Question

The event reported in this dispatch led directly to -

Answer 1

Answer:

Do not see the copy of dispatch in question.  But if it is "Japanese Surprise Attack Pearl Harbor".

The answer would be:  US entry into World War II.

Explanation:

FDR would ask for a declaration of War on December 8, 1941.

My father was at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941.  Sailor on the USS Maryland BB-46 moored on battleship row.