would america have joined in world war 2 if pearl harbour hadnt have happened?

Answer 1

Yes, we would have entered, just not as soon.

Answer 2

I'm not sure we would have. Earlier in the same year as the Pearl Harbor attack, German submarines had attacked two of our warships in international waters and we didn't declare war on them. One of those attacks happened less than two months before the Pearl Harbor attack with a large loss of lives. That ship was the USS Reuben James.
Gertmany's declaration war against the U.S. was prompted more by the "fine print" in the Tripartite Agreement (also known as the Axis Pact) then by Hitler wanting to take on the U.S. He was well aware, through reports from the American Bund and the Silver Shirts, that the U.S. was a formidable economic power.
But, overall, the Europeans should count themselves lucky that we did enter the war. Stalin's Red Army is the force which picked the bones clean of the vaunted Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe and nothing would have stopped a further western advance by them after the fall of Berlin. The British, along with Canadian forces, had come a cropper at Dieppe. So, the ability of the British Empire to secure the liberation of France by itself would have been a very dicey proposition. The only confusing thing I see in that scenario is a mental picture of French shopkeepers selling cabbage pies and tea in a glass to Russian soldiers encamped at Pas De Calaix. LOL!

Answer 3

yes the US would have become involved in the war. We had been supporting England and Russia with Lend/Lease, and escorting convoys of ships across the North Atlantic. We had given aid to the Chinese and had troops in the Philippines. Even though we were not engaged in shooting we were involved in the war before Pearl Harbor. There was much public sentiment against getting involved in a European war, but just like World War l, it was only a matter of time until we were a part of it.

Answer 4

Most likely not. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, most Americans were of the opinion that the war in Europe was a European problem and that the war in Asia was an Asian problem. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, it became a rallying cry for the nation.

Answer 5

Eventually

Answer 6

Yes while it may have taken a while longer the US would have never allowed Nazi Germany to take over the UK the US military was equiping and training for WWII 3 years before we acually got involved in it. The reason we didnt get involved in it earlier our military at the time was i'll equiped and we only had 6,000 officers to lead it.

Answer 7

A very good question, and one that is difficult to answer. I sincerely hope that we would have, but I don't know.
We should have entered the war against Germany sooner, actually. How could we stand by and watch Germany attack England, as they did?

Answer 8

Yes... Germany wanted to conquer the entire world. After Europe , it next wanted the USA and Canada.

Answer 9

the respond is 'sure'. FDR replaced into going to contain the U. S. in WWII by any capacity needed yet he did no longer % to combat the eastern. FDR suggested as for Congress to declared conflict on Japan yet no longer Germany or Italy using fact the the individuals and Congress does no longer have supported it. i could have enjoyed to be a fly on the wall of the White abode for the period of those hours on a similar time as they waited and questioned what the hell they have been going to do if Germany and Italy did no longer declare conflict on us.....

Answer 10

Yea, because were were already starting to build our army back up, and and starting to get industries to start switching to war time production. Pearl Harbor just sped it up and made us act sooner than planned

Answer 11

They would have eventually had to get involved or at least choose a side. They wanted to stay neutral as long as possible so they could continue to sell weapons and other wares of war to both sides, including many of Germany's U-boats.