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Hehehe. Trick question. Yes, the US declared war on Germany because Germany declared war on it. It was a couple of days before they did it, and another day before the US declared war in return. That shows how isolationist the country was. The US hadn't decided whether to enter the European war when Hitler decided the issue for us. It is still an open question of whether we would have declared war on Germany if Hitler had decided not to declare war on us. In retrospect can you imagine any other decision? In 1941 the answer was not obvious.
So how did the US come to enter the war with a draft still in effect and who was responsible?
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