Right-Winger VINCENT JAMES on Robert E Lee Statue, American Involvement in Both World Wars

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[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The U.S. navy was escourting British supply ships through an active war zone, and were patrolling and intercepting German U-boats

And after declaring formal war, the US sent 2 million and tens of thousands of bombers to attack Germany openly.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wasn't justifying Hitlers decision to declare war, I was simply providing the context in which he made that decision. Its not as if he just woke up one morning and decided to declare war on the U.S., just for the hell of it. There was already lots of tension between Germany and the U.S., and Pearl Harbor gave Hitler the justification he needed to turn it into open war. In retrospect, of course, we can see that this wasn't such a good decision.