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Revelation34 posted...

Germany declared war on America because did their alliance with the Japanese.

As much as Germany did declare war on the US, that really didn't amount to much beyond "we're going to torpedo some of your transatlantic boats now." Germany was not in a position to mount an offensive of any sort on American soil (neither was Japan, really, but Japan at least was only fighting on one front before they attacked the US, whereas Germany was already pretty close to surrounded), and likely never would have reached such a point even if the American forces hadn't started fighting them on the western front (it's likely that the Soviets would have been able to defeat them, especially with America distracting the Japanese, though then the Soviets would probably have ended up occupying a much larger portion of Europe when the dust settled).

EchoBaz posted...

most of our presidents were anti-semetic

Really, that was true of most of Europe as well (replacing "president" with the appropriate term, of course). It's why Hitler was able to get away with so many antisemitic policies leading up to the war. The rest of Europe didn't go to war with Germany because the Nazis were mistreating Jews, they went to war with Germany because Germany kept taking over European countries. And then everyone discovered just how bad the Holocaust was and they were all like "I just wanted to be mean to the Jews, not torture and exterminate them" and immediately started decrying antisemitism in all its forms in an effort to distance themselves from that horror.