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Originally Posted by bookworm_020
Even if Germany hadn't declared war on America, there would have been a big increase in the supply of material to England, and with that, the risk of more AMerican ships being sunk by German U-boats.
An intresting idea from BasilY, but I don't think the American government would have taken the bait.
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What was FDR going to say when asking the Congress to declare war? "Even though Germany is fighting our common enemy the Japanese, we are going to declare war on Germany anyway, and keep helping England and Russia in their war against Germany because she invaded her neighbors and murder her own people..."
Cue Stalin, thinking about Finland, poland, the Baltic States, the purges, and the Gulags.
BTW, in December 1941, There was a pact between Japan and USSR as well. (After Zhukov administered quite a beating on them in a short border war.) What ever reason FDR had to declare war on Germany, can be used to declare war on USSR as well.