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On December 11, 1941, just four days after Pearl Harbor, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini declared war on the United States. Although the Tripartite Pact did not require Germany or Italy to fight America, Hitler chose escalation. He believed U.S. industry would take years to mobilize and that openly joining Japan would demonstrate Axis unity and strength. Instead, the decision backfired catastrophically. With Germany and Italy’s declaration, the United States entered the war as a full belligerent on both the European and Pacific fronts. What Hitler intended as a show of unity instead transformed World War II into a truly global conflict and ensured that the Axis would confront a superpower whose vast industrial output, manpower, and resources surpassed the combined strength of Germany, Italy, and Japan, making a long-term Axis victory virtually impossible.