The Good War

Good War The Second World War is often depicted as the “Good War” because this war is where idea of democracy, freedom, and justice prevailed against the dictatorship of the fascist government, marking the beginning of the end of imperialism in the world. Despite the destruction, death, and devastation from the war. It also helped bring in a new world order; where the United States, wartime mobilization pulled the American economy out of depression, employing millions and granting American women the chance to experienced some freedoms unattainable in pre-war society. Placing the United States as a new and powerful state. It is widely taught that the good guys, or the Allies, won, and the bad guys, or the Axis, lost the war. Encouraging Americans to believe that the reason the United States went to war and the defeat of Germany and Japan was to demonstrate the virtue of the American Way, and the superiority of our country's form of government and society. It is widely taught that, when the United States entered the war, the GIs came to liberate Europe and Asia from the tyranny of the Axis powers; and that it was the only war where there was a clear distinction of good and evil. However, the realization that the Americans entered the war after suffering from the Great Depression is usually neglected. The United States did not enter the war as a powerful ally because they previously pursued a policy of isolationism rather than rearmament during most of the 1930s. The United States found itself, at first, completely unprepared to engage in combat with the military might of Germany and Japan. Where the turning point in the war didn't come until at the Pacific on June 1943, when American airplanes crippled the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. With the eventual victory in Europe in May 1945 and in Asia three months later, America was able to take a new position as a global superpower. Unfortunately one of the costs of winning the war was the lives of several