Whereas some Americans remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941, Adolf Hitler is reminded again and again: "What the fück was I thinking?"
Shortly after the Japanese attack, the U.S. entered World War II (and has never stopped fighting for very long since).
Hitler: "My first instinct at the time was to just let Japan fight the Americans without our help. But then I remembered the monumental ass-whooping that Jesse Owens gave us at the 1936 Olympics. That's what really got me 'fired up'. In retrospect, we should have just kept the United States out of the fight."
While it is not clear that the U.S. would have stayed away indefinitely, the example of Germany declaring war on the U.S. a scant four days later really ought to be required reading for every belligerent seeking world domination.
