If you were to go and get one of those books you've read, would it say that Japan invaded Manchuria in 1928?
Would it say that the U.S. declared war on Germany the day after declaring war on Japan?
Would it say that Ireland was one of our allies?
Would it say that Japan & Germany had plans to invade the continental United States?
The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931.
Germany declared war against the U.S. on December 11, but I don't know when we declared war against them. I have an impression that we declared war on Germany very soon after declaring war on Japan, but don't know the date.
I would not have assumed Ireland was in WWII with us. Maybe they like to think so nowadays.
I do remember reading about Japan attacking Alaska and occupying Sitka or some place like that for a while, and sending a trial of some type of bomb or something that landed in Oregon.
And they were definitely trying to invade Australia, which was what the Battle of the Coral Seas was a part of as I recall.
And I do remember reading about German Nazi cells in the U.S. which were part of the long term plan to dominate the U.S., if necessary by invasion in the future.
Most books in school today star out with U.S. History and my three moms