How did U.S. neutrality before entry into WWI differ from neutrality before WWII?

Question

Specific examples would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Before WWI, the U.S. was largely open for immigration, so people from various European countries, from Italy to Norway and from Portugal to Russia, arrived to U.S. shores in large numbers, which offered many Europeans an escape from oppression, wars and revolutions. In 1922, the Congress passed the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which limited immigration, so Europe's escape hatch has closed, although not entirely.

Answer 2

Prior to World War 1, the US hadn't been in any European confict fought over seas. They didn't think it was their place to interfere. The US wanted to stay neutral at all costs because the US needed time to recover from many of the other wars it had gone through.

Before World War 2 however, the US wanted to stay neutral to avoid the amount of bloodshed they had experienced in the first world war. Also, the US was recovering from the Great Depression, and the US thought a war would cripple the economy even more, when really, World War II is was got the US out of depression.

Both WWI and WWII, the US were forced to take action, when a US ship was sunk. In WWI, the US lost a ship in the Gulf of Mexico area (can't remember, had this in December), but in World War II, the US was forced to war in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Answer 3

in WWI the Americans entered the war because a passenger ship called the Lusitania was attacked by a German sub a large number of Americans died, and that was considered murder and that sent them into the war against Germany. In WWII the Japanese wanted control of all the countries in the pacific region and it needed natural resources to supply its war factories, the US stopped trade with them so they wouldn't be helping them achieve their goal. that made japan angry and they planed to attack the US. they planned to attack Pearl Harbor, and they did, thats what they brought them into WWII.

Answer 4

Both were the result of an unprovoked attack where civilians were killed. As for the rest, don't know.