(B2431) wrote in message ...
From: "The Enlightenment"

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Whereas Germany was desperatly
trying to avoid confrontation with the USA.

Then why did Germany declare war on the United States 11 December 1941?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Prior to this not only was the USA trading extensively with the UK
(understandable) but was supplying the UK with vast amounts of arms
and munitions. (Many were wheeled across the border to Canada
however)

The USA not only supplied arms but Roosvelt had the USN escort the
Convoys with destroyers which protected then against the German navy.
U boats were being attacked and sunk.

Roosvelt did everything short of basing US forces in British soil to
provok the Germans and this at a time when most Americans were for
being steadfastly neutral.

The Case for Pearl Harbor Revisionism
http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vo...arlharbor.html

Under the terms of the armistice of 1917 the naval and trade blockade
was to be immediatly lifted against Germany. Inorder to force Germany
into harsh terms the terms of the armistice were violated. In that
period over 1 million Germans starved to death. That leaves a lasting
impression. The convoy war was nothing in comparison to this.