Do you think if the U.S. didnt engage in WW2 , America would be a diffrent place , either good or bad ?

Answer 1

This is one of those "what if" questions to which there is no real answer, obviously

.Would the US be a different place if we had not engaged in WW2? Sure. Obviously. But that would have meant that the Nazis would surely have conquered Europe, including invading Britain. Would we have been able to exist in a world, to paraphrase Lincoln, "half slave and half free?" How would we have been different as a nation if the Japanese had not attacked us at the same time as they attacked the European powers in the Pacific? Would we have been even more isolated and turned inwards for our economy? How would we survive as a democracy surrounded by military dictatorships in Asia and Europe?

So, yes. A different place. The world would have been a different place. Not better, probably much worse. Different , but leading inevitably to conflict at some later point down the line. We would most surely have come into political and economic, and finally, military conflict, at some point a few years later.

Answer 2

I think we would probably be near the same place actually. Although it is claimed that the United States lost its isolationist practice (separating itself from the outside world), the public has not. How many Americans know what is going on outside of the United States? People may claim that a lot do, yet, when news over Anna Nicole control the news is is clear that we are a society only concerned with ourselves and celebrities. The government has always been a mix between isolationist and forceful, it depends on who the president/congress is. Furthermore, it is a matter of- is it in the United States interest. Case in point: there is mass violence in Darfur, unlike Iraq which could cause problems if the oil wells are shut off, we ignore and become isolationist. Iran and the oil countries are important.

Answer 3

No way to know for sure of course, but the world would probably be worse off...

The Militarist Japanese Empire of the period might well have survived and dominated a large part of Asia.

In the west an absence of US troops might have allowed the Germans to win/draw against the Soviets and dominate Western Europe. Alternately Stalin might have Still beaten the Germans, but the absence of another major power might have resulted in him swallowing up Western Europe himself (I doubt the Brits alone could have stopped him.) Either way the world would likely be worse off.

Answer 4

Lots of ifs! If the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and we didn't respond, how much longer could we have avoided war in the Pacific? If we don't even support England with lend-lease, does Germany win there and subsequently in Russia? How long before we had to take on a much stronger German Reich? Could we still have won, alone, at that later date?

Yes, we would be a different country, mein Herr. And not a better one.

Answer 5

It would definitely be different and definitely be worse.

WWII got us out of the great depression. It also established us as a/the world power and so we were able to have more influence in foreign policies which further benefitted the U.S.

Answer 6

We would probably all be learning German in school, and goosestepping on the playgrounds, for if we hadn't entered the WWII, Germany would easily have held all of Europe, and the Soviets would have fallen to Hitler if he had been able to send all of his armies in that direction. .

Answer 7

Of course it would be different. We probably wouldn't be the superpower we are today.