WORLD WAR II AND US INVOLVEMENT

World War II and US involvement

On the eve and the beginning of the Second World War the U.S. pursued a policy of isolationism, the essence of which was non-interference in the fighting. The Second World War was an armed conflict on a global scale, which lasted from September 1939 to September 1945.

While America was wallowing in neutrality and isolationism, events were occurring in Europe and Asia that were causing increasing tension across the regions. These events included:

Totalitarianism as a form of government in the USSR (Joseph Stalin), Italy (Benito Mussolini), Germany (Adolf Hitler), and Spain (Francisco Franco).

A move towards fascism in Japan.

The creation of Manchukuo, Japan's puppet government in Manchuria, beginning the war in China.

The conquest of Ethiopia by Mussolini.

Revolution in Spain led by Francisco Franco.

Germany's continuing expansion including taking the Rhineland.

The worldwide Great Depression.

World War I allies with large debts, many of which were not paying them off (Goldstein, 2004).

Since the beginning of the 2nd World War II in September 1939, the U.S. supported the European Allies against the Axis powers. In late 1939, Congress took part in the embargo regulations neutrality laws back, so France and Britain could be supplied with arms. In September 1940, the U.S. destroyers to Britain were drawn from 40 and received in return for long-term leases for naval and air bases on British territory.

The U.S. prevailed in the former Monroe mentality, which means that they do not interfere with anything that matters to them not to. The people in the U.S. had nothing to do with the outside world to the U.S.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the most influential presidents of the United States and is one of the most underrated politician of the 20th Century. On his election, he forged a close alliance with the Newspaper magnate William R. Hearst, with whom he could influence public opinion at the height of the Great Depression (Albrecht & Crawford, 1995).

During the First World War from 1914 to 1918, the Americans will still be tempted to join the fighting. This was a good thing, a final war for the world ready for a good democracy. Only the end they were not happy. They joined therefore not bound to the nation. It was still possible to do. It was an entire trip if you wanted to sail from Europe to America. But a half century later, America was a very strong and large country with responsibilities in all corners of the world. The beginning of the Second World War in 1939 saw the Americans again as an internal European conflict. Most Americans forests therefore nothing to do. And thus remain outside the conflict. But there were some who thought very differently, as the influential man Bernard Baruch, a friend of Winston Churchill. This letter had contact with Churchill that he was worried about this situation. This was also a friend of Bernard Baruch called Harry Hopkins, one of the assistants of the American President ...