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You know we didn't really want to enter into WWII until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? and there wasn't huge support for it, either. Until we went to war w
by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
You know we didn't really want to enter into WWII until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? and there wasn't huge support for it, either. Until we went to war with Japan, the Nazi's hadn't actually declared war on the U.S. We had stayed isolationists post WWI and decided to let Europe and Asia "just kind of deal with it, themselves".
We weren't the world's police pre-1941 and had to be pulled into WWII kicking and screaming, not by some moral obligation.
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/us-public-opinion-world-war-II-1939-1941#:~:text=The%20Japanese%20attack%20on%20the,II%20against%20the%20Axis%20powers https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/us....
- landemva 4y agoUSA put embargo on Japan to restrict fuel imports. A response by Japan was expected after Japan economy was strangled. https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-%E2%80%9Cnoose-around-japans-neck%E2%80%9D https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-%E2%80%9Cnoo... USA doing embargo now, though on an energy rich country. Germany still eager to take that energy, though.