why did u.s join the fighting in WW2?

Question

i want the real reason not just pearl harbor

Answer 1

Japan declared war on US, Germany declared war on US, a few days later.

... Duh??!!!

Answer 2

We joined the fight way before pearl harbor by supplying the British. The real reason for going to war was that sooner or later the United States would be squashed between two great powers (Germany on the East and Japan on the West) if nothing was done to stop them. We couldn't hold them off by ourselves, and Hitlor mentioned a conquering of the U.S. after Britain. Pearl Harbor just gave us the "reason (excuse)" to go to war and kick ***.

Answer 3

The attack at Pearl Harbor is the real reason. Prior to this the US was attempting to stay out of the war in Europe and Asia. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor Hitler declared war against the US and between the two our hands were forced.

Answer 4

The real physical reason was the attack on Pearl Harbor and the fact the Germans declared war on the U.S. shortly after (Dec 11th). Underlying reasons are many and mainly revolve around the Japanese expansion in Asia more then the Germans. You have to remember that the death Camps were not a known factor at that time so the U.S. population was more concerned with the Japanese. America had retreated into isolationism after World War One, a large contributing factor to Hitler's rise to power because the English were not interested in keeping the French from really punishing the Germans after World War One which led to the financial problems in Germany and the resentment that led to Hitler's rise. FDR wished to help the British and did many legal things to ensure things were done to help them-Lend Lease and allowing American warships to accompany and defend convoys from U.S. shores to the Iceland area but knew that the majority of the population was hiding their heads in the sand and would not re-elect him if he started a war.

Answer 5

Since invading mainland China and French Indochina in 1940, Japan had been subject to increasing economic sanctions by the United States, Great Britain and Netherlands, and was attempting to reduce these sanctions through diplomatic negotiations. In December 1941, however, the war expanded once more when Japan, already in its fifth year of war with China, launched near simultaneous attacks against the United States and British assets in Southeast Asia; four days later, Germany declared war on the United States. This brought the United States and Japan into the greater conflict and turned previously separate Asian and European wars into a single global one.

Just read the whole story!!!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ww2

Answer 6

Because of a multitude of factors ranging from social, economic to political. Pearl Harbor was just the excuse needed to get into the war without looking like we wanted to.

Answer 7

Before WW2, america had continued it's isolationist foreign policy, avoiding 'entangling alliances'. When the nazi's stormed through Europe, Americans did not want a war, When japan invaded the pacific, Americans did not want a war. Rather, America stood to gain a lot commercially (and did!) from a world war that it was not part of.

It took the attack on an american naval base to bring America into the war, once in the war America was in a better situation to listen to the plight of europe and assist them- But it didn't until Crazy Hitler actually declared war on america.

The attack brought the threat to the Americans, and it was only then that the danger of a Nazi Europe and a Japanese Pacific towards America was realised and America went the hole hog and brought total and utter capitulation to it's war-fatigued enemies.

Answer 8

Well the biggiest reason is because we were attacked at pearl harbor. That forced us into the war. However we were already leaning into helping out against Germany, and I believe that Japan was trying to hit us to take us away from the Germans...(for the Germans)

Answer 9

Oh, you mean you want some sort of made up thing, like a conspiracy. Sorry, Bunky, but I won't give you that. The REAL reason the US joined the fighting in WWII was the attack of the Imperial Japanese on Pearl Harbor. We declared war on them on Dec. 8, 1941 and on Dec. 11, the Nazis declared war on us and we returned the favor. FDR wasn't "in" on something with Bush's grandfather; we were attacked--plain and simple.

Answer 10

Well, Pearl Harbor was the main reason, but there was also the telegram sent to Mexico trying to get them to attack the US to 'keep us busy' while Hitler pounded Britain (though we hadn't been fighting, we had been sending tons of supplies), and later Russia, and the Japanese spread throughout southern Asia. After we intercepted that telegram, it was obvious that WWII wasn't just a European war. Hitler had just proved that he planned on attacking us if he won the fight in Europe and Russia, and with all the natural resources he would acquire in Russia and Africa, he very well could have succeeded in an invasion of the US if aided by Japan.

The Japanese were in a vice though, because we had begun to refuse to sell them oil and metal for use in their war machine. The irony of the situation is that almost all of the bullets that killed American soldiers in the Pacific were made of American metal.

Answer 11

ARE YOU KIDDING?????? READ A BOOK OR AT LEAST GOOGLE WW II AND READ ABOUT IT.

The Japanese flew fighters across the South Pacific and killed 2400 people bombing our ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on an early Sunday morning. December 7th, 1941.

My Daughter in Laws own Paternal Grandparents were slaughtered in the Philippines by the Japanese. Shot dead while crossing a river trying to escape them.

Do your homework.

THE REASON IS THE JAPANESE HATED AMERICA AND AMERICANS. Any time the Enemies come to our soil we will be in a war.

But we finished it by dropping an A bomb on Hiroshima and when they still wouldn't surrender, three days later we dropped another one on Nagasaki, then they surrendered.

War is not always logical. Of course it was clearly fought on two fronts, the South Pacific with the Japanese and Northern Europe and Hitler.

They have actually found German submarines off the coast of the northern US. Frightening!!