• 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.