Originally Posted by
rebeld
dude we started involvement in WWII in 1939...we werent directly fighting until '41. but we def had chosen sides in '39 and were doing everything except pulling the trigger.
only reason we werent involved sooner was because hitler was smart enough not to come after us until he had dealt with the UK, unfortently his table was moved forward because japan decided to provoke us.
actually we didn't declare war on germany until hitler declared war on us 3 days after pearl harbor...for no apparent reason. No one knows exactly why he did it, but he could have avoided it and we may have never landed troops in Europe or waited longer than we did to.