Jon Gabriel wrote:
> Woah.... did America get attacked by Germany and I missed it? We were
> attacked by Japan. We were *NOT* attacked by Germany. We had no need
> or reason to fight the Germans even then. We could easily have fought a
> one-front war with the Japanese and left the Germans to annex Europe.
> According to Jeroen's reasoning, we should have never bothered fighting
> against the Germans until they attacked us directly, on our soil. We
> weren't in direct danger, after all. Why should we care if the
> Europeans get slaughtered? We followed isolationism for longer than it
> was prudent and we probably paid for it in American lives, men and money
> fighting a Germany that was made more powerful by the European lands it
> had invaded.
Pearl Harbor happened, war between the US and Japan was declared, and then
Germany declared war on the US. Germany used their U-boats to disrupt US
shipping on the Eastern Seaboard.
At least, that's my understanding of events.
Julia
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