at what point do you think American entry into WWII became inevitable? why?

Question

any opinions?

Answer 1

It became inevitable when we cut off oil supplies to the Japanese. This left them with a limited amount which meant they had to take Indonesia to get the oil they needed. They knew we would never let them take it without a fight so they hit us with a preemptive strike.

Answer 2

Well, it became inevitable when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But the Lend-Lease act did aggravate the Axis powers a bit, which it was intended to do while simultaneously aiding Britain. If you really want to go into detail, the seeds of World War Two were sown in the 1850s when Commodore Matthew Perry became the first non-merchant outsider to set foot in Japan.

Answer 3

There was an undeclared, unpublicized war in the Atlantic Ocean between the US Navy and the German Navy in 1940-41, long before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lend-Lease and the abolition of the Neutrality Act more or less assured American participation in the European War.

Answer 4

As simple as it sounds, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Before then - though the U.S. was giving aid to Great Britain through the Lend Lease program and had - for example - "cut off" the petroleum trade with Japan - the country was isolationist in character (those who were adamently opposed to war to those who were "closet" fascists and other factions in between) and it virtually came down to a provocation against the nation to galvanize public opinion.

Remember, Hawaii wasn't a state, but the U.S. had a strong military presence on the territory.

Answer 5

On December 7th, 1941 when Japan performed her preemptive strike against the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, and on December 12th, 1941 when Hitler declared war against the United States.

Those two events broke America's isolationist policy.

Answer 6

The Bombing of Pearl Harbor.
They took a hit at us, it was our turn for revenge.
So entry became inevitable.

Answer 7

As soon as the USA broke neutrality.

At the moment when the USA decided to go into the lend-lease program and start sending supplies to Great Britain, from that point on the full participation in the war was indeed inevitable. If GB had been invaded, we would have gone to their assistance. If they remained free, we would send them supplies. It could have come out no other way even though Hitler wanted the USA to stay out of the war.