U.S. Entry Into World War Ii

US ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II US ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II The United States entered the war for one main reason the attack on Pearl Harbor but a number of events led the United States to ally itself indirectly with Britain before the attack on Pearl Harbor despite its initial convictions to stay neutral. Events Before US Entry The United States ADOPTED POLICIES TO KEEP ITSELF FROM BEING FINANCIALLY and militarily INVOLVED WITH THE war. Since loans they had made to countries in Europe during World War I were not paid back they decide to prevent this from happening again. Japan did not formally adopt fascism, but the armed forces' powerful position in the government enabled them to impose a similar type of totalitarianism. The Allies trying to avoid war tried to appease Hitler by giving him what he wanted but that did not stop him he continued to expand. The attack on Ethiopia by the Axis resulted in a slap on the administered by the League on the Axis. A similar action was taken when Germany took the Sudetenland. The U.S passed three neutrality acts from 1935 -37 they prohibited actions by U.S. Citizens from aiding foreign belligerents. This was done so both sides would see them as neutral. The U.S. had severely impaired its ability to act against aggression by passing a neutrality law that prohibited material assistance to all parties in foreign conflicts (Encarta 97). The nation's moral climate was completely against Germany and Japan's actions but at this point they were not willing to go to war over it. Japan used the Mukden incident as a excuse to attack China despite the fact the League protested against it. In 1937 a boycott was set on aggressive nations. The United States took every means necessary short of war to impede the progress of countries with totalitarian dictatorships. They did this in order for democracies or at least more democratic governments to be set up in Europe. They did not want to become directly involved in the war but they sided with allies