[Doe Eyes]

...in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which had not attacked us.

Is that what happened?

We didn't declare war on Germany until after they declared war on us, on December 11, 1941. That would have been 3 days later.

[Dr. Nobel Dynamite]

Um, that's the point I was trying to make.

[Alberta's Child]

For one thing, I don't think the war resolution passed by Congress after Pearl Harbor was unanimous.

Secondly, the declaration of war was nothing more than a formal acknowledgement of something that had been going on for quite some time already. The U.S. was effectively at war with Germany long before December of 1941.

I also think the author's musings about the grand plans of Japan and Germany for North American conquest are pretty silly. Neither of those countries was remotely capable of even launching a single airstrike against targets in the U.S. at the time, let alone massing and transporting enough troops to occupy a country that was basically ungovernable at the time.