You know, it wa the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor. There is no evidence of German involvement, yet we went to war with them too. Didn’t this just distract from defeating the people who attacked us?
Two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, Germany (Adolph Hitler) declared war against the United States (December 9, 1941). Britain had been driven to exhaustion by the war but was holding off the Germans. We basically had no choice. It was fight or be destroyed.