Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32272607-20191218202400/@comment-38730394-20191219122814

MartyMcFly05 wrote: So I don’t want to be that guy, but Japan attacked Pearl Harbor partly because it didn’t have any other choice. It was being blockaded and couldn’t invade the Dutch East Indies or British territories without America intervening, so it opted to surprise attack, hoping that America would be scared out of the war.

So should we say that happened instead? When Pearl Harbor happened, a bunch of American aircraft carriers were not in the harbor at the time and survived, so should we say that those carriers didn’t survive? Therefore, America would not have joined the war, because they did not have the strength at the time to wage war. They could then have rebuilt to their strength now. Well Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because it decided to invade south and go towards Australia, and then they got caught in a stalemate. If Japan has invaded north, into the USSR, the USSR might have fallen and America would not have entered the war.

So I think what he meant was that Japan invaded the USSR rather than continuing south past China, and therefore America wasn't in the war.