Hi Framer,
Hard to say. A U-Boat sunk the USS Kearney in US territorial waters in 1941, and all it provoked was an official protest. A lot of merchant ships were sunk the same way.
What did cause a storm was the presence of a team of German saboteurs who landed on the East coast from a U-Boat in 1942. These guys behaved more like tourists, visiting relatives in New York, before the two "leaders" decided to give themselves up. They were jailed, the rest were sentenced to death by a military tribunal (Roosevelt insisted on that), but didn't go to the chair till after the war.
Failing either of these events occurring, I'm at a loss to suggest what would have persuaded America to join the war.
Regards,
Gordon
[ 04. March 2004, 06:01 AM: Message edited by: The_Historian ]
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