The Reason the United States of America Entered WWII

Reasons why the United Sates of America entered WWII

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Introduction

World War II has often been described as the most destructive enterprise in the history of humanity especially in terms of the material resources and human lives that were invested in the war . The actual date for the beginning of this war has been largely disputed with some scholars relating it to the Japanese conquest of Manchuria in 1931 and others to the Sino-Japanese war that followed in 1937 . But these conflicts cannot be

classified as global wars and merely took place between two Asian powers . The most widely accepted date is September 1939 , when Germany invaded Poland , an action that dragged Great Britain and France into the conflict after only two days because of the guarantees to Poland . A series of aggressions preceded WWII and the League of Nations formed to promote peace after WWI did little to stop the aggressions . When in 1939 Germany invaded Poland , France and Great Britain decided to take action and on September 3 , 1939 , war was declared on Germany , marking the beginning of WWII . The United States at first chose to take a neutral position as it had in WWI and although most Americans favored a Franco-British alliance , most of them were also very strong isolationists . But when Germany defeated France in 1940 and began bombing Britain , President Franklin D . Roosevelt persuaded congress to make changes in America 's neutrality laws

Reasons why the United States entered the war...