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Originally Posted by salinator
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Originally Posted by Jim O
Would the US have been dragged into the war in Europe, when, and how?
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As much as some suspect the Japanese attack to allow US entry into a war that involved Germany, the Germans were just as anxious to entend war to America. It was no secret that America supported Britain and would continue to support her. The first happy time of of the U-boats was over, and fully laden U-Boats departed by 18 December 1941 toward the US eastern seaboard for Operation Paukenschlag. Hitler declared war on US 11 December 1941, the U-Boat arm at least seemed to have been planning a war with the US for some time prior be able to implement a plan at such a short notice. |
There's no question about what you say, but Hitler's declaration was what brought the US into a declared war in Europe.
Would U-Boat activity alone have aroused enough feeling in the US so as to abandon its policy of staying out of the war?
If so, when US would have joined the war directly? Do you believe Hitler's unilateral December 11, 1941 declaration of war was planned and would have happened anyway? If the former, how long would the delay have been and what would the effect have been?