tivo, you ol' jingo you, y'all never let me down.
Good thing the British developed the Spitfire, without which they surely wouldn't have won the Battle of Britain, without which all them P-51s and B-17s would have lacked bases with which to perform their wonders.
Good thing, too, that the Brits cracked the Enigma code, having managed to get their hands on one of the deciphering machines.
This was indispensable to winning the war, US or no US. (It was also a key to beating the Japanese.)
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There will always be the debate of what was known and when it was known.
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You wish. I think no serious student of history today doubts that Roosevelt knew an attack was coming and probably took measures to facilitate it.
Which isn't an excuse for Japanese militarism, aggression and general dastardliness. Without Pearl Harbor, Hitler -- and the Japanese -- would probably have won the war.