Why did Germany declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor?
Why did the Pacific and European conflicts need to be part of the same war?
The Germans were allied to Japan...
>>1319171
>Why did Germany declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor?
Because unlike the rest of Europe, Germany actually respects their alliances?
>>1319171
I know that Germanotard mind has troubles with comprehending basic things like "not stabbing everybody in the back on every possible occasion" but this was one rare occasion where Hitler kept his promise. He was allied with Japan, so he had to do it.
The USSR being in the war essentially connected the two theatres together.
>>1319577
He was under no treaty obligation to declare war on the US.
The reason is that the US was giving supplies to the Allies to help with the war effort, including the USSR. Hitler viewed the US as a mongrel nation ruled by Jews with no national identity and thought they wouldn't put up much of a fight. He put his ideology before practicality.
>>1319214
Japan and Germany were superficial allies and essentially fought two different wars in WW2.
>>1319559
See Romania.
Fag.
>>1320803
But Germany didn't turn their back on Romania? In fact, the Eighth Army defended Romania as best it could.
>>1319171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niiiHjIQu8s
Watch the whole thing if you want. It's very learningful. Don't mind background researching Hitler's arguments.
>>1319171
America was already an unoffical ally before 1942. Only their MASSIVE financial support kept the UK and UdSSR in the war.
>>1320625
>The reason is that the US was giving supplies to the Allies to help with the war effort, including the USSR
Also, you know, openly attacking German ships.
>>1320846
There was also the undeclared naval war against Germany by the United States. If anything it's amazing that war was declared in December rather than September.
>>1319214
is the left one thor gunderson?
>>1319171
Russia.
Even today, Japan is the lid on Russia's power. As so long as they (and now China/Korea) sit on the eastern frontier, Russia has to split it's forces. Likewise, in the 1940s Russia cannot into navies because of the Japanese problem a few decades earlier. So for Germany, stabbing the Japanese would mean a separate peace, certain defeat for the 'genetically inferior race' in the German mind, and a focused Russian front against their own troops. Better to keep the cats-paw and continue the blitzkrieg even if it means it woke the trans-atlantic giant.
Britain knew and demonstrated the strategic value of even an anemic 'inferior' Japan before WWI when Japan sunk the entire Imperial Russian navy in a single battle. It wasn't that Japanese sailors were naturally awesome; Admiral Yi of Korea demonstrated they weren't 'born to the sea' as magical sailors centuries before.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin
Britain simply tipped them off and down went the Tzar's military might and prestige along with several metric tons of steel.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima
That defeat was to make Imperial Germany think they could sucker punch the Russian steamroller in WWI but time proved that to be as unfounded as every other Russian invasion attempt. The best you can hope for when in a war with Russia is distraction and containment until internal pressures forces a civil war.
