US Presidency
1941

It is actual collaboration so well calculated that all the continents of the world, and all the oceans, are now considered by the Axis strategists as one gigantic battlefield. In 1931, ten years ago, Japan invaded Manchukuo, without warning. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, without warning. In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria, without warning. In 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, without warning. Later in ' 39, Hitler invaded Poland, without warning. In 1940, Hitler invaded Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, without warning. In 1940, Italy attacked France and later Greece, without warning. And this year, in 1941, the Axis Powers attacked Yugoslavia and Greece and they dominated the Balkans, without warning. In 1941, also, Hitler invaded Russia, without warning. And now Japan has attacked Malaya and Thailand, and the United States, without warning. It is all of one pattern. We are now in this war. We are all in it, all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.