Explain how the US moved from a feeling of isolation to war in both Europe and the Pacific?

Answer 1

Short answer: Pearl Harbor.

Longer answer: The US had a lot of isolationist feeling in the 1920s and 1930s - the US hadn't joined the league of Nations, had passed a series of neutrality acts, and held hearings on the causes of WWI that laid much of the blame on munitions businesses and banks trying to get the US to go to war so they could get their money back or guaranteed. However, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others strongly felt that the US should be helping out England especially against the Nazi onslaught. The US ultimately passed laws providing aid to England which snuck around the neutrality acts that had been passed, most notably the Lend-Lease Act. When US ships, and later military vessels that were escorting them, were torpedoed and sunk by the Germans, that helped move the US closer, and the assault on Pearl Harbor clinched it. The US declared war on Japan, and Japan's allies Germany and Italy declared war on the US.

Answer 2

there was never a feeling of isolationism, it was neutrality......however the u s was secretly supporting the british, then the planes bombed pearl harbor and it was total war...........into it with japan, so help the allies on the european theatre

Answer 3

mr_ is right; the US didn't want to get involved, though Europeans wanted its help. But Japan's attack on US soil showed there was no getting out of it.

Answer 4

Study up on what reform drunks do and how long it takes them to fall off the wagon. It'll tell you everything you need to know.