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After Pearl Harbor, FDR had a huge problem. He needed to help Churchill and Stalin fight Hitler and Mussolini, but Japan had attacked, and America would be loath to spend precious recourses against Hitler while Japan was attacking. Fortunately, Hitler did him a huge solid and declared war a few days later. But what if he hadn't, hoping to divert America's attention to Japan? How much trouble would it have caused FDR? Would Germany have done better? Japan worse? How would the world be different?
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