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Why did America care that Germany declared war on them?
I think because of German uboats hunting in the Atlantic. They were attacking so close to the US coast there were cases where ships could be seen exploding and sinking from Manhattan at night.
It was the German uboats sinking US ships that was a factor in them joining WW1.
In particular the sinking of civilian ships, such as the Lusitania.
As an Aussie I often forget about the Atlantic because our world map is always Asia centered.
Nevertheless, why did Germany bother? It isn't like they planned to invade USA did they?
The yanks were sending supplies to the UK. Without it the brits would have run out of food, oil and ammo.
It was called Lend Lease
TIL.
And this from Wikipedia...
Stalin told Nikita Khrushchev that Lend-Lease enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Germany.