United States Involvement In WWII
When the first World War came to an end, the world did not think that there would be more bloodshed than had previously been. After all that had happened in the First World War, why would any country want to join into a second one and lose many of their people? Why would the United States enter a war that is overseas again? Why would the United States want to get involved with everything that is happening overseas? What did the United States stand to gain? There are many questions that we can ask why the United States got involved in WWII, but the more important question to ask is, if the United States did not join the war at all, what would the world be today? In the 1930s, the United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to
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More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II. No one believed that the Japanese would start that war with an attack on American territory. For one thing, it would be inconvenient: Hawaii and Japan were about four thousand miles apart. American intelligence officials were confident that any Japanese attack would take place in one of the European colonies in the South Pacific, not American soil. Because American military leaders were not expecting an attack so close to home, the naval facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended. Almost the entire Pacific Fleet was docked around Ford Island in the harbor, and hundreds of airplanes were squeezed onto random airfields. To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor was impossible to pass up. Some historians and others went so far as to accuse President Roosevelt of having invited the attack, or at least done nothing to stop it, in order to bring the United States into the war against the Axis. However, later investigations indicated that, while United States officials had been aware that an attack by Japan was probable, they had no knowledge of the time or place at which it would occur. Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. As the war started for the United States, the Draft was put into effect and took many men from their families, and son from their parents. The United States reciprocated and declared war on Germany and Italy, thus finally putting the United States into World War
More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II. No one believed that the Japanese would start that war with an attack on American territory. For one thing, it would be inconvenient: Hawaii and Japan were about four thousand miles apart. American intelligence officials were confident that any Japanese attack would take place in one of the European colonies in the South Pacific, not American soil. Because American military leaders were not expecting an attack so close to home, the naval facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended. Almost the entire Pacific Fleet was docked around Ford Island in the harbor, and hundreds of airplanes were squeezed onto random airfields. To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor was impossible to pass up. Some historians and others went so far as to accuse President Roosevelt of having invited the attack, or at least done nothing to stop it, in order to bring the United States into the war against the Axis. However, later investigations indicated that, while United States officials had been aware that an attack by Japan was probable, they had no knowledge of the time or place at which it would occur. Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. As the war started for the United States, the Draft was put into effect and took many men from their families, and son from their parents. The United States reciprocated and declared war on Germany and Italy, thus finally putting the United States into World War