Question

What is a central idea in Roosevelt's "Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War"?

The United States needs to go to war, though it is uncertain whether it can win a war with Japan.


There was no response to the latest American attempts to keep peace in the Pacific.


Diplomatic negotiations with Japan were going well, and Roosevelt hopes the conflict will be short-lived.


Diplomatic negotiations with Japan fell apart recently with little warning.

Question 2
Part B

How does Roosevelt develop the central idea cited in Part A?


Roosevelt mentions a series of exchanges between the United States and Japan over a period of time.

Roosevelt suggests that Japan had intended to attack even while supposedly maintaining peaceful negotiations.

Roosevelt mentions a negative reply to U.S. negotiations arriving one hour after Japanese air squadrons had started bombing.

Roosevelt states plainly that there was no response to the latest U.S. diplomatic communication.

Answer 1

part A: There was no response to the latest American attempts to keep peace in the Pacific.

part B: Roosevelt states plainly that there was no response to the latest U.S. diplomatic communication.

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Answer 2

part a is c. part b is c also.

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