Did America come in to the end WW2 or did America cause the end of WW2?

Question

America came late into WW2, so was most of the fighting already done or was it still going full blast?

Answer 1

Interesting question as you pose it. The war had been going on for awhile; however, without Americ'as interevetion, it would have gone on a lot longer. The outcome was still in doubtwhen America entered the war.

Answer 2

The fighting was still going full blast. In fact at the time the US entered the war things were not looking good for the Allies, they were facing the prospect of losing.

The war lasted from 1939 to 1945, the US joined at the end of 1941, so the war was only about a third way through. US participation shifted the balance of power. The massive resources that the US could bring to the war made the difference in the outcome. By no means did the US win the war solo, but they were a major contributor to the end victory.

Answer 3

The USA became involved in WW2 after the Japanese bombed Pearl harbour in December 1941.

Prior to that the US had been helping the British by providing weapons and supplies to help fight the Germans.

In 1944 the British, US and other allies attacked Hitlers "Fortress Europe" in the D Day landings. The war in Europe ended in May 1945 when the allies reached Berlin and the USA forced an unconditional surrender from the Japanese in August 1945 by using nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 4

The US entered the war in 1941. At that time the Germans were at the gates of Moscow, They were in command of North Africa except for Egypt. The Japanese have attacked and started taking many Pacific Islands and Australia and half of Papa New Genia. The US became involved in the war at full blast. The US was the country that broke the Axis power with good weapons and the large number of trained men. The US had been suppling the Allies with their weapons but now they were doing it on a big scale. The US was the Biggest player in the Pacific. The British win the Battle of El Alamain using the M4 Sherman from the US. Without the US the War would have been etheir longer or victory of the Axis.

Answer 5

US troops were marching down their troop ship gangplanks at Liverpool Docks in 1942 - about January of that year. D-Day was June 1944 the war in Europe ended 1945. etc. The fighting both in Europe and the Far East was by no means over when the Americans entered the war. Indeed, some believe had the Americans simply gone to war with Japan, then in all likelihood UK would now be part of the Greater 1000 year Reich.

In actual fact, the Americans were already in the war from early 1940 on when US Navy ships escorted British merchant ships across the Atlantic as far as Iceland, from there the Royal Navy took over the duty of escort.

The American code breakers were already hard at work at Bletchly Park here in England helping the Brits to break the Nazi Enigma Codes - done that too.

On VE night, the pubs in London stayed open all night, everyone got drunk and pubs ran out of beer.

Answer 6

They came in after Pearl Harbour during 1943 the war was still going full blast, they a had a hand in ending WW2 along with the other allies.

Answer 7

They resolved the issues and got rid of the worst dictator on the planet (and some of his friends)... They nevertheless left us with Stalin, Hiro Hito and Franco... They could have finished the job!

Russia was at war with Germany and Japan. Japan was massacring the whole of Asia.

Nevertheless in a war, often the worse memories don't come from the fighting, but from the conditions the people have to live in, mostly in occupied zones, where morale is not even there to cheer anyone up.

In that matter, the worse of WW2 was going on when the US joined: the Holocaust.

Answer 8

difficult to answer without patriotic feelings coming into play. The study of history is all about being objective. it is worth considering the role that hitlers invasion of the ussr played. by 1944 there was no real way for germany to replace the loss of its veterens on the eastern front. Russia on the other hand was learning from the conlict and growing stronger by the day. the us's intervention certainly sped things up, but maybe their supplies and aid would have been just as effective? thats a question that will remain unanswered, and is also the beauty of history, you only ever deal with the 'what if's'!

Good question though!

Answer 9

America entered the conflict when Facist regimes of and Stalin breached the geopolitical region of Europe and made moves toward Great Britain. Remember France was not united in its feelings pro or con Stalin and Hitl**(for some reason Yahoo is editing out his name) until those forces wreaked havoc in France proper- that event caused the great growth and excelaration of the Resistance movement. France did not make great efforts to protect its African colonies. Emperor Salasi of Ethopia was trying to affront Germany and Italy's movements into the African quadrant. The immenence of Germany and Italy, to a lesser degree, conquering France (which they pretty much did) and then moving forward through Great Britain is what spurred the US to get involved. Probably about 2/3 of the actual battles were over and Germany with the aid of Italy was completely succeeding not just in Western Europe but also in Eastern Europe, which is where the war began. The clarity that Germany's efforts were not those of a regional conflict but of a geopolitical battle - Hitl**'s quest was an empire larger than Alexander's-finally got the US to make a move. And considering the land mass he conquered, Hitle** 's empire would have been much vaster.Certainly the war would have ended very differently if the United States did not get involved, and it was US involvement that really sparked the resistance movements in European nations that had become dom*nated by ** 's Germany. So yes, the US got involved late in the game but without US intervention WWII probably would have not ended for another decade until Hitl**r's troops had conquered the Africas and Asia.

Answer 10

WW2 generally is held to have been fought in the time frame of 1939-1945. The USA entered the war in 1941. At that time the war was not close to being won by either side. The Allies were glad to see the US enter the war as it added the industrial might of the US into the war. This industry greatly improved the allies changes of winning the war.

Answer 11

They must not be teaching History in school anymore.

First; the Japanese invade Manchuria in 1931; causality of which becomes a major invasion of China, and the rest of Asia. In 1937 Capt. Claire Chennault (retired US Army Air Corps) was invited to China to survey the Chinese Air Force; and to create the Flying Tigers.

Germany invades Poland in 1939 marking the start of WWII Europe.

The US was supplying the Chinese Air Force with P-40 Warhawks (which the Chinese purchased), and the American Volunteer Group formed the backbone of the Chinese air defense against the Japanese. The Flying Tigers were mostly American Pilots including the likes of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.

Lend Lease supplied Europe (both Great Britain and the Soviet Union) with war material. Starting with Britain as early as 1939 under the guise of Cash and Carry, it was greatly modified in 1940. The Soviet Lend Lease began in June of 1941.

With the completion of the Alaska Military Highway; a project deemed of National Security after the Japanese invaded Attu and Kiska Islands of Alaska, delivering war material became a more protected project than thought possible. Prior to the Alcan, Aircraft followed the Northwest Staging Route to the north, and eventually to the Soviet Union.

Nazi Germany declares the convoys from the US headed for Europe, fair targets, and begins a campaign of sinking US freighters and thus killing US merchant marines.

The Japanese openly bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 at 7:53 am, without a formal Declaration of War. On December 8, 1941 The US and Great Britain declare War on Japan (with FDR delivering his "...date which will live in infamy" speech). On December 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

So the United States had been "in" the war from its beginnings.

We all know the rest. D-Day, and the end of Fortress Europe.

Hiroshima, and Nagasaki the end of the Japanes Imperial Army, Navy, and Air Force and the surrender of the Islands of Japan.

Where were we if not in the thick of it all from beginning to end? How could the Island of Britain withstood the onslaught of the Wehrmacht, and of course the Luftwaffe, but for the US?

Did we contribute to the Soviet success in repelling the Nazi invasion? Duh... It was US warplanes that provided bomber and fighter protection against the German air and ground forces. It was US munitions that filled the artillery, and rifles of the Soviet citizen soldier. All the while Stalin was posturing of how the Soviet Union would one day destroy the US.

During the European build up of US forces, the tabloids in Britain screamed "Yankee go home." Seems we weren't welcome by the elite few of Britain, yet the people on the ground were more than grateful for the living sacrifice of US servicemen and women.

Did the US accomplish all of this alone? Oh pleaseeeee. No one with an ounce of intelligence would ever claim that; that same ounce would also have to state that without the US, we would be living in a whole different world.

Britain would have fallen somewhere near the end of 1942. The Soviet Union would have taken years more time to push the Nazi war machine back, if they could have done so at all. The Nazis now have time to develop their jet age aircraft, the ME-262; and more dramatically, their heavy water project (the atomic bomb).

Maybe a moment of thanks to truly the "greatest generation"; not just US, but British, Soviet, Free French, Poles, Aussies, Canadians, and the rest of the free world who defeated the greatest terror threat in modern history.