What led the U.S. into World War II?
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The US was led into WWII by the attack on Pearl Harbor, and if we had not entered the war, the Japanese would have continued into the US - there were already plans to attack Alaska.\nThe dropping of the atomic bombs, some believe was in part to shorten the war as the US would have had to deploy ground forces on Japan.  Another reason some believe the bombs were used was to keep Russia away.  Russia had began moving troops into Manchuria and were moving rapidly across the area straight towards Japan.  If the bombs were not dropped, Russia would have invaded Japan.
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Hitler used blitzkrieg, or lightening war.  He invaded so quickly and secretly that nobody had the time to resist.  He just rushed in and took Poland.  He tried following with attacking other countries, but some were not as easy.\n\nwww.wikipedia.org is a good place to look it up, but the site is down right now--technical difficulties (probably hacked).\n\nHere is a timeline that may help.  Start looking at 1939 and go up.\n\nhttp://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html
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There were two main places communists got involved in World War II.  The first, obviously, was Russia.  They were, ironically enough, our allies in the fight against the Nazis.  The second was the underground movements in occupied countries.  Since communists were banned by the Nazis, they already had a network of secret cells and communication systems.  They were the ones, after all, who invented the Molotov Cocktail and other guerrilla fighting techniques.  And there is no denying that some of them were very brave and took terrible risks in the underground fighting.  This also clearly gave them some key positions when the war was over, and they took maximum advantage of the fact.
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World War II: The Impact at Home\n\nThe quick fall of France to the German army in 1940 shook the strong pacifist sentiment of the American public. Suddenly, Great Britain alone stood between Nazi Germany and the United States. Once the United States was fully committed to the war in December of 1941, patriotism soared in American society. Americans' willingness to carry out blackout and civil defense drills; to recycle metals, paper, and even cooking fats; to work longer hours, but to have fewer consumer goods to buy with their salaries demonstrated the nation's strong support for the war. There were political changes as well, as the country began to shift to the right. \n\nhttp://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html\n\nWhat effects did WWII have on women in America?\n\nWomen began to do the jobs that the men used to do. They worked in factories, steel mills, and on fighter planes. A woman who worked in an industrial or manufacturing job was refered to as "Rosy the Riviter".\n\nWomen married earlier in life, had more children and relied much less on their husbands after the war. The divorce rate in the United States and Britain skyrocketed, compared to previous years. Women held higher paying jobs than in pre-war years, and this caused some conflict when men were discharged from the military and wanted their old jobs back, which were now held by women.\n\nWomen went into the workplace and never looked back. They took over factory jobs, drove trucks, flew military aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean to England, and numerous other jobs that had traditionaly been open only to men. Once the men returned from the war the women were more independant than ever and would never be content to sit at home again.\n\nWomen played the role of helping fabricate weapons and bombs and all the equipment the soldiers would need. Women never set foot on the battle field but they also were nurses and assistants and that helped alot since they needed medical treatments\n\nhttp://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_effects_did_WWII_have_on_women_in_America
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The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis Powers during the Second World War. During the war they were often called the United Nations, although that name now usually refers to the United Nations organisation they established after the war.\n\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, USSR invaded Poland from the East and on November 30 Soviet Union attacked Finland. The following year the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\nDates on which states joined the Allies\n \nWestern allies blue, Soviet allies red, Axis powers black over the course of the war.\n\n\n\n[edit] Following the German invasion of Poland\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September (included Indian Empire & Crown Colonies) \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n\n[edit] After the end of the Phony War\n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \nTannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June \n\n[edit] After the attack on Pearl Harbor\n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United States of America: 1941, 8 December \n Republic of China: 1941, 9 December \n Guatemala: 1941, 9 December \n Cuba: 1941, 9 December \n Czechoslovakia (Government-in-Exile) : 1941, 16 December \n\n[edit] After the Declaration by United Nations\n Mexico: 1942, 22 May \n Brazil: 1942, 22 August \n Ethiopia: 1942, 14 December \n Iraq: 1943, 17 January \n Bolivia: 1943, 7 April \n Iran: 1943, 9 September \n Italy: 1943, 13 October (formerly a member of the Axis) \n Colombia: 1943, 26 November \n Liberia: 1944, 27 January \n\n[edit] After D-Day\n Romania: 1944, 25 August (formerly a member of the Axis) \n Bulgaria: 1944, 8 September (formerly a member of the Axis) \n San Marino: 1944, 21 September \n Albania: 1944, 26 October \n Hungary: 1945, 20 January (formerly a member of the Axis) \n Bahawalpur: 1945, 2 February \n Ecuador: 1945, 2 February \n Paraguay: 1945, 7 February \n Peru: 1945, 12 February \n Uruguay: 1945, 15 February \n Venezuela: 1945, 15 February \n Turkey: 1945, 23 February \n Lebanon: 1945, 27 February \n Saudi Arabia: 1945 March \n Argentina: 1945, 27 March \n Chile: 1945, 11 April \n\n[edit] After the bombing of Hiroshima\n People's Republic of Mongolia: 1945, 9 August
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The main reason actually started back in World War II.  Because many of the richer nations of that time were heavily bombed caused those countries to put much of their resources into rebuilding.  America was the only capitalist nation that did not have to rebuild the country and that gave America a big head start.
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TONS!!! Where do you want to start...the Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq, Hawaii, the Whole of the Spanish American War....Not standing up to Hitler until we were forced into war....IRAQ - twice!
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Unofficially, the US was involved with WWII from the beginning, by sending supplies to the Allies.\nOfficially, in 1941.
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During the 1930s, Germany, Italy, and Japan tried to build world empires at the expense of others.  This resulted in a world war as other nations attempted to stop them.  World War II was the most destructive war in human history and became a turning point in history as is resulted in the division of the world into two competing political ideologies: Democracy and Communism.\n\nRise of Fascism\nFascism is the rule of a people by a dictatorial government that is both nationalistic and imperialistic.  Fascist are also anti-communist.  Fascism rose in Italy and Germany due to a severe economic depression that caused widespread poverty.  Benito Mussolini in Italy, and Adolf Hitler in Germany both promised solutions to these problems, and were able to win the support of the masses as they took absolute control over their countries.  Imperialistic goals in Italy, Germany, and Japan resulted in the start of World War II. \n\nThe War\nGermany, Italy, and Japan formed the Axis Powers and waged war against the Allies, composed of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.  The war was waged across the globe, with major battles taking place in Europe, North Africa, and various Pacific Islands.  War in Europe ended after the destruction of Germany in the Spring of 1945, and ended in the Pacific after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August of that same year.  World War II is a turning point because it marks the beginning of the Nuclear Age, and because it resulted in the creation of the two Superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States. \n\nRebuilding Japan and Germany\nRather than repeat the mistake made by the Versailles Treaty which severely punished Germany for World War One, the allies occupied and rebuilt Japan and Germany. During this occupation, democratic governments were established and infrastructure destroyed during the war was rebuilt. West Germany and Japan would go on to become very competitive economically, often being ranked and compared to the United States.\n\nColonialism Ends\nAfter World War Two, self-determination was extended beyond Europe to regions across the world. Former colonial possessions of European nations such as India and French Indochina became sovereign nations, establishing their own governments.\n\nDemocracy vs. Communism\nAfter the war, the United States and other democratic nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was a military alliance against communism.  The Soviet Union, which had gained control of most of Eastern Europe during the war, formed the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance against NATO.  This period of conflict between democratic and communist countries is known as the Cold War.  The two Superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, dominated world events for nearly 50 years after the end of the war.
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Arguably, by the Brits and France not standing up to Hitler when he made territorial demands on Czechoslovakia.  The "official" start in Europe was when Germany crossed the border into Poland (followed quickly by the Soviet Union attacking from the east.)\n\nSome historians say the start of WWII was when Japan invaded China in 1935.
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Japan entered WWII because numerous world powers were going to impose economic and resource sanctions against them.  The sanctions were going to be put into place becuase of Japan's war on China.  The Japanese took this very seriously as an act of war and went on the offensive first.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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how world war one led to the economic depression in the 1930's and how that later led to world war two
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World War 2, was won by the allies, Due to their ,Unity, Discipline, &Superior Weapons, Training, STRATEGY,& Courage.\nAlso due to the ULTIMATE ISOLATION, of GERMANY, & THE fact that the GERMANS, tried to fight on SO MANY FRONTS, SIMULTANEOUSLY.
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The wartime allies (the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain) began to quarrel as soon as the Nazi threat lessened.\nThe Americans and British decided to postpone questions about the makeup of postwar Europe.\nStalin, however, wanted decisions made with regard to postwar borders.\nThe Big Three at Teheran (1943) decided to launch an AmericanBritish invasion of Hitler's empire via France, and a Soviet invasion of eastern Europe.\nAt the Yalta Conference (1945), the Allies decided to divide Germany into occupation zones.\nIt was also agreed that Germany would pay heavy reparations to Russia.\nStalin agreed to declare war on Japan after Germany was defeated.\nThe Yalta Compromise over eastern Europe broke down almost immediately.\nAt the Potsdam Conference (1945), Truman demanded free elections throughout eastern Europe, but Stalin refused.\nStalin believed that eastern European states must not be anti-Soviet.\nHe feared that free elections would result in possibly hostile governments on his western border.\nShort of war, the United States could not really influence developments in eastern Europe.\nWest versus East\nTruman cut off aid to Russia because of Stalin's insistence on having communist governments in eastern Europe.\nBy 1947, many Americans believed that Stalin was trying to export communist revolution throughout Europe and the world.\nThe Marshall Plan was established to help European economic recovery; the Truman Doctrine was meant to ward off communist subversion with military aid.\nThe Soviet blockade of Berlin led to a successful Allied airlift.\nIn 1949, the United States formed an antiSoviet military alliance of Western governments, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); in return, Stalin united his satellites in the Warsaw Pact.\nIn 1949, communists won in China.\nIn 1950, when communist North Korea invaded the south, Americanled UN troops intervened.\nThe American General MacArthur wanted to invade China but President Truman said no and fired him; in 1953 a Korean truce was negotiated.\nThe Western attempt to check Stalin probably came too late and may have encouraged Russian aggression.\nThe Western renaissance\nA divided and economically weak Europe made a huge turn-around within a generation after 1945.\nThe postwar challenge\nThe war left Europe physically devastated and in a state of economic and moral crisis.\nFood rationing was necessary.\nRussia's border had been pushed west, as was Poland's; thus, many Germans were forced to resettle in a greatly reduced Germany.\nAll the Allies treated Germany harshly.\nNew leaders and new parties, especially the Catholic Christian Democrats, emerged in Italy, France, and Germany and provided effective leadership and needed reforms.\nIn many countries, such as Britain, France, and Italy, socialists and communists emerged from the war with considerable power and a strong desire for social reform.\nThe Marshall Plan aided in economic recovery and led to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC); military protection was provided through NATO.\nLed by West Germany, a European economic miracle was underway by 1963.\nAmerican aid helped get the process off to a fast start.\nEuropean nations adopted Keynesian policies to stimulate their economies.\nUnder Erhard, Germany adopted a freemarket economy, a social welfare network, currency reform, and price controls.\nUnder Monnet, flexible planning and a mixed state and private economy brought rapid growth to France.\nGreat potential demand (for products such as refrigerators), abandonment of protectionism, and the creation of the Common Market stimulated the economy.\nToward European unity\nDemocratic republics were reestablished in France, West Germany, and Italy.\nThe Christian Democrats wanted a unified Europe, but economic unity proved to be more realistic than political unity under the Council of Europe.\nThe sixnation Coal and Steel Community marked the beginning of a movement
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I think you will find most of what you are searching for here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#World_War_I_and_II\n\nGood Luck!!! :-)
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United