In WW2 the US was the first country that Germany formally declared war on, and was not required by its treaty with Japan, so thats an odd theory. https://en.wi

In WW2 the US was the first country that Germany formally declared war on, and was not required by its treaty with Japan, so thats an odd theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_war_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_war_during_Wor... People forget the democratic/political constraints on Roosevelt though, including Hitler who thought of it as normalizing relations but Roosevelt wouldn't have had the political capital for declaring war on Germany.