Why did the US fight against Germany in WWII?

Question

Forget the Japs...with a powerful ally like a German dominated Europe the US would have had the edge over the Soviets and NASA would probably have got the first man in space with easier access to the V-2's and the German scientists.....

Answer 1

Well, the results were exactly the same: German scientists were helped into the US for the atomic bomb, so who needs the V2.
Germany has been reduced to nothing and forms no threat and the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. I think the US has made the right decision in fighting Germany and defeating the Japs in order to control the Pacific. Look at the Star Wars project, the Stealth, robot planes. It will be Terminator V soon enough. I think they have done quite some smart moves strategically.

Answer 2

You can't forget the Japanese in this question because it was the alliance between the Japanese and Germany that resulted in an automatic declaration of war against Germany after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and war was declared by the U.S. government against the Japanese. Once we had declared war on the Japanese, as the Germans were allies of the Japanese, we were at war with Germany as well. There is also the small detail that it was Hitler who was in charge of Germany and Hitler was a serious nut case. If you study military history you will see that Hitler was a joke when it came to military strategy - so much so that when Churchill was asked if the British should attempt to assasinate him he said "Why? He's the best strategist we've got!"

Answer 3

Technically speaking, because Germany for some strange reason declared war on the US after Pearl Harbour - possibly hoping that, in turn, Japan would declare war on the USSR (but this would have been unlikely because the Japanese had to choose between going either north or south. They decided to go for the south after their Army was severly mauled by the Russians (led by Zhukov, who went on to the whip the Germans) in Mongolia. Anyway, it was a mere technicality because the US was already helping the Allies a lot before PH (lend-lease, patrolling the West-Atlantic, occupation of Iceland etc) so their actual involvment in Europe was only a matter of time. And I can't imagine Roosevelt siding with Hitler at any rate.

Answer 4

Because the German 3rd Reich was an evil regime that threatened civilisation as we know it.

Britain and its US Allies have a great history of protecting the world from the excesses of the lunatic fringe countries.

A better question is why, after what the Germans and indeed the Japanese did, did we allow them to get their economic and military power back so quickly? And why why why does anyone buy a BMW? The company ONLY survived by using slave Jewish labour from camps such as Dacchau - when they could no longer work they died.

Answer 5

Yes the world probably would be a better place now if Germany and the US had become allies back then. But Hitler still would had to have been eliminated by one means or another. There is no place in this world for nationalism.

Answer 6

You have good points. Why do you think it took so much to get us into the war? I'd like to say that it was to help the rest of Europe but I really don't think you can just say "forget the Japs". For that generation it was like saying "forget 9-11" today.

Answer 7

Because as most americans like to forget it was settled by britain. do u think hitler would really hav kept that alliance with USA anyway, same thing that happened to the Soviet Non-agression pact. Not to mention the deluded japanese, did they examine the Nazi policy of destroying all non-aryan races, japan would have been next.

Answer 8

the US cares about protecting its relationship with britian at all costs, and generally, the US is a fan of human rights. the Germans at the time, weren't. (obviously the US cares a lot for the Jews, we're supporting Israel. but besides jews, the nazis were killing off lots of other groups, too. gypsies, blacks, gays, and anyone that looked at a nazi the wrong way, basically.)

(not that soviet russia was much better to its people, however they weren't sending entire races to people to camps to be starved, tortured or murdered. they were just starving people and not paying anyone but the government any wages.)

Answer 9

Germany declared war on the U.S., shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, probably in an attempt to get Japan to declare war on the U.S.S.R. At that point, the U.S. had no choice but to fight Germany.

Answer 10

Because if we hadn't, they woul;d have taken over Europe, Africa and Asia, then come after us.