How do you think it would be if...

[August]

Originally Posted by Lt.Fillipidis

Platapus said it all!
Actually, USA declared war on the Axis. Given the offensive stance that USA held towards Japan before the war, it was bound to have retaliations.

What offensive stance towards Japan would that be? And for the record Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on December 11th 1941.

[IanC]

Originally Posted by August

What offensive stance towards Japan would that be?

I thought everybody knew about the economic squeeze the US put on Japan... here's one of many sources. http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930

edit: I just carefully read that article, I'm not sure I can fully agree with some of the authors wording or that "the leaders in Washington knew about the Pearl Harbour attack in advance"... but the general idea is there.

Maybe a better link: http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=137