hit again. Those who had expected the stock market to rebound completely gave up their hopes. Those who originally wanted to buy the bottom also realized that this round of decline had just begun and it was still early before the stock market fell to a low point. It is not a wise choice to buy the bottom now.

Without anyone taking over, the Dow Jones Index naturally fell and fell again and again. For those investors, this is simply an unbearable torment. Perhaps every time they blink their eyes, the stocks they hold will fall by a price.

It was finally noon and the stock market was closed. At this time, news came out that US President Roosevelt would make a speech, and this speech would be broadcast live to the United States through the radio.

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In the US Congress, President Roosevelt sat in front of the podium to deliver a speech, behind him was Vice President Henry Wallace and House President Sam Rayburn, and in front of Rayburn was a man in uniform, Roosevelt's son James Roosevelt, who escorted Roosevelt to Congress.

"Yesterday was a notorious day..." Roosevelt began his speech in the microphone.

This time the speech was short and lasted only a little over 7 minutes. For Roosevelt, who is very good at speaking, the 7-minute speech was indeed too trivial.

However, this short 7 minutes is the most famous of all political speeches in American history, and Americans call it "infamy-speeh". The influence of this speech continued until the 21st century. After the outbreak of the incident, President Bush Jr. had imitated Roosevelt's speech, and even reused Roosevelt's theme in the speech. Through this speech, Bush Jr. linked the "911 Incident" and the Pearl Harbor Incident. Perhaps this performance reminded people of Roosevelt, so Bush Jr. received a high approval rating at that time, and this support also allowed Bush Jr. to launch the Iraq War smoothly in two years.

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After Roosevelt's speech in Congress, just half an hour later, the US Senate passed a bill to declare war on Japan, with the voting result being 82 to 0, and every senator voted in favor.

In the subsequent House of Representatives vote, the bill to declare war on Japan was also passed, with the voting result of 388 to 1, and the only one who voted against it was Congressman Janet Rankin.

Janet Rankin is the first female congressman in American history. She is a pacifist. As early as World War I, she voted against the declaration of war on Germany. At that time, there were 50 members of the congressman who opposed the declaration of war on Germany. Now she once again opposed the declaration of war on Japan. However, this time, she was the only one of all congressmen who opposed it.

Other members of Congress had already persuaded Janet Rankin before the vote, hoping that she could vote for voting in favor so that the bill to declare war on Japan could pass unanimously, but her persuasion was not successful. Janet Rankin stubbornly believed that the reason why voters supported her was because she would oppose the war.

But this is not the case. Voters support Janet Rankin in hope of peace, but it does not mean that they are bullied and will not fight back. This vote directly ended Janet Rankin's political career. She lost the support of voters forever and failed to run for re-election in the next election. After the Senate vote, she was surrounded by a group of angry reporters in a telephone booth, and finally she was able to leave under the escort of the police.

Janet Rankin may be a real White Lotus Virgin, or he may want to gain support from anti-war figures in this way to seek political benefits. But what is certain is that she failed. From another perspective, Janet Rankin has become a rat crossing the street in the eyes of Americans because of opposition to declare war on Japan. It has reached the point where everyone shouts to fight, which also shows that the Americans at this time are really eager to seek revenge on Japan!

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For Roosevelt, this may be the fastest Congress bill in his presidency.

At noon, Roosevelt came to Congress to give a speech. At 4:10 pm, the process between the Senate and the House of Representatives was completed. Roosevelt signed his name on the bill to declare war on Japan.

From this moment on, the United States officially declared war on Japan.

Nine hours ago, Britain had declared war on Japan. While Britain declared war, Australia, New Zealand and Free France led by Charles de Gaulle also declared war on Japan.

On the same day, Costaniga, Cuba, Guatemala, and Honduras, the American little brothers in the Americas declared war on Japan.

The Japanese side did not abstain from these countries that declared war on Japan, and the Japanese army launched an attack on British Malaya and Siam.

British Malaya could not stop the Japanese offensive and finally chose to surrender to Japan. Siam was a fence-broken British, and they signed the "Japan-Thai Offensive and Defensive Alliance Treaty" with Japan without hesitation, announcing their joining the Axis power. Faced with Siam, the licking dog, Japan also gave Siam a bite of dog food to Siam, and moved some parts of Myanmar and British Malaya to the northern region to ceded to Siam. After that, Siam would declare war on Britain and the United States in January 1942. On the second day of Japan's surrender, Siam immediately shamelessly said that the declaration of war on Britain and the United States that year was invalid. Then he began to become American dog licking dogs.

On the Japanese, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, and the United States subsequently declared war on Germany and Italy.

Japan, Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States, and British India declare war on Japan.

Japan, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa declared war on Bulgaria, and Honduras declared war on Germany and Italy.

In short, in the days after the Pearl Harbor incident, the whole world was in chaos, with the Allies and the Axis camps declaring war on each other.

It is worth mentioning that after Britain and the United States declared war on Japan one after another, Chongqing finally announced that it would declare war on Japan.

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Chen Qiang looked at the newspaper in his hand, and it was full of news that countries declared war on each other.

Suddenly, one of the declarations of war caught Chen Qiang's attention.

"China officially declares war on Japan? I read that right!" Chen Qiang blinked subconsciously.

"If we count from the 'September 18th' Incident, the War of Resistance has been ten years. Even from the 'July 7th Incident' in 1937 to the present, we have fought with the Japanese for four years. In the past four years, we have sacrificed so many people and occupied so many lands, and we have not declared war on Japan yet!" Chen Qiang shook his head incredibly.

Many people in later generations believed that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chongqing did not declare war on Japan immediately because it was to obtain foreign aid. Because the laws of many countries at that time generally stipulated that strategic materials or weapons should not be provided to warring countries, such as the US neutral law. In order to continue to obtain international aid, Chongqing did not declare war on Japan. Some people even said that Chongqing did not declare war on Japan, not because Chongqing was weak, but because the situation was forced.

But in fact, Roosevelt had already promoted the amendment of the neutral law since 1937, and later even cancelled the weapons ban, which did not affect the provision of materials and weapons to China at all. Moreover, in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China did not receive assistance from other countries except for donations from overseas Chinese. Western countries were not charitable, so why should they help you if they were not relatives or relatives? In the end, they finally borrowed some money from the Americans, and had to use tung oil, tin ore and tungsten ore as collateral. Therefore, they were worried that they would not receive international assistance after declaring war on Japan, so they could not stand the scrutiny at all.

So Chongqing is simply too cowardly!

The idea that Chongqing boss has been upheld for many years is to "make home peace first when fighting foreign wars". He is much more active in fighting civil wars than resisting invaders. If the Xi'an Incident had not forced him to the "Liangshan" of the anti-Japanese war, perhaps when the Japanese fought to Nanjing, he would still not choose to resist.

For the big boss in Chongqing, even if half of China has fallen, he is still hoping that the international community can put pressure on Japan, hoping that Western countries can help China and use the power of Britain and the United States to drive away the Japanese. Once China officially declares war on Japan, the space for Britain and the United States will be smaller.

Moreover, the big boss in Chongqing was also very worried that after officially declaring war on Japan, he would have no way out. The war must go all the way out, and it would be impossible to negotiate with Japan at that time.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Chongqing did not declare war on Japan is that the boss’s mind is not at all about fighting Japan, the boss’s hopes for Western mediation, and the boss’s third is that the boss’s concern is that if he cannot defeat the Japanese after the declaration of war, the peace talks will pay more bargaining chips.

Now, Britain and the United States have successively declared war on Japan, which has also strengthened Chongqing's courage. With the United States as a big backer, China has been fighting against Japan for ten years. It has been fighting with the Japanese for four years with real guns and artillery, and has finally joined the ranks of declaring war on Japan.

After understanding these things, Chen Qiang put down the newspaper helplessly and said to himself: "Why do I think Chongqing is relying on people's power! Britain and the United States do not declare war on Japan. You have been beaten by Japan for ten years and there is no movement. Britain and the United States declare war on Japan, and you will declare war on Japan the next day!"

At this time, Chen Qiang couldn't help but think of the third Changsha defense battle that was underway in China.

In this battle, the Chinese team dispatched 300,000 and the Japanese army dispatched 500,000, and finally ended with China's victory. 300,000 to 500,000, and finally won. It has to be said that the command ability of Chief Xue in the Ninth War Zone was really excellent, and he deserved the title of "Famous Anti-Japanese General".

The Ninth War Zone where Changsha is located is indeed the essence of the Chinese team at that time. They have experienced the baptism of the first two Changsha defense battles, many of which are even veterans who have fought the Songhu defense battle until now. After many baptisms, all those who survived are the most elite.

"The United States has joined the war, and the War of Resistance Against Japan is about to usher in a turning point. If you persist for another four years, the suffering of the Chinese nation will be over." Chen Qiang sighed lightly. He planned to find an opportunity to go to Washington again and take this opportunity to donate another money to the country.

However, at this moment, a noisy sound came from outside.

"Sir, this is a private place, you cannot enter without permission!" The security guard's voice rang.

"Is Chen Qiang inside? We are ia, the CIA!" said a mechanical voice.

Chen Qiang walked out of the room and saw three tall men in suits breaking in.

"What happened?" Chen Qiang asked.

"Are you Chen Qiang?" A man in the suit led by the leader looked at Chen Qiang with a cold face.

"Yes, I'm Chen Qiang. What's the matter with me?" Chen Qiang asked.

"We are ia, the CIA. You need to go with us." The other party's voice was still mechanical and cold.

Chen Qiang frowned slightly, and then he said, "I need to call my lawyer first."

"There is no need for this. It's useless for the lawyer to arrest the person we want to arrest." The other party said.

Chen Qiang felt that the visitor was not good, so his attitude became tougher. He said, "Three gentlemen, I don't know what happened, but I think three should know who I am. I need to remind you that I know many members of Congress, and I am also friends with President Roosevelt. If you want to take me away, it's best to give me a reasonable reason, otherwise, I think it's hard for you to explain in front of your superiors."
Chapter completed!