How did America become involved in opposing the aggression of totalitarian dictatorsand find herself in WW2?

Question

Highlight the significant arguments for and against such initial involvement in resisting aggression, and explain President Roosevelt.s difficulties prior to the Pearl Harbor attack in pursuing a policy of aiding the Western allies.

Answer 1

FDR knew early on about the forces that were moving the world towards war. After war broke out he also knew that the US had to be involved, but there was a large portion of the US population who did not want to get involved in the war, but we did indirectly get involved through the Lend Lease program which provided war supplies to England to allow them to fight effectively, because they were the only European power left with enough of a military to stand up to Germany. FDR, knew, unlike most in the general population: and very much like what we're seeing today in the war on terror: some people "get" what not fighting the war would mean but many people "don't
get it", that there really wasn't an option to getting involved in
some way in the war. After Pearl Harbor all that changed,
thankfully and I say thankfully because just think what this world would be like now, knowing what we know now, if Germany
and Japan had won the war, and they would have if we had
listened to the people who said to not get involved in the war.
Again this is very similar to what we're seeing now except then after Pearl Harbor they knew what they needed to do and
now it seems we're leaning towards doing either nothing or
only the bare minimum which will only serve to make sure
that we never actually win and the conflict goes on indefinitely.
9-11 should have been our Pearl Harbor, and it was, for awhile, but we're losing our ability to continue fighting and many people don't realize or won't accept that, first: this is going to be a multi decade effort, they just don't want to hear that, or they don't want to expend the force and effort necessary to bring it to a swift conclusion, and second that we could very easily lose this war and all those freedoms that so many fought and died for just slip away while we're busy shopping or whatever and not paying attention.

Answer 2

America was initially neutral in the war, supplying weapons both to the Germany and to Britain and its allies. meanwhile Japan invaded Manchuria (China) which the U.S. did not agree to, and it was also period of low oil production inn the US. And so they decided to cease oil trade with Japan, to which Japan didnt take very well and even saw as a threat . With Japan's rapid developing economy and their high demand for Oil, she set her eyes on Malaysia and Dutch East Indies for their oil, but wanted to disable the US from intervening, and so attacked pearl harbor in 1941.And this is when the US joined. some conspiracy theories point out that US had already forseen the invasion of pearl harbor as they had cracked Japan's codes. And so used it as a way of getting peoples support into fighting the war.

Answer 3

During Roosevelt's administration, the US was trying to recover from the Great Depression. Foreign policy was basically Isolationism, we had too many problems here at home. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese propelled us immediately into the war with our Allies, helped the economy recover, but at the cost of thousands of lives. My uncle was in Iwo Jima, a decorated Marine. Thanks to the ultimate sacrifice of thousands of men and women, we do not speak German or Japanese. War is barbaric, but at times necessary.

Answer 4

Pearly Harbor! We were attacked by the Japanese and decided maybe we should quit trying to give peace a chance. His biggest hurdle was the yellow-bellied people who did want to offend anyone or risk lives of our soldiers.We only got in after we attacked on our soil. By then, Germany had devasted much of Europe.