J. van Baardwijk wrote:
However, Japan was on the same side as Germany. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, AFAIK there weren't any US troops in Europe, fighting the Germans. If Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, thus getting the US really involved in the war, would the US have done anything, or would they have considered it "their problem, not ours"?While the US was more-or-less remaining neutral wrt Germany, they had definitely been supportive of Great Britain on many levels. It seems to me that the US was always edging closer to involvement, and there is no doubt that Churchill was manipulating everything he could find to make it happen sooner rather than later. 7-12-41 just made it happen sooner...
This is not an attack, BTW, but a genuine question about the views of the US government prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Cheers
Russell C.
(sorry, I suppose thats 12-7-41 if it happened in Hawaii isn't it)
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