US history: WWII: general oppinions of the time.?

Question

what was the general oppinion of the war from the US perspective before the war, during the war before we got involved, after Pearl harbor and up through the point in the war that we kicked Japan's *** (no offence if you are Japanese, but we kinda did)

please forgive my vugarity ig got excited...

Answer 1

Before the US entered the war (WW II) the majority of American public opinion was against entering the war.

Americans were not conscious of the great danger the Axis meant for the free world.

Only after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Germany first declared war on the US, did Americans realize how blind they had been over world matters. (very common)

Fortunately for the US, they had at the time president F.Delano Roosevelt who was well aware of the danger, that his people were not.
Because of this Roosevelt was considered a "Warmonger" eager for war.

More or less the same situation as how today Americans can´t see the danger of not confronting the new danger : "Islamic Terrorism" head on, and G.Bush is fully aware of it.

Answer 2

after the slaughter of WWI1 and the great depression the American public had no taste for war and they become isolationists and tried to deal with their own problems at home.when war broke out in 1939 the American government continued the isolation and felt Europe's problems were not theirs.but Roosevelt felt that assistance to British was necessary.on the Asian side after WWI1 japan was given a number of territories that were Germany's and this started the Japanese thought that they needed more to protect themselves from outside aggression.with the Chinese being taken over by the Japanese the Americans put an oil embargo in place .the Japanese felt that to expand further ,they would need to neutralize the American fleet at pearl harbor.but the Japanese made a huge mistake in that they had awaken " a sleeping giant" that would dictate foreign policy to this very day.It was at this point that japan went on the defense and the island hopping began.after the battle of Okinawa the American government had to decide on whether to invade japan with the cost of over 1 million lives to take the island or to use the atomic bombs.history will tell you that even to this day most if not all the worlds problems have come from the first world war"""""""WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN FROM THE PAST"""""

Answer 3

From the books I've read about that time period I get a sense that America really didn't want to be a part of the war, but had to at some point. And no I, being half-Japanese, don't take any offense because the Americans really did kick our butts and because we were foolish with our Pearl Harbor attack.

Answer 4

At 1st, USA followed its policy of isolationism.
During the war, many USA merchant ships (carrying supplies for Britain) were hunted and sunk by German u-boats. This and the Japanese attack on Pearl harbour changed the American thought.
3 important conferences were held: Teheran (1943) Yalta (1945) -Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill- and Potsdam (1945) -Truman, Stalin and Churchill (later Atlee)- to discuss the best ways of winning the war and of organising the world afterwards.
American bomber raids destroyed many Japanese cities, plus severe naval and land battles.
Then came the dropping of the attomic bombs to force Japan to surrender, even though the full effects of the bombs were not well known. Truman was the one who made the decision to use them.
The follow-up would be the start of the cold war (communism vs capitalism), and gradual decolonisation (self-determination) in some countries.

Answer 5

The US opinion before the war ----Europe's problem to deal with and the US was staying out of it completely.
In 1935,Congress passed the Neutrality Act, applying a mandatory ban on the shipment of arms from the U.S. to any combatant nation.
When World War II broke out in 1939, Roosevelt rejected the Wilsonian neutrality stance and sought ways to assist Britain and France militarily. He began a regular secret correspondence with Winston Churchill.
Congress, where isolationist sentiment was in retreat, passed the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941, allowing the U.S. to "lend" huge amounts of military equipment in return for "leases" on British naval bases in the Western Hemisphere.
The fall of Paris shocked American opinion, and isolationist sentiment declined. Both parties gave support to his plans to rapidly build up the American military, but the isolationists warned that Roosevelt would get the nation into an unnecessary war with Germany.
Roosevelt tried to keep Japan out of the war-in late 1940, he authorized increased aid to the Republic of China. In July 1941, after Japan occupied the remainder of Indo-China, he cut off the sales of oil. Japan thus lost more than 95% of its oil supply.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor killing more than 2,400 American military personnel and civilians.
After the war, the American people got tired of war , as proven by Cordell Hull Secretary of State, (1933-1944) in1944, "Patience! he said to the peoples of the conquered countries. The United Nations have no intentions but to help you establish strong, progressive popular, governments. But first must come stability and order."
"Patience! he said to the people of the U.S. Our power was limited. Blue prints for world organization cannot be drawn overnight. But the State Department is hard at work. "

Answer 6

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