• gayhitler420@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    America joined the war in Europe to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism.

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      9 months ago

      Pearl Harbor may have also been a factor, but there is definitely something to that.

      America was hoping to grind them both to dust with each other. And largely that was successful. The Eastern Front was a hellscape of death.

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        9 months ago

        Pearl Harbor was a Japanese response to the American blockade and shipping operations in the pacific during the war.

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          9 months ago

          The tonnage war certainly started well before that. Lend Lease act to the USSR was in place for nearly a year beforehand even.

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            9 months ago

            That’s significantly different from putting boots on the ground in Europe which was going awful for America until Stalingrad and the point I was trying to make about Pearl Harbor was that the Japanese command knew it couldn’t beat America outright and was trying to establish the territories that would constitute the Japanese empire after the war ended.

            The pacific theater was Japan trying to get America to say “you know what? Fine! Have some little shitty islands!”